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.

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Superior document:Critical Studies,
TeilnehmendeR:
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].
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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.