From Symbolism to Socialist Realism
A Reader
Irene Masing-Delic author Irene Masing-Delic editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Academic Studies Press
Published:30th Jul '12
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From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualising the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. This collection of critical- theoretical articles, cultural and historical analyses, literary manifestos and declarations of literary aesthetics, memoirs of revolutionary terrorism and arrests by the NKVD, political denunciations and “literary vignettes” captures the spirit of this period in a nutshell. The voices of this “polyphonic” READER are diverse: Briusov, Savinkov, Ivanov-Razumnik, Kollontai, Tsvetaeva, Shklovsky, Olesha, Zoshchenko, Zhdanov, Grossman, Evtushenko and others. The range of specialists on Russian culture represented here is equally broad: Clark, Erlich, Falen, Grossman, Nilsson, Peace, Poznansky, Siniavskii, Volkov and others. Together they evoke and illuminate a complex and tragic era.
"The first third of the twentieth century saw immense cultural, political and technological changes, and in Russia those processes played out in literature. In this unique reader, Masing-Delic collects in one volume invaluable English translations of key Russian texts, from manifestos of poetic and revolutionary positions to poems, songs, diary entries and excerpts from memoirs. With some of the best English-language critical articles on the period, the volume functions as a primer on late imperial and early Soviet culture. Cultural contexts include the emigre community in Europe after the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, and World War II. Perfect for the classroom or for those who want to explore Russian literary culture on their own. Masing-Delic has done the profession and the general reader a great service with From Symbolism to Socialist Realism." -- Angela Brintlinger, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
ISBN: 9781936235421
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474 pages