| Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism Contributor(s): Laursen, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810128659 ISBN-13: 9780810128651 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.709 |
| LCCN: 2012022488 |
| Series: Northwestern University Press Studies in Russian Literature and Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (0.90 lbs) 186 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. Eric Laursen contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground. Instead, key strategies of each survive to sustain the villain of socialist realism. Laursen argues that the judgment of satire and the hesitation associated with the fantastic produce a narrative obsession with controlling the villain's influence. In identifying a crucial connection between the questioning, subversive literature of the 1920s and the socialist realists, Laursen produces an insightful revision of Soviet literary history. |