This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.
This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conc...
This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.
This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conc...
Perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first time in Russia's history, the popular culture industry (publishing, film, and television) began to disseminate works that featured increasingly explicit images and descriptions of sex and violence.
In Overkill, Eliot Borenstein explores this lurid and often-disturbing cultural landscape in close, imaginative readings of such...
Perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture...
In "Men without Women "Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analyzing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological spectrum, Borenstein provides an illuminating reading of the construction of masculinity in Soviet culture. In each example he identifies the replacement of blood ties with ideology and the creation of a social order in which the family has been supplanted by the collective. In such works as "Red Cavalry" by Isaac Babel, "Envy" by Yuri Olesha, and "Chevengur" by...
In "Men without Women "Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comrades...
In "Men without Women "Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analyzing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological spectrum, Borenstein provides an illuminating reading of the construction of masculinity in Soviet culture. In each example he identifies the replacement of blood ties with ideology and the creation of a social order in which the family has been supplanted by the collective. In such works as "Red Cavalry" by Isaac Babel, "Envy" by Yuri Olesha, and "Chevengur" by...
In "Men without Women "Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comrades...
