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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction Carnival, Dialogism, and History
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M. Keith Booker, Dubravka Juraga
Book Code: GM9526
ISBN: 0-313-29526-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29526-3
200 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/1995
List Price: $107.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Series Number: 58
Reviews:
  • In this important book Booker and Juraga challenge the irony of Bakhtin's critical legacy. The authors cast a new light on the fact that Bakhtin is largely misunderstood in the West: they explain that Bakhtin's ideas have evolved in the historical context of Russia. General and academic audiences, upper-division undergraduate and above.
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Description: Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Bakhtin's ideas are then placed in dialogic relation to the works of several important writers of modern Russian fiction, including Vassily Aksyonov, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Andrei Bitov, and Sasha Sokolov.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Reading Bakhtin Dialogically
  • Dialogism, Carnival, and Chronotope in the Fiction of Vassily Aksyonov: A Bakhtin Primer
  • "Look Both Ways": Double-Voiced Satire in the Work of Ilf and Petrov
  • Language, Genre, and Satire in the Works of Mikhail Zoshchenko
  • Good and Evil, Truth and Lie: Dualism and Dialogism in the Fiction of Yuz Aleshkovsky
  • The House that Bitov Built: Postmodernism and Stalinism in Pushkin House
  • All-Purpose Parody: Sasha Sokolov's Astrophobia
  • Works Cited
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-24572
LCC Class: PG3098
Dewey Class: 891.73
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