Charms of the cynical reason : the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture /

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The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lipovet͡skiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Colección:Cultural revolutions.
Temas:
1900-1999
Russian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Tricksters in literature.
Tricksters in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Soviet Union > History.
Motion pictures > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > Soviet Union > History.
Literature and society > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century.
Roman russe > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Tricksters dans la littérature.
Tricksters au cinéma.
Cinéma > URSS > Histoire.
Littérature et société > URSS > Histoire.
Littérature et société > Russie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Literary studies: general
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Literature and society.
Motion pictures.
Russian fiction.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of Soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such "cultural idioms" as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Stierlitz, and others. The steadily increasing charisma of Soviet tricksters from the 1920s to the 2000s is indicative of at least two fundamental features of both the Soviet and post-Soviet societies. First, tricksters reflect the constant presence of irresolvable contradictions and yawning gaps within the Soviet (as well as post-Soviet) social universe. Secondly, these characters epitomize the realm of cynical culture thus far unrecognized in Russian studies. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the Soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s. --Book Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.
ISBN:9781618111357
1618111353
9781618118509
1618118501
9781934843451
1934843458

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