In the party spirit : : socialist realism and literary practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China / / edited by Hilary Chung with Michael Falchikov, Bonnie S. McDougall and Karin McPherson.

• Superior document: Critical Studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Chung, Hilary,; Falchikov, Michael,; McDougall, Bonnie S. 1941-; McPherson, Karin,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, 1996.; Leiden : : Brill; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English; German; Russian
• Series: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages)
• Notes: "The articles in this volume were presented as papers at an international conference on Socialist Realism, held at the University of Edinburgh in April 1995."--Page [vii].
• Other title: Socialist realism and literary practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China; Introduction: Socialist Realism /; Notions of Truth: Socialist Realism as a Regulative Norm --; The "command enjoyment" of literature in China : conferences, controls and excesses / Hilary Chung & Tommy McClellan --; Soviet socialist realism and the Soviet censorship system /; Coming to terms with a term : notes on the history of the use of socialist realism in China /; In the Party Spirit: Patterns of Conformity? --; From avant-garde to socialist realism : how writers adapt /; Solzhenitsyn as 'socialist realist' /; Endings and non-endings in Iurii Trifonov /; Anna Seghers and the appeal of socialist realism /; "Socialist realism" versus "revolutionary realism plus revolutionary romanticism" /; The Stalin Prizes for Literature as the quintessence of socialist realism /; The Search for an Alternative Voice: History, Modernism, Feminism --; Culture and code : historical fiction in a socialist environment : the GDR and China /; James Joyce and socialist realism? Modernist awareness and ideological constraints in GDR literature /; Avant-garde or idyll? Christa Wolf's discovery of modernity /; The disappearance of truth : from realism to modernism in China /; Two generations of women's literature in the GDR : a study of power and feminism /; The End of Socialist Realism --; The self-destruction of closed cultures /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004455078; 9004455078; 9789051839791; 9051839790
• ISSN: 1875-7332
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Hilary Chung with Michael Falchikov, Bonnie S. McDougall and Karin McPherson.