Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union (eBook)

Riccardo Nicolosi, Brigitte Obermayr (Herausgeber)

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2024
266 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-632-9 (ISBN)

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In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative. The call for a Russian Stevenson (Lev Lunts) profoundly impacted the theory of prose and different notions of the literary hero. It also led theorists like Shklovsky to write dime novels and convinced writers of various backgrounds to explore Soviet topography in a new light, harnessing the synergies between imperialism and adventure. Despite the inherently anarchist nature of adventure and its bourgeois offspring, the magic of adventure found its way into socialist realism under different guises, demanding recognition and resisting neglect, especially in the case of socialist realist film.This book offers a critical historical reconstruction of the early Soviet adventure craze and its lasting popularity in socialist realism. It also offers innovative theoretical propositions for a philological analysis of adventure fiction that arise from this unique historical context.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: adventure fiction • adventure literature • dime-novels • Early Socialist Realism • Early Soviet Cinema • Early Soviet Prose • historical reconstruction • imperialism • Lev Lunts • literary hero • Mikhail Bakhtin • philological analysis • russian formalism • Russian Stevenson • Russophone avantgarde literature • Russophone avantgarde prose • Socialist Realism • socialist realist film • Soviet literary theorists • Soviet topography • Soviet writers • theory of prose • Viktor Shklovsky
• ISBN-13: 979-8-88719-632-9 / 9798887196329