TY  - GEN
T1  - Russian experimental fiction : resisting ideology after Utopia
T2  - Princeton legacy library
A1  - Clowes, Edith W.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1993
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn889252773
AB  - In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and Orwell's Animal Farm, they have tested notions of truth, reality, and representation. They have gone beyond their precursors by experimenting with the tensions between ludic and didactic art. Edith Clowes explores these "meta-utopian" narratives, which address a wide range of attitudes toward utopia, to expose the challenge that literary play poses to dogmatism and to elucidate the sense of renewal it can bring to social imagination. Using both structural analysis and reception theory, she introduces readers outside Russia to a fascinating body of literature that includes Aleksandr Zinoviev's The Yawning Heights, Abram Terts's Liubimov, Vladimir Voinovich's Moscow 2042, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's "The New Robinsons.". Not advocating its own utopian alternative to current social realities, meta-utopian fiction investigates the function of a deep human impulse to imagine, project, and enforce alternative social orders. Clowes examines the technical innovations meta-utopian writers have made in style, image, and narrative structure that inform fresh modes of social imagination. Her analysis leads to an inquiry into the intended and real audiences of this fiction, and into the ways its authors try to move them toward more sophisticated social discourse. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
OP  - 253
CN  - PG3096.U94 C56 1993eb
SN  - 9781400863532
SN  - 1400863538
SN  - 9780691032221
SN  - 069103222X
SN  - 0691608105
SN  - 9780691608105
KW  - Russian fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Utopias in literature.
KW  - Experimental fiction, Russian : History and criticism.
KW  - Roman russe : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Utopies dans la littérature.
KW  - utopian literature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Russian & Former Soviet Union.
KW  - Experimental fiction, Russian
KW  - Russian fiction
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -