Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Buchreihe	:	Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas (Bd. 4)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	28. 11. 2012
Seiten	:	331
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	225 mm
Breite	:	150 mm
Gewicht	:	480 g
ISBN	:	9783034307871
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Muireann Maguire is Career Development Fellow in Russian Literature and Culture at Wadham College, Oxford. Her research interests include Gothic aspects of Soviet literature, Russian émigré prose, and the representation of science and scientists in Russian literary and cinematic culture since 1850. Red Spectres, her translated selection of twentieth-century Russian Gothic tales, was published in 2012.

Produktinformation

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Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Deine Buchhandlung

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