Russian Postmodernist Fiction - Dialogue with Chaos

This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.

List of contents

Editor's Introduction: Postmodernism, Duty-Free Eliot Borenstein I. Introduction 1. Chaos as a System Dialogue with Chaos as a New Artistic Strategy II. Culture as Chaos 2. Sacking the Museum: Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House 3. From an Otherwordly Point of View: Venedikt Erofeev' s Moscow to the End of the Line 4. The Myth of Metamorphosis: Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools 5. Active Nonbeing III. The Poetics of Chaosmos 6. Context: Soviet Utopia 7. Context: Mythologies of Creation 8. Context: Mythologies of History 9. Context: Mythologies of the Absurd 10. Famous Last Words IV. Conclusion 11. On the Nature of Russian Postmodernism

About the author

Mark Lipovetsky, Eliot Borenstein

Product details

• Authors: Eliot Borenstein, Borenstein Eliot, Mark Lipovetsky, Lipovetsky Mark
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.1999
• EAN: 9780765601773
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0177-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 476 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form