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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826129103321

Autore

Dobrenko E. A (Evgenii Aleksandrovich)

Titolo

The making of the state reader : social and aesthetic contexts of the reception of Soviet literature / / Evgeny Dobrenko ; translated by Jesse M. Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-8047-8038-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 pages)

Disciplina

891.709/004

Soggetti

Russian literature - 20th century - Appreciation - Soviet Union

Books and reading - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-363) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the doctrine of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded.