LEADER 02849nam 2200373 450 001 9910488739103321 005 20230513111456.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000516163 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000516163 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000516163 100 $a20230513d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aReading Backwards $ean advance retrospective on Russian literature /$fedited by Muireann Maguire, Timothy Langen 210 1$aCambridge, UK :$cOpen Book Publishers,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvi, 270 pages) 311 $a1-80064-124-9 327 $aContributor Biographies -- Imagination and Collapse in OBrien Krzhizhanovsky and 1 -- Raphaels Portrait of Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol 27 -- Dostoevsky 51 -- Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel Yakhina into the Heart of 79 -- Dostoevsky Anticipating Petrushevskaia 101 -- Tolstoy 127 -- Levinas Tolstoy and Responsibility for the Other 159 -- When Andrei Bolkonskii Voiced Achilles 189 -- But Seriously Folks Pierre Bayard and the Russians 221 -- List of Figures 263 -- Copyright. 330 $a"This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of 'anticipatory plagiarism'--developed in the 1960s by the 'Oulipo' group of French writers and thinkers--as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, its contributors ask us to consider how reading against linear chronologies can elicit fascinating new patterns and perspectives. Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature re-assesses three major nineteenth-century authors--Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy--either in terms of previous writers and artists who plagiarized them (such as Raphael, Homer, or Hall Caine), or of their own depredations against later writers (from J.M. Coetzee to Liudmila Petrushevskaia). Far from suggesting that past authors literally stole from their descendants, these engaging essays, contributed by both early-career and senior scholars of Russian and comparative literature, encourage us to identify the contingent and familiar within classic texts. By moving beyond rigid notions of cultural heritage and literary canons, they demonstrate that inspiration is cyclical, influence can flow in multiple directions, and no idea is ever truly original."-- Provided by publisher. 517 $aReading Backwards 606 $aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891.709 702 $aLangen$b Timothy 702 $aMaguire$b Muireann 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910488739103321 996 $aReading Backwards$92857497 997 $aUNINA