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Russian experimental fiction : resisting ideology after Utopia

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  • "Into the intended and real audiences of this fiction, and into the ways its authors try to move them toward more sophisticated social discourse."
  • "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 present social realities, meta-utopian fiction investigates the function of a deep human impulse to imagine, project, and realize 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."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en

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  • "Russian experimental fiction : Resisting ideology after utopia"
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  • "Russian experimental fiction : resisting ideology after Utopia"
  • "Russian experimental fiction : resisting ideology after utopia"
  • "Russian experimental fiction"@en
  • "Russian Experimental Fiction Resisting Ideology after Utopia"@en

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