LEADER 03487 am 2200625 n 450 001 9910500604503321 005 20230130125141.0 010 $a2-8218-6814-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000012042878 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-obp-22360 035 $a(PPN)258324589 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012042878 100 $a20211008j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 200 00$aReading Backwards$eAn Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature$fMuireann Maguire, Timothy Langen 210 $aCambridge$cOpen Book Publishers$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (xxviii-274 p.) 311 $a1-80064-119-2 330 $aThis 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. This book will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Russian Studies. The introductory discussion of the origins and context of ?plagiarism by anticipation?, alongside varied applications of the concept, will also be of interest to those working in the wider fields of comparative literature, reception studies, and translation studies. 606 $aLiterature Slavic 606 $aRussian literature 606 $aclassics 606 $aanticipatory plagiarism 606 $aTolstoy 606 $aGogol 606 $acomparative literature 606 $acultural heritage 606 $aRussian Studies 606 $anineteenth-century literature 615 4$aLiterature Slavic 615 4$aRussian literature 615 4$aclassics 615 4$aanticipatory plagiarism 615 4$aTolstoy 615 4$aGogol 615 4$acomparative literature 615 4$acultural heritage 615 4$aRussian Studies 615 4$anineteenth-century literature 700 $aBowden$b Michael$01355255 701 $aGillespie$b David$01111533 701 $aKorneeva$b Marina$01355256 701 $aLangen$b Timothy$01355257 701 $aMaguire$b Muireann$01355258 701 $aNaiman$b Eric$01355259 701 $aShankman$b Steven$01355260 701 $aTigountsova$b Inna$01355261 701 $aVinitsky$b Ilya$01355262 701 $aYefimenko$b Svetlana$01355263 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910500604503321 996 $aReading Backwards$93359433 997 $aUNINA