LEADER 04433nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910455521103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-0609-7 010 $a9786612751592 010 $a1-282-75159-X 010 $a1-4008-2075-8 010 $a1-4008-1294-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820757 035 $a(CKB)111056486505760 035 $a(EBL)668946 035 $a(OCoLC)707068790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000240299 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187820 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240299 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10252195 035 $a(PQKB)10141286 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668946 035 $a(OCoLC)179113250 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35940 035 $a(DE-B1597)446052 035 $a(OCoLC)979741413 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820757 035 $a(PPN)187292175 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668946 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035766 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275159 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505760 100 $a19911205d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussian village prose$b[electronic resource] $ethe radiant past /$fKathleen F. Parthe? 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1992 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton paperbacks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-01534-1 311 $a0-691-06889-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-187) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tA NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION --$tONE. The Parameters of Village Prose --$tTWO. The Question of Genre --$tTHREE. The Poetics of Village Prose --$tFOUR. Time, Backward! --$tFIVE. Borrowed Time: Metaphors for Loss in Village Prose --$tSIX. The Village Prose Writers and Their Critics --$tSEVEN. Two Detectives in Search of Village Prose --$tEIGHT. Rewriting and Rereading Literary History --$tAppendix I. "Kondyr" /$rLeonov, Aleksei --$tAppendix II. "Kondyr": A Parametric Analysis --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aKathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950's to the decline of the movement in the 1970's, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's past and fears for the nation's future; they opposed collectivized agriculture, and fought to preserve traditional art and architecture and to protect the environment. Assessing the place of Village Prose in the newly revised canon of twentieth-century Russian literature, Parth maintains that these writers consciously ignored and undermined Socialist Realism, and created the most aesthetically coherent and ideologically important body of published writings to appear in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's ascendancy. In the 1970's, Village Prose was seen as moderately nationalist and conservative in spirit. After 1985, however, statements by several of its practitioners caused the movement to be reread as a possible stimulus for chauvinistic, anti-Semitic groups like Pamyat. This important development is treated here with a thorough discussion of all the political implications of these rural narratives. Nevertheless, the center of Parth's work remains her exploration of the parameters that constitute a "code of reading" for works of Village Prose. The appendixes contain a translation and analysis of a particularly fine example of Russian Village Prose--Aleksei Leonov's "Kondyr." 410 0$aPrinceton paperbacks. 606 $aRussian fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCountry life in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRussian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCountry life in literature. 676 $a891.73/4409321734 700 $aParthe?$b Kathleen$01032895 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455521103321 996 $aRussian village prose$92451032 997 $aUNINA