CONTENTS: Katharine Hodgson: The Appeal of Empire and the Attempt to Propose a New Nationalist Canon – Katharine Hodgson: The Canon of War Poetry and Commemoration, 1995–2010 – Katharine Hodgson: Village Poetry: Reinventing a Lost World – Alexandra Smith: Russian Gulag Poetry and its Reception: Marg...

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1. Verfasser:	Hodgson, Katharine (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Smith, Alexandra 1959- (MitwirkendeR)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Peter Lang [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Russian transformations: literature, thought, culture 7
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1991-2018 Kanon Russisch Lyrik Nationalbewusstsein Russland Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	CONTENTS: Katharine Hodgson: The Appeal of Empire and the Attempt to Propose a New Nationalist Canon – Katharine Hodgson: The Canon of War Poetry and Commemoration, 1995–2010 – Katharine Hodgson: Village Poetry: Reinventing a Lost World – Alexandra Smith: Russian Gulag Poetry and its Reception: Marginalizing National Trauma – Alexandra Smith: Rediscovering the Religious and Elegiac Roots of Russian Lyric Poetry: Soviet Underground Poets as Anna Akhmatova’s Heirs – Alexandra Smith: The Pushkin Myth in New Contexts: Post-Soviet Rewriting of the Tradition – Alexandra Smith: Post-Soviet Parody, Ironic Musings, and a New Poetic Canon – Alexandra Smith/Katharine Hodgson: Conclusion: Russian National Identity between Triumphant and Traumatic Memory The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it should be remembered. The publication of previously barely known underground and émigré literary works presented an opportunity to reappraise «official» Soviet literature and re-evaluate twentieth-century Russian literature as a whole.This book explores changes to the poetry canon – an instrument for maintaining individual and collective memory – to show how cultural memory has informed the evolution of post-Soviet Russian identity. It examines how concerns over identity are shaping the canon, and in which directions, and analyses the interrelationship between national identity (whether ethnic, imperial, or civic) and attempts to revise the canon. This study situates the discussion of national identity within the cultural field and in the context of canon formation as a complex expression of aesthetic, political, and institutional factors. It encompasses a period of far-reaching upheaval in Russia and reveals the tension between a desire for change and a longing for stability that was expressed by attempts to reshape the literary canon and, by doing so, to create a new twentieth-century past and the foundations of a new identity for the nation
Beschreibung:	Online-Ressource (x, 520 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781787079038 9781787079137 9781787079144
DOI:	10.3726/b11665