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Russian Classical Literature Today : the Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture /

This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture. It outlines processes of current canon-formation in a situation of the expiration of a literature-centric cul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Li͡ut͡skanov, Ĭordan, Manolakev, Khristo, Rusev, Radostin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture. It outlines processes of current canon-formation in a situation of the expiration of a literature-centric culture that has been imbued with specific messianism and its doubles. The book implements Pierre Bourdieu''s theory of the cultural field, focussing on a field''s constitutive pursuit of autonomy and on its flexible resistance to the double pressure of the political field and the economic field. It pr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9781443861823
1443861820
1322144605
9781322144603
9781443859042
1443859044