Lydia Ginzburg's Prose : : Reality in Search of Literature / / Emily Van Buskirk.
The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be...
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Van Buskirk, Emily, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Lydia Ginzburg's Prose : Reality in Search of Literature / Emily Van Buskirk. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note about Spelling, Transliteration, and Archival References -- Introduction -- 1. Writing the Self after the Crisis of Individualism: Distancing and Moral Evaluation -- 2. The Poetics of Desk-Drawer Notebooks -- 3. Marginality in the Mainstream, Lesbian Love in the Third Person -- 4. Passing Characters -- 5. Transformations of Experience: Around and Behind Notes of a Blockade Person -- Conclusion: Sustaining a Human Image -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the desk drawer, in which she analyzed herself and other members of the Russian intelligentsia through seven traumatic decades of Soviet history. In this book, the first full-length English-language study of the writer, Emily Van Buskirk presents Ginzburg as a figure of previously unrecognized innovation and importance in the literary landscape of the twentieth century.Based on a decade's work in Ginzburg's archives, the book discusses previously unknown manuscripts and uncovers a wealth of new information about the author's life, focusing on Ginzburg's quest for a new kind of writing adequate to her times. She writes of universal experiences-frustrated love, professional failures, remorse, aging-and explores the modern fragmentation of identity in the context of war, terror, and an oppressive state. Searching for a new concept of the self, and deeming the psychological novel (a beloved academic specialty) inadequate to express this concept, Ginzburg turned to fragmentary narratives that blur the lines between history, autobiography, and fiction.This full account of Ginzburg's writing career in many genres and emotional registers enables us not only to rethink the experience of Soviet intellectuals, but to arrive at a new understanding of writing and witnessing during a horrific century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Intellectuals Soviet Union History 20th century. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors. bisacsh Bakhtin. Blok. French novel. Herzen. KraftЅbbing. Lydia Ginzburg. Mandelstam. Michael Lucey. Notes of a Blockade Person. Pyotr Vyazemsky. Russian novel. Russian writer. Russian writers. Shklovsky. Soviet Union. Weininger. aging. character analysis. frustrated love. genre. in-between prose. individualism. intelligentnost. literary character. literary scholars. love. memoirists. moral action. notebooks. paradox. personal pronouns. post-individualist prose. professional failure. realism. remorse. self-distancing. sexuality. teenage diaries. third-person narrative. women writers. writing. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016 9783110485264 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110638592 print 9780691166797 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400873777?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400873777 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400873777.jpg |
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