Reading Backwards : : an advance retrospective on Russian literature / / edited by Muireann Maguire, Timothy Langen.
"This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of 'anticipatory plagiarism'--developed in the 1960s by the 'Oulipo' group of French writers and thinkers--as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influen...
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