03103nam 2200673Ia 450 991045453420332120200520144314.01-282-52964-197866125296410-7391-3526-0(CKB)1000000000721661(EBL)467130(OCoLC)311277501(SSID)ssj0000129316(PQKBManifestationID)12017696(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129316(PQKBWorkID)10078033(PQKB)10340000(MiAaPQ)EBC467130(Au-PeEL)EBL467130(CaPaEBR)ebr10353489(CaONFJC)MIL252964(EXLCZ)99100000000072166120090106d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrConstructing the Stalinist body[electronic resource] fictional representations of corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s /Keith A. Livers1st paperback ed.Lanham Lexington Books20091 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-3525-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Stalinism Embodied; Chapter One. Turning Men into Women: Andrei Platonov in the 1930's; Chapter Two. Mikhail Zoshchenko: Engineering the Stalinist Body and Soul; Chapter Three. Lev Kassil': The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual; Chapter Four. Conquering the Underworld: The Spectacle of the Stalinist Metro; Conclusion. Stalinist Bodies on Display; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorConstructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship within the context of Stalinist ideology of the 1930's and '40's. Author Keith A. Livers examines the ways in which Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Kassil' and other authors used corporeal imagery as a means of both resisting and furthering the idea of a Stalinist utopia and the ideologically purified body politic it aspired to produce. The final chapter of the book looks atHuman body in literatureIdeology and literatureMind and body in literatureRussian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismUtopias in literatureElectronic books.Human body in literature.Ideology and literature.Mind and body in literature.Russian literatureHistory and criticism.Utopias in literature.891.709372947.0842Livers Keith A.1963-952859MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454534203321Constructing the Stalinist body2154244UNINA