Russian Literature Since 1991

An international team of leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of post-Soviet Russian literature.

List of contents

1. The burden of freedom: Russian literature after Communism Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky; 2. Recycling of the Soviet Evgeny Dobrenko; 3. (Post)ideological novel Serguei Alex. Oushakine; 4. Historical novel Kevin M. F. Platt; 5. Dystopias and catastrophe tales after Chernobyl Eliot Borenstein; 6. Magical historicism Alexander Etkind; 7. Petropoetics Ilya Kalinin; 8. Postmodernist novel Mark Lipovetsky; 9. Narrating trauma Helena Goscilo; 10. (Auto)biographical prose Marina Balina; 11. The legacy of the Underground Poets Catherine Ciepiela; 12. New lyrics Stephanie Sandler; 13. Narrative poetry Ilya Kukulin; 14. New drama Boris Wolfson; Works cited.

Summary

This collection provides an invaluable account of post-Soviet Russian literature in its historical, cultural and political contexts. An international team of leading commentators on contemporary Russia cover the most important trends, topics, authors and texts in Russian literature after Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn in a wide range of literary genres.

Product details

• Authors: Evgeny (University of Sheffield) Lipovet Dobrenko, Evgeny Lipovetsky Dobrenko, EDITED BY EVGENY DOB
• Assisted by: Evgeny Dobrenko (Editor), Evgeny (University of Sheffield) Dobrenko (Editor), Mark Lipovetsky (Editor), Mark (University of Colorado Boulder) Lipovetsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107068513
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06851-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies