On Russian Soil : Myth and Materiality /

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"On Russian Soil explores how long-established myths of soil were reinvented for the modern age. At once a biography of a material object and a work of intellectual and cultural history, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Russian attitudes to soil from the early nineteenth to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erley, Mieka (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human ecology.
Cultural landscapes.
Soils > Mythology > Russia.
Cultural landscapes > Russia.
Soils > Philosophy.
Human ecology > Russia.
Russia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Groundwork
  • Native soil: the roots of the Herderian organic nation
  • Matter: models of soil and society
  • Dirt: dirty literature
  • Sediment: Soviet construction on asian soil
  • Wasteland: Platonov's dialectics of waste and recuperation
  • Virgin land: the libidinal economy of virgin land
  • Beyond earth.

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