Flesh to Metal : Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution /

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"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good-or very bad-has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hellebust, Rolf
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Letterkunde.
Russische Revolutie.
Technology in literature.
Russian literature.
Myth in literature.
Metals in literature.
Literature and technology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Metaux dans la litterature.
Mythe dans la litterature.
Technologie dans la litterature.
Litterature et technologie > URSS.
Litterature russe > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and technology > Soviet Union.
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Soviet Union.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good-or very bad-has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth century. Russia was no exception."--The introductionIn the Soviet Union, it seems, armoring oneself against the world did not suffice-it was best to become metal itself. In his engaging and accessible book, Rolf Hellebust explores the aesthetic and ideological function of the metallization of the revolutionary body as revealed in Soviet literature, art, and politics. His book shows how the significance of this modern myth goes far beyond the immediate issue of the enthusiasm with which the Bolsheviks welcomed such a symbolic transfiguration and that of our own uneasy attraction to the images of metal flesh and machine-men. Hellebust's literary examples range from the famous (Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago) to the forgotten (early Soviet proletarian poets). To these he adds a mix of non-Russian references, from creation myths to comic book superheroes, medieval alchemy to Moby-Dick. He includes readings of posters, sculpture, and political discourse as well as cross-cultural comparisons to revolutionary France, industrial-age America, and Nazi Germany. The result is a fascinating portrait of the ultimate symbols of dehumanizing modernity, as refracted through the prism of utopian humanism
Descripción Física:1 online resource (234 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501725586

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