World Literature in the Soviet Union / / ed. by Anne Lounsbery, Galin Tihanov, Rossen Djagalov.

This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one cou...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological Horizons
  • CHAPTER 2 On the Worldliness of Russian Literature
  • CHAPTER 3 Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping It in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist Contexts
  • CHAPTER 4 The Roles of “Form” and “Content” in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post- Revolutionary Years
  • CHAPTER 5 “The Treasure Trove of World Literature”: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia
  • CHAPTER 6 The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet History
  • CHAPTER 7 International Literature: A Multi-language Soviet Journal as a Model of “World Literature” of the Mid-1930s USSR
  • CHAPTER 8 Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the West
  • CHAPTER 9 World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist Realism
  • CHAPTER 10 Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers Association (1958–1991) and Its Literary Field
  • CHAPTER 11 Can “Worldliness” Be Inscribed into the Literary Text?: Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature
  • Contributors
  • Index