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].

Table of Contents

Introduction: Socialist Realism / Hilary Chung -- Part I: 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 / Martin Dewhirst -- Coming to terms with a term : notes on the history of the use of socialist realism in China / Lorenz Bichler -- Part II: In the Party Spirit: Patterns of Conformity? -- From avant-garde to socialist realism : how writers adapt / Igor Shaitanov -- Solzhenitsyn as 'socialist realist' / Michael A. Nicholson -- Endings and non-endings in Iurii Trifonov / Michael Falchikov -- Anna Seghers and the appeal of socialist realism / Ian Wallace -- "Socialist realism" versus "revolutionary realism plus revolutionary romanticism" / Yang Lan -- The Stalin Prizes for Literature as the quintessence of socialist realism / Alla Latynina -- Part III: The Search for an Alternative Voice: History, Modernism, Feminism -- Culture and code : historical fiction in a socialist environment : the GDR and China / Rudolf G. Wagner -- James Joyce and socialist realism? Modernist awareness and ideological constraints in GDR literature / Dennis Tate -- Avant-garde or idyll? Christa Wolf's discovery of modernity / Hannes Krauss -- The disappearance of truth : from realism to modernism in China / Chen Xiaoming -- Two generations of women's literature in the GDR : a study of power and feminism / Sigrid Lange -- Part IV: The End of Socialist Realism -- The self-destruction of closed cultures / Galina Belaya.