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The vortex that unites us : versions of totality in Russian literature /

"This book is about the persistent ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into the totality of an artwork. The teeming and paradoxical diversity of totalizing figures in the Russian canon, often in alliance with ideologies like the totalitarian state or enlightenment reason, s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Emery, Jacob, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Colección:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the totalities of Russian literature
  • Versions of possession: ghost, demon, idea, discourse
  • The epidemic: the infectious imagination of Leo Tolstoy
  • The panorama: world Literature and universal language
  • The orchestra: dictation and dictatorship
  • The market: Humbert Humbert as mad man.