In this Book
- Toxic Voices: The Villain from Early Soviet Literature to Socialist Realism
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
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. Eric Laursen 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. Laursen 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, Laursen produces an insightful revision of Soviet literary history.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Note on Transliteration
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Chapter Four: Lost in Translation
- pp. 91-119
- Conclusion: Writers Forward!
- pp. 120-124
- Bibliography
- pp. 147-156
- About the Author
- p. 186
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810166356
Related ISBN(s)
9780810128651
MARC Record
OCLC
867739728
Pages
185
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No