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Pelevin and unfreedom : poetics, politics, metaphysics /

"This is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin's sustained reflections on the subversion of freedom"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khagi, Sofya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Colección:Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Fifty Shapes of Grid
  • Part I: Techno-consumer dystopia
  • Chapter One. After the Fall
  • Chapter Two. Language Games
  • Part II: Posthumanism
  • Chapter Three. Biomorphic Monstrosities
  • Chapter Four. Can Digital Men Think?
  • Part III: History
  • Chapter Five. Not with a Bang but a Whimper
  • Chapter Six. Butterflies in Sunflower Oil
  • Part IV: Intertext and Irony
  • Chapter Seven. Somersaults of Thought
  • Chapter Eight. The Total Art of Irony
  • Conclusion. A Christmas Carol with Qualifiers
  • Notes