Literature redeemed : : "neo-modernism" in the works of the post-Soviet Russian writers Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin / / by Nicolas Dreyer.

• VerfasserIn: Dreyer, Nicolas,
• Place / Publishing House: Wien ;, Köln ;, Weimar : : Böhlau Verlag,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Postmodernism -- 1.1 Terminology -- 1.1.1 Literature -- 1.1.2 Philosophy -- 1.2 Modernity and Postmodernity -- 1.3 Literary Postmodernism -- 1.3.1 Modernism -- 1.3.2 Postmodernism -- 1.4 Conclusions -- 2 Russian Modernity -- 2.1 Continuity vs. Progress -- 2.2 Soviet Marxism -- 2.3 Shell vs. Substance Phenomena -- 2.4 Cultural Continuity -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Russian Modernism -- 3.1 Spiritual Seeking -- 3.2 Style -- 3.3 Perspective -- 3.4 Ontology vs. Epistemology -- 3.5 Anti-rationalism -- 3.6 The Absurd and Daniil Kharms -- 3.7 Russian Modernism and Beyond -- 4 Perspectives on Humor and Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction -- 4.1 Aufarbeitung, Bew altigung and Relief -- 4.1.1 Humor -- 4.1.2 Carnivalization -- 4.1.3 Jesting and Iurodstvo -- 4.1.4 Conceptualism and Sots-Art -- 4.1.5 St eb -- 4.2 Literature Redeemed -- 4.2.1 Intertextuality -- 4.2.2 Metafiction -- 4.2.3 Pastiche and Parody -- 4.3 Conclusions -- 5 The Gnostic : Vladimir Sorokin -- 5.1 The Narrative World of Blue Lard -- 5.2 Moral Concerns -- 5.2.1 Humor -- 5.2.2 The Notion of Progress -- 5.2.3 Russian History and Culture -- 5.2.4 Discourse and Violence -- 5.3 Typological Considerations -- 5.3.1 Surrealism -- 5.3.2 Gnosticism -- 5.4 Conclusions -- 6 The Aesopian : Vladimir Tuchkov -- 6.1 Intertextuality and Pastiche -- 6.2 Anti-utopia and the Logic of Power -- 6.3 Moral Masochism -- 6.4 Parody and Metafiction -- 6.5 Conclusions -- 7 The Kharmsian : Aleksandr Khurgin -- 7.1 Semantic Interplay -- 7.2 Structure -- 7.3 Themes -- 7.4 Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Works of Reference and Bibliographies -- Primary Sources as Focus of Analysis of Post-Soviet Fiction -- Writers' Websites Containing Bibliographies.

Primary Sources Informing the Theoretical and Secondary Discussion: Literature and Film -- Secondary Sources: Philosophy, Theory, Criticism and Media Coverage -- Index.