The Vortex That Unites Us : : Versions of Totality in Russian Literature / / Jacob Emery.
The Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Considering a diversity of texts that have in common chiefly their prominence in the Russian literary canon, Jacob Emery examines the persistent ambition in Rus...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Totalities of Russian Literature
- 1. Versions of Possession: Ghost, Demon, Idea, Discourse
- 2. The Epidemic: The Infectious Imagination of Leo Tolstoy
- 3. The Panorama: World Literature and Universal Language
- 4. The Orchestra: Dictation and Dictatorship
- 5. The Market: Humbert Humbert as Mad Man
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index