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Russian Experimental Fiction - Resisting Ideology after Utopia (Hardcover)
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Russian Experimental Fiction - Resisting Ideology after Utopia (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground
Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to
draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to
utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Dostoevsky's
Notes from Underground, and Orwell's Animal Farm, they have tested
notions of truth, reality, and representation. They have gone
beyond their precursors by experimenting with the tensions between
ludic and didactic art. Edith Clowes explores these "meta-utopian"
narratives, which address a wide range of attitudes toward utopia,
to expose the challenge that literary play poses to dogmatism and
to elucidate the sense of renewal it can bring to social
imagination. Using both structural analysis and reception theory,
she introduces readers outside Russia to a fascinating body of
literature that includes Aleksandr Zinoviev's The Yawning Heights,
Abram Terts's Liubimov, Vladimir Voinovich's Moscow 2042, and
Liudmila Petrushevskaia's "The New Robinsons.". Not advocating its
own utopian alternative to current social realities, meta-utopian
fiction investigates the function of a deep human impulse to
imagine, project, and enforce alternative social orders. Clowes
examines the technical innovations meta-utopian writers have made
in style, image, and narrative structure that inform fresh modes of
social imagination. Her analysis leads to an inquiry into the
intended and real audiences of this fiction, and into the ways its
authors try to move them toward more sophisticated social
discourse. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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