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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476786203321

Autore

Soboleva Olga <1959->

Titolo

From orientalism to cultural capital : the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1920s / / Olga Sobolev and Angus Wrenn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, U.K : , : Peter Lang AG, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9781787073944

9783034322034

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

820.9/35847

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

. . . presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and the notion of cultural capital associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Examining the responses of leading literary practitioners who had a significant impact on the institutional transmission of Russian culture, they reassess the mechanics of cultural dialogism, mediation and exchange, casting new light on British perceptions of modernism as a transcultural artistic movement and the ways in which the literary interaction with the myth of Russia shaped and intensified these cultural views." --