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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778602303321

Titolo

Fruits of her plume : essays on contemporary Russian woman's culture / / edited by Helena Goscilo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015, c1993

ISBN

1-56324-126-9

1-315-70416-1

0-585-19232-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GosciloHelena <1945->

Disciplina

891.70992870904

Soggetti

Russian literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century

Russia (Federation) Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1993 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Photographs""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Editor and Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Bakhtin and Women A Nontopic with Immense Implications""; ""2 Bakhtin's Concept of the Grotesque and the Art of Petrushevskaia and Tolstaia""; ""3 Soviet Russian Women's Literature in the Early 1980s""; ""4 The Poetics of Banality Tat'iana Tolstaia, Lana Gogoberidze, and Larisa Zvezdochetova""; ""5 The Creation of Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel'shtam""

""6 The Canon and the Backward Glance Akhmatova, Lisnianskaia, Petrovykh, Nikolaeva""""7 Speaking Bodies Erotic Zones Rhetoricized""; ""8 Games Women Play The ""Erotic"" Prose of Valeriia Narbikova""; ""9 Happy Never After The Work of Viktoriia Tokareva and Glasnost'""; ""10 ""Leaving Paradise"" and Perestroika A Week Like Any Other and Memorial Day by Natal'ia Baranskaia""; ""11 Iuliia Voznesenskaia's Women With Love and Squalor""; ""12 The Heartfelt Poetry of Elena Shvarts""; ""13 Reflections, Crooked Mirrors, Magic Theaters Tat'iana Tolstaia's ""Peters""""; ""Index""



Sommario/riassunto

The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. This volume may thus be said to engage not only women's artistic production but, indeed, the best and most colourful of recent Russian culture. Treating contemporary Russian women's creativity, it approaches women's texts, films, and canvasses from a range of perspectives, from anti-gendered to feminist. Some of the essays introduce writers not previously well studied, others challenge conventional interpretations and assumptions, while still others yield orig