The Making of the State Writer - Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture

This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in "The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature" (Stanford, 1997). The author demonstrates that Socialist Realism is not so much directed as it is self-directed; the transformation of the author into his own censor is the true history of Soviet literature.

About the author

Evgeny Dobrenko is Reader in Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Summary

This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in "The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature" (Stanford, 1997).

Product details

• Authors: Evgenii Dobrenko, Evgeny Dobrenko
• Assisted by: Jesse Savage (Translation), Jesse M Savage (Translation), Jesse M. Savage (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9780804733649
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3364-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 837 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies