Russian Children's Literature and Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Balina, Marina; Rudova, Larissa

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the importance of children's culture, from literature to comics, to theater and film, in the formation of Soviet social identity, and in connection with broader Russian culture, history, and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135865573
• Artikelnr.: 38403664

Autorenporträt

Marian Balina is Professor Russian at Illinois Wesleyan University. She has co-edited a number of collections, including Politiciing Magic: Russian and Soviet FairyTales (2005), Dictionary of Literary Biography: RussianWriters Since 1980 (2003), and Endquote: Sots-ArtLiterature and Soviet Empire Style (2000). LarissaRudova is Associate Professor of Russian at Pomona College. She is author of Pasternak's Early Fiction andthe Cultural Vanguard (1994) and Understanding BorisPasternak (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
INTRODUCTION: Reading Soviet and Post-Soviet Children's Culture: Contexts
and Challenges
1. Creativity through Restraint: The Beginnings of Soviet Children's
Literature
Marina Balina
2. From Character Building to Criminal Pursuits: Russian Children's
Literature in Transition
PART I Ideology, Literature, and Culture: Genres, Themes, and Issues
3. The Whole Real Children's World: School Novella and "Our Happy
Childhood"
Evgeny Dobrenko
4. Between Sputnik and Gagarin: Space Flight, Children's Periodicals, and
the Circle of Imagination
Anindita Banerjee
5. Crafting the Self: Narratives of Pre-Revolutionary Childhood in Soviet
Literature
Marina Balina
6. Literature and Cultural Institutions By and For Soviet and Post-Soviet
Youth
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya
PART II Popular Children's Entertainment
7. Arresting Development: A Brief History of Soviet Cinema for Children and
Adolescents
Alexandr Prokhorov (College of William and Mary)
8. Comforting Creatures in Children's Cartoons
Birgit Beumers (U of Bristol)
9. Juggernaut in Drag: Theater for Stalin's Children
Boris Wolfson (USC)
10. 'Nice, Instructive Stories Their Psychology Can Grasp': How to Read
Post-Soviet Russian Children's Comics
Jose Alaniz (U of Washington)
PART III: Authors and Texts
11. Samuil Marshak-Yesterday and Today
Ben Hellman (University of Helsinki)
12. Lev Kassil': Childhood as Religion and Ideology
Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Eugene Lang College, The New School)
13. Pavel Bazhov's Skazy: Discovering the Soviet Uncanny
Mark Lipovetsky (U of Colorado)
14. A Traditionalist in the Land of Innovators: the Paradoxes of Sergei
Mikhalkov
Elena Prokhorova (University of Richmond)
15. Evgenii Shvarts's Fairy Tale Dramas: Theater, Power, and the Naked
Truth
Anja Tippner (University of Salzburg)
16. Invitation to a Subversion: The Playful Literature of Grigorii Oster
Larissa Rudova (Pomona College)
Contributors
Index