Katerina Clark

The Soviet Novel, Third Edition

History as Ritual

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Third Edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 137mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780253213679
• ISBN-10: 0253213673
• Artikelnr.: 21751734

Autorenporträt

Katerina Clark is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She is author of Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution and coauthor (with Michael Holquist of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Distinctive role of Socialist Realism in Soviet Culture
I. Socialist Realism before 1932
1. What Socialist Realism Isand What Led to Its Adoption as the Official
Method of Soviet Literature
2. The Positive Hero in Prevolutionary Fiction
3. Socialist Realist Classics of the Twenties
II. High Stalinist Culture
4. The Machine and the Garden: Literature and the Metaphors for the New
Society
5. The Stalinist Myth of the "Great Family"
6. The Sense of Reality in the Heroic Age
III. An Analysis of the Conventional Soviet Novel
7. The Prototypical Plot
8. Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual Sacrifice
IV. Soviet Fiction since World War II
9. The Postwar Stalin Period (1944-53)
10. The Khrushchev Years
11. Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?
Conclusion
Appendix A: The Master Plot as Exemplified in the Production Novel and
Other Basic Types of Novel of the Stalin Period
Appendix B: The Official Short List of Model Novels as Inferred from
Speeches to Writers' Union Congresses
Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index