Description
| Product ID: | 9783034307871 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas |
| Title: | Stalin's Ghosts |
| Subtitle: | Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature |
| Authors: | Author: Muireann Maguire |
| Page Count: | 331 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Language teaching theory and methods, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , ELT background & reference material |
| Description: | Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume shows how Soviet authors drew on the traditional archetypes of the genre, such as the castle, the body, vampires, ghosts, villains, madness, and unnatural death, presenting a revisionist challenge to the view of Soviet literature as strictly rational. Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-11-28 |
