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Stalin’s Ghosts

Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature

Muireann Maguire (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2023 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80374-220-5 (ISBN)

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lt;p>Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.

Muireann Maguire is Career Development Fellow in Russian Literature and Culture at Wadham College, Oxford. Her research interests include Gothic aspects of Soviet literature, Russian émigré prose, and the representation of science and scientists in Russian literary and cinematic culture since 1850. Red Spectres, her translated selection of twentieth-century Russian Gothic tales, was published in 2012.

lt;p>Contents: What is Soviet Gothic? - Gothic Castles - Gothic Bodies - Gothic Death - Gothic Monsters - Gothic Returns.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
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	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	classics • Early • Ghosts • Gothic • Literature • maguire • Muireann • soviet • stalin's • Themes
ISBN-10	1-80374-220-8 / 1803742208
ISBN-13	978-1-80374-220-5 / 9781803742205
Zustand	Neuware