Toxic voices : the villain from early Soviet literature to Socialist realism /

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Author / Creator:	Laursen, Eric, 1957-
Imprint:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2013 ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature. Studies in Russian literature and theory.
Subject:	Villains in literature. Socialist realism in literature. Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Russian literature. Socialist realism in literature. Villains in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13581763

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ISBN:	9780810166356 0810166356 9780810128651 0810128659
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-155) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Satire and the fantastic, vital literary genres in the 1920s, are often thought to have fallen victim to the official adoption of socialist realism. In this book, the author contends that these subversive genres did not just vanish or move underground. Instead, key strategies of each survive to sustain the villain of socialist realism. The author argues that the judgment of satire and the hesitation associated with the fantastic produce a narrative obsession with controlling the villain's influence. In identifying a crucial connection between the questioning, subversive literature of the 1920s and the socialist realists, the author produces an insightful revision of Soviet literary history.
Other form:	Print version: Laursen, Eric, 1957- Toxic voices. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2013

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