25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943)

ISBN-13: 9780367723910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 348 str.

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Opis

This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and as a wide-ranging analysis of Soviet literature, this book has rarely been bettered.

Spis treści

1. Pre-Revolutionary Writers After 1924  1.1. Literature and the Revolution  1.2. Bely  1.3. Gorky  1.4. A.N. Tolstoy  1.5. Ehrenburg  1.6. Veresaev  1.7. Prishvin and Sergeyev-Tsensky  1.8. Zamyatin  2. Two Revolutionary Romantics  2.1. Babel  2.2. Vsevolod Ivanov  3. The Revival of the Novel  3.1. The Serapion Brothers  3.2. Fedin  3.3. Leonov  3.4. Kaverin  3.5. Slonimsky and Savich  3.6. Lavrenev, Malyshkin and Lebedenko  4. Writers of Everyday Life  4.1. Chroniclers of the Revolution  4.2. Seyfullina  4.3. Romanov  4.4. Lidin  4.5. Kataev  4.6. Zoshchenko  4.7. Ilf and Petrov  4.8. Levin and some others  5. The Proletarian Writers  5.1. From the ‘Proletkult’ to the Five Year Plan and After  5.2. Gladkov  5.3. Panferov  5.4. Libedinsky  5.5. Fadeyev  5.6. Sholokhov  5.7. Malashkin and others  6. Yury Olesha and His ‘Envy’  7. Literature of the Five-Year Plan  8. ‘Counter-Revolutionary’ Tendencies in Soviet Literature  8.1. The ‘Neo-Bourgeois’ and ‘Kulak’ Spirit in Literature  8.2. Zamyatin’s We  8.3. Pilnyak’s Mahogany  8.4. Budantsev’s Sufferings of Mind  8.5. Bulgakov  9. The Historical Novel  10. The Poets  10.1. Decline of Poetry  10.2. Mayakovsky and Esenin  10.3. Pasternak  10.4. Tikhonov  10.5. Selvinsky and Constructivism  10.6. Bagritsky  10.7. Aseyev  10.8. Bezymensky and Other Proletarian Poets  10.9. The Poets’ Prose: Mandelstam, Pasternak, Tikhonov  11. The Drama  12. Literary Criticism and Literary Theories  12.1. Formalism  12.2. Sociological Method  13. Government Policy in Matters of Literature  13.1. From 1918 to the Five Year Plan  13.2. The ‘Reform’ of 1932 and After  14. Latest Developments: Socialist Realism: Nationalism vs. ‘Westernism’ and ‘Classicism’ vs. ‘Modernism’

O autorze

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