{"product_id":"sovereign-fictions-poetics-and-politics-in-the-age-of-russian-realism-hardcover","title":"Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism - Hardcover","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\u003eIlya Kliger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of Russian realist fiction reveals a preoccupation with the absolutist state.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In \u003ci\u003eSovereign Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism's distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s, including major works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Goncharov, and Turgenev, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period, including Alexander Druzhinin's \u003ci\u003ePolinka Saks\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), Aleksei Pisemsky's \u003ci\u003eOne Thousand Souls \u003c\/i\u003e(1858), and Vasily Sleptsov's \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction, \u003ci\u003eSovereign Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important intervention in socially inflected theories of the novel and in current thinking on representations of power and historical poetics.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlya Kliger\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, where he is also director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies. Kliger is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePersistent Forms: Practicing Historical Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704128598323,"sku":"9780226831862","price":185.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/iV-B1LC6zV9780226831862.webp?v=1763348262","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/sovereign-fictions-poetics-and-politics-in-the-age-of-russian-realism-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}