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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476764403321

Autore

Lipovetsky Mark

Titolo

Postmodern Crises : From Lolita to Pussy Riot / / Mark Lipovetsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Academic Studies Press, 2017

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9781618115591

1618115596

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 pages)

Collana

Ars Rossica

Classificazione

KH 1040

Disciplina

891.709/0044

Soggetti

Postmodernism (Literature) - Russia (Federation)

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Russian literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Postmodernism - Russia (Federation)

Motion pictures - Russia (Federation) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- LITERATURE -- The War of Discourses: Lolita and the Failure of a Transcendental Project -- The Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today -- The Progressor between the Imperial and the Colonial -- Cycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian Literature -- Flеshing/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin's Master Trope -- Pussy Riot as the Trickstar -- The Formal Is Political -- FILM -- Post-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s-Early 2000s -- War as the Family Value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein / Todorovsky, Valery -- A Road of Violence: My Joy / Loznitsa, Sergei -- In Denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away / Veledinsky, Aleksandr -- Lost in Translation: Short Stories by Mikhail Segal -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky's articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The



reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov's Lolita), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films. Other articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism, and contemporary trends of "complex" literature, as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes (the Strugatsky's progressors). The book will be interesting for teachers and scholars of contemporary Russian literature and culture; it can be used both in undergraduate and graduate courses.