Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction - Carnival, Dialogism, and History

List of contents

Introduction
Reading Bakhtin Dialogically
Dialogism, Carnival, and Chronotope in the Fiction of Vassily Aksyonov: A Bakhtin Primer
"Look Both Ways": Double-Voiced Satire in the Work of Ilf and Petrov
Language, Genre, and Satire in the Works of Mikhail Zoshchenko
Good and Evil, Truth and Lie: Dualism and Dialogism in the Fiction of Yuz Aleshkovsky
The House that Bitov Built: Postmodernism and Stalinism in Pushkin House
All-Purpose Parody: Sasha Sokolov's Astrophobia
Works Cited
Index

About the author

M. Keith Booker is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, USA. His recent publications include Star Trek: A Cultural History (2018), Tony Soprano’s America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money (2017) co-authored with Isra Daraiseh and Mad Men: A Cultural History (2016) with Bob Batchelor. He received his PhD in English from the University of Florida in 1990.

M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and literary theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (1994), Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History (1995), The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (1994), and The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide (1998), all available from Greenwood Press.

Product details

• Authors: M. Keith Booker, Juraga Dubravka
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1995
• EAN: 9780313295263
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29526-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 539 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Political ideologies and movements, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, The Arts: World Literature