Russian Postmodernism : New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910508301903321
• Autore: Epstein Mikhail N
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 1999; ©1998
• ISBN: 1-78238-865-6; 1-57181-098-6
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (601 pages)
• Collana: Slavic Literature, Culture and Society Ser. ; ; v.3
• Altri autori (Persone): GenisAlexander A; Vladiv-GloverSlobodanka Millicent; EpsteinThomas
• Disciplina: 891.7/090044
• Soggetti: History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: "New Sectarianism" and the Pleasure Principle in Postmodern Russian Culture -- Part I - The Making of Russian Postmodernism -- Chapter 1 - The Dialectics of Hyper: From Modernism to Postmodernism -- Chapter 2 - Postmodernism, Communism, and Sots-Art -- Chapter 3 - The 1960s and the Rediscovery of the Other in Russian Culture -- Chapter 4 - Perestroika as a Shift in Literary Paradigm -- Part II - Manifestos of Russian Postmodernism -- Chapter 5 - Theses on Metarealism and Conceptualism -- Chapter 6 - On Olga Sedakova and Lev Rubinshtein -- Chapter 7 - What Is Metarealism? Facts and Hypotheses -- Chapter 8 - What Is a Metabole? (On the Third Trope) -- Chapter 9 - Like a Corpse in the Desert: Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry -- Chapter 10 - A Catalogue of New Poetries -- Chapter 11 - Essayism: An Essay on the Essay -- Chapter 12 - The Ecology of Thinking -- Chapter 13 - Minimal Religion -- Chapter 14 - The Age of Universalism -- Chapter 15 - The Paradox of Acceleration -- Part III - Socialist Realism and Postmodernism -- Chapter 16 - Archaic Postmodernism: The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky -- Chapter 17 - Postmodernism and ; Sots-Realism: From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir Sorokin -- Chapter 18 - Borders and Metamorphoses: Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature -- Part IV - Conceptualism -- Chapter 19 - The New Model of Discourse in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction: Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia -- Chapter 20 - Heterogeneity and the Russian Post-Avant-Garde: The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin -- Chapter 21 - Emptiness as a Technique: Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov -- Chapter 22 - The Philosophical Implications of Russian Conceptualism -- Part V - Postmodernism and Spirituality.; Chapter 23 - Post-Atheism: From Apophatic Theology to "Minimal Religion -- Chapter 24 - Onions and Cabbages: Paradigms of Contemporary Culture -- Chapter 25 - Charms of Entropy and New Sentimentality: The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev -- Conclusion: On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.