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The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story : A Critical Companion / ed. by Lyudmila Parts.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth CenturyPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781934843697
  • 9781618110169
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.73/010904 22
LOC classification:
  • PG3097 .R88 2010
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition -- I. “The Darling”: Femininity Scorned and Desired -- II. Bunin’s “Gentle Breath” -- III. Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel -- IV. Zoshchenko’s “Electrician,” or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism -- V. Yury Olesha’s Three Ages of Man: a Close Reading of “Liompa.” -- VI. Nabokov’s Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in “Spring in Fialta” (1936-1947) -- VII. Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of “The Childhood of Luvers” by Boris Pasternak -- VIII. Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire -- IX. “This Could Have Been Foreseen”: Kharms’s The Old Woman (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis -- X. Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov’s “Condensed Milk.” -- XI. The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz’s “Pkhents.” -- XII. Vasilii Shukshin’s “Cut Down to Size” (Srezal) and the Question of Transition -- XIII. Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia’s “The Poet and the Muse.” -- XIV. Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy -- XV. The Lady with the Dogs -- XVI. Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh’s “The Central-Ermolaevo War” and Viktor Erofeev’s “Parakeet.” -- XVII. Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov’s “Pushkin’s Photograph.” -- XVIII. The “Traditional Postmodernism” of Viktor Pelevin’s Short Story “Nika” -- WORKS CITED
Summary: The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author’s oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language’s power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition -- I. “The Darling”: Femininity Scorned and Desired -- II. Bunin’s “Gentle Breath” -- III. Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel -- IV. Zoshchenko’s “Electrician,” or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism -- V. Yury Olesha’s Three Ages of Man: a Close Reading of “Liompa.” -- VI. Nabokov’s Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in “Spring in Fialta” (1936-1947) -- VII. Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of “The Childhood of Luvers” by Boris Pasternak -- VIII. Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire -- IX. “This Could Have Been Foreseen”: Kharms’s The Old Woman (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis -- X. Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov’s “Condensed Milk.” -- XI. The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz’s “Pkhents.” -- XII. Vasilii Shukshin’s “Cut Down to Size” (Srezal) and the Question of Transition -- XIII. Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia’s “The Poet and the Muse.” -- XIV. Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy -- XV. The Lady with the Dogs -- XVI. Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh’s “The Central-Ermolaevo War” and Viktor Erofeev’s “Parakeet.” -- XVII. Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov’s “Pushkin’s Photograph.” -- XVIII. The “Traditional Postmodernism” of Viktor Pelevin’s Short Story “Nika” -- WORKS CITED

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The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author’s oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language’s power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory.

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