Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution: 1881-1940
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 March 1998
- ISBN 9780198742357
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 235x157x20 mm
- Weight 577 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones 0
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Constructing Russian Culture offers a pioneering new account of the relationship between literature and other cultural forms in Late Imperial Russia and Revolutionary Russia. It rejects traditional text-based approaches, and broadens debates by exploring a number of key themes: science and objectivity; national and personal identities; consumerism and commercial culture, it will be essential reading for all with an interest in the subject.
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Constructing Russian Culture offers a pioneering new account of the relationship between literature and other cultural forms in Late Imperial Russia and Revolutionary Russia.
The general consensus in Western study of Russia and the Soviet Union has been that understanding of `historical background' is essential to the study of `literature'. But this consensus has so far failed to produce sophisticated overviews of the culture as a whole; literary histories seldom venture outside a rigid canon of authors and literary groupings, and the account of `historical background' sometimes amount to little more than a listing of certain predictable political and social factors that can be perceived to have `influenced' (or impeded) literary developments.
This book is an ambitious attempt to recontextualize Russian literature, and rethink the relations between literature and other cultural forms. The book examines a number of, in Bourdieu's term `cultural fields' in late Imperial Russia: science and objectivity; national and personal identity; consumerism and commercial culture. There is also a `keywords' introduction explaining the evolution of concepts of the self, the nation, and `literariness' in Russian culture, and an `Epilogue' outlining the further history of the central themes after 1917.
Contributors include leading specialists in Russian literature, cultural history, and cultural theory from Britain, the USA, and Russia. Intended as a companion to Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (also OUP), this stimulating, original, and controversial book will be a vital resource for all those interested in Russian culture during `the age of Revolution'.
Reviewed with Russian Cultural Studies by the same authors, "The two books are kind to the reader...Parts and paragraphs have got attractive and orientated titles...Many illustrations..The reviewed publication in two volumes gives a good view of the problems of Russian Culture", Prof. Dr. Witold Kosny, University of Rostock
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION: Literature, History, Culture
PART I: PROLOGUE: KEY CONCEPTS BEFORE 1881
`Lichnost': Notions of Individual Identity before 1881; Obshchestvennost' Sobornost' : Collective Identities before 1881; Narodnost' : Notions of National Identity before 1881; Literaturnost' : Literature and the Marketplace before 1881
PART II: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Chapter 1: The Objective Eye and the Common Good
Chapter 2: Commercial Culture and Consumerism in Late Imperial Russia
Chapter 3: Collapse and Creation: Issues of Identity and the Russian fin de siècle
PART III: EPILOGUE: CONSTRUCTING A NEW RUSSIA
Change and Continuity in the Aftermath of Revolution; Introduction: Iconoclasm and Commemorating the Past; New Boundaries for the `Common Good': Science, Philanthropy, and Objectivity in Soviet Russia; Programmes for Identity: The `New Man' and the `New Woman'; Directed Desires: Kul'turnost' and Consumption in Post- Revolutionary Russia; Conclusion: From `Russian Empire' to ` Soviet Union'
APPENDICES
ANALYTICAL INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES
SUBJECT INDEX
