Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet CultureBerghahn Books, 2015 M12 1 - 602 pages Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 The 1960s and the Rediscovery of the Other in Russian Culture | 95 |
Chapter 4 Perestroika as a Shift in Literary Paradigm | 151 |
Part II Manifestos of Russian Postmodernism | 167 |
Chapter 5 Theses on Metarealism and Conceptualism | 169 |
Part III Socialist Realism and Postmodernism | 247 |
The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky | 249 |
From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir Sorokin | 261 |
Viktor Pelevin in the Context of PostSoviet Literature | 276 |
Part IV Conceptualism | 289 |
Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia | 291 |
The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin | 333 |
Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov | 363 |
Chapter 6 On Olga Sedakova and Lev Rubinshtein | 177 |
Chapter 7 What Is Metarealism? Facts and Hypotheses | 182 |
Chapter 8 What Is a Metabole? On the Third Trope | 189 |
Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry | 198 |
Chapter 10 A Catalogue of New Poetries | 209 |
An Essay on the Essay | 216 |
Chapter 12 The Ecology of Thinking | 222 |
Chapter 13 Minimal Religion | 227 |
Chapter 14 The Age of Universalism | 236 |
Chapter 15 The Paradox of Acceleration | 241 |
Chapter 22 The Philosophical Implications of Russian Conceptualism | 410 |
Part V Postmodernism and Spirituality | 429 |
From Apophatic Theology to Minimal Religion | 431 |
Paradigms of Contemporary Culture | 480 |
The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev | 509 |
On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity | 542 |
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