{"product_id":"russian-experimental-fiction-resisting-ideology-after-utopia-paperback","title":"Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith W. Clowes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e, and Orwell's \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, they have tested notions of truth, reality, and representation. They have gone beyond their precursors by experimenting with the tensions between ludic and didactic art. Edith Clowes explores these \"meta-utopian\" narratives, which address a wide range of attitudes toward utopia, to expose the challenge that literary play poses to dogmatism and to elucidate the sense of renewal it can bring to social imagination. Using both structural analysis and reception theory, she introduces readers outside Russia to a fascinating body of literature that includes Aleksandr Zinoviev's \u003ci\u003eThe Yawning Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, Abram Terts's \u003ci\u003eLiubimov\u003c\/i\u003e, Vladimir Voinovich's \u003ci\u003eMoscow 2042\u003c\/i\u003e, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's \"The New Robinsons.\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNot advocating its own utopian alternative to current social realities, meta-utopian fiction investigates the function of a deep human impulse to imagine, project, and enforce alternative social orders. Clowes examines the technical innovations meta-utopian writers have made in style, image, and narrative structure that inform fresh modes of social imagination. Her analysis leads to an inquiry into the intended and real audiences of this fiction, and into the ways its authors try to move them toward more sophisticated social discourse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1993. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A valuable book that offers to American readers new and sometimes exciting cultural and literary material, which remains largely unknown outside Russia.\"\u003cb\u003e--Boris Gasparov, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702504419635,"sku":"9780691608105","price":87.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WXVlQWRzajdDSHJtRkg0eFBZM3BvZz09.webp?v=1763308853","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/russian-experimental-fiction-resisting-ideology-after-utopia-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}