Winner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Rene Wellek Prize (2004)
As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, ...Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and art, Fordism and Detroit techno—each proposed as exemplary of the social construction of aesthetic and cultural forms. His book is a full-scale attempt to place the linguistic turn of critical theory and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language by the avant-garde since the Russian Formalists in relation to the cultural politics of postcolonial studies, feminism, and race theory. As such, it will provide a crucial revisionist perspective within modernist and avant-garde studies.
The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840—the century during which poets ...defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch.
The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three ...centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century up to the present day. The first half of the book is devoted to concepts such as versification, poetic language and tradition; the second half is organised along genre lines and examines the ode, the elegy, ballads, love poetry, nature poetry and patriotic verse. All poetry appears in the original followed by literal translations. This book is designed to give readers with even a minimal knowledge of the Russian language an appreciation of the brilliance of Russian poetry.
In Mapping Postcommunist Cultures Chernetsky argues that Russia and Ukraine exemplify the principal paradigms of post-Soviet cultural development. In Russia this has manifested itself in the ...subversive dismantling of the totalitarian linguistic regime and the foregrounding of previously marginalized subject positions. In Ukraine, work in these areas shows how the traumas of centuries of colonial oppression are being overcome through the carnivalesque decrowning of ideological dogmas and an affirmation of a new type of community, most recently demonstrated in the peaceful Orange Revolution of 2004. Mapping Postcommunist Cultures also critiques the neglect of the former communist world in current models of cultural globalization.
Cet article vise à montrer la convergence entre la façon dont Dostoïevski et Tolstoï, qui furent des écrivains incontournables dans la formation de la pensée de Levinas, esquissent une figure du ...bourgeois et du désembourgeoisement qui consonne avec celle qu’élabore ce dernier, en particulier au début de son œuvre.
Staline avec nous Georges Nivat
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Cet essai recherche essen-tiellement à approcher la complexité idéologique de la pensée philosophique, politique et sociale de la Russie contem-poraine. Le débat critique des idées et des réflexions ...théoriques (divergentes et convergentes, russes et étrangères) sur l’histoire et la société russes oriente ce texte et guide une analyse vers une ample perception des mécanismes idéologiques actuels, qui lèvent, entre autre, à une relecture de la figure de Sta-line et de certains principes stalinistes, comme l’exacerbation du sentiment patriotique, à l’œuvre dans l’évolution du gouvernement aujourd’hui au pouvoir. On y trouvera également des dévelop-pements sur l’importance de certains écrivains russes contemporains, parmi lesquels l’écrivain biélorusse Svetlana Alexiévitch, Prix Nobel de Littérature 2015.
Writing Fear Bowers, Katherine
2022, 2022-03-01
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In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside – a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring , persisting within later ...Russian literary movements . Writing Fear explores Russian literature’s engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period.
Bowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre’s function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be ...displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance. These were their responses. In a series of graphic vignettes, Messages from Ukraine takes the words of Ukrainian migration professionals and transforms them into snapshots of how war affects the lives of everyday people: those who are forced to flee home and seek safety elsewhere, those who choose to stay and volunteer or fight, those who witness events unfolding from afar, and those who find themselves trapped in cities under siege. Messages from Ukraine captures a moment in time to tell a timeless story about war, displacement, determination, and resilience. Proceeds from the sale of Messages from Ukraine will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, a national charitable foundation that provides humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.
The Vortex That Unites Us is a
study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the
modern Russian state to the present day. Considering a
diversity of texts that have in common ...chiefly their prominence in
the Russian literary canon, Jacob Emery examines the persistent
ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into an
artwork. Emery reveals how the diversity of totalizing figures in
the Russian canon-often in alliance with ideologies like the
totalitarian state or enlightenment reason-strive for the frontiers
of space and time in order to guarantee the coherence of the globe
and the continuity of history. He expores subjects like romantic
metaphors of supernatural possession; Tolstoy's conception of art
as a vector of emotional contagion; the panoramic ambitions of the
avant-garde to grasp the globe in a new poetic medium; efforts of
Soviet utopians to harmonize the whole of social life along
aesthetic lines; Mandelstam's evocation of writing as a
transcendental authority that guarantees a grandiose historical
rhythm even when manifested as authoritarian repression; and the
mass market of cultural commodities in which the exiled Vladimir
Nabokov found success with his novel Lolita. The Vortex That
Unites Us reveals a common thread in the disparate works it
explores, bringing into a single horizon a variety of typically
siloed texts and aesthetic approaches. In all these cases, the
medium of totality is the body, inspired by artistic vision and
compelled by aesthetic response.
Tamizdat offers a new
perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story
of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the
West. A word that means publishing "over there,"
...tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never
submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled
through various channels and printed outside the country, with or
without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how
tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century
Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian
classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in
Russia.
Examining narratives of Stalinism and the Gulag, Klots focuses
on contraband manuscripts in the 1960s and 70s, from Khrushchev's
Thaw to Stagnation under Brezhnev. Klots revisits the traditional
notion of late Soviet culture as a binary opposition between the
underground and official state publishing. He shows that even as
tamizdat represented an alternative field of cultural production in
opposition to the Soviet regime and the dogma of Socialist Realism,
it was not devoid of its own hierarchy, ideological agenda, and
even censorship.
Tamizdat is a cultural history of Russian literature
outside the Iron Curtain. The Russian literary diaspora was the
indispensable ecosystem for these works. Yet in the post-Stalin
years, they also served as a powerful weapon on the cultural fronts
of the Cold War, laying bare the geographical, stylistic, and
ideological rifts between two disparate yet inextricably
intertwined fields of Russian literature, one at home, the other
abroad.
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