The Irony of the Ideal : Paradoxes of Russian Literature.

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Explores the most tormenting problems of Russian literature in provocative engagements with its major authors, from Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoevsky to Nabokov, Platonov and post-Soviet postmodernists. Focuses on the ironies and paradoxes that transform sublime ideals into their opposites and trigger t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Epstein, Mikhail
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2017.
Series:Ars Rossica Ser.
Subjects:
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Paradox in literature.
Littérature russe > Histoire et critique.
Paradoxe dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Paradox in literature
Russian literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator's Note
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Titanic and the Demonic: Faust's Heirs
  • 1. Faust and Peter on the Seashore: From Goethe to Pushkin
  • 2. The Bronze Horseman and the Golden Fish: Pushkin's Fairy Tale-Poem
  • 3. The Motherland-Witch: The Irony of Style in Nikolai Gogol
  • Part II: The Great in the Little: Bashmachkin's Offspring
  • 1. The Saintly Scribe: Akaky Bashmachkin and Prince Myshkin
  • 2. The Figure of Repetition: The Philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and His Literary Prototypes
  • 3. The Little Man in a Case: The Bashmachkin-Belikov Syndrome
  • Part III: The Irony of Harmony
  • 1. Childhood and the Myth of Harmony
  • 2. The Defamiliarization of Lev Tolstoy
  • 3. Soviet Heroics and the Oedipus Complex
  • Part IV: Being as Nothingness
  • 1. A Farewell to Objects, or, the Nabokovian in Nabokov
  • 2. The Secret of Being and Nonbeing in Vladimir Nabokov
  • 3. Andrei Platonov between Nonbeing and Resurrection
  • 4. Dream and Battle: Oblomov, Korchagin, Kopenkin
  • Part V: The Silence of the Word
  • 1. Language and Silence as Forms of Being
  • 2. The Ideology and Magic of the Word: Anton Chekhov, Daniil Kharms, and Vladimir Sorokin
  • 3. The Russian Code of Silence: Politics and Mysticism
  • Part VI: Madness and Reason
  • 1. Methods of Madness and Madness as a Method: Poets and Philosophers
  • 2. Poetry as Ecstasy and as Interpretation: Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandel'shtam
  • 3. The Lyric of Idiotic Reason: Folkloric Philosophy in Dmitrii Prigov
  • The Cyclical Development of Russian Literature
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names

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