...Marijeta Bozovic Abstract The newest Russian poetic avant-garde wields highly aware appropriations and remediations in stark opposition to mainstream cultural phenomena, including nostalgia for the imperial and militant aestheticized politics of the Soviet Union. Efforts to think leftward beyond...

...Wilson T. Bell; Thomas Lahusen The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture . By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Wilson T...

...Katerina Clark Abstract A major lacuna in Pascale Casanova’s account of world literature in her World Republic of Letters is the Soviet venture into establishing a “world literature” ( mirovaia literatura ) to be centered not in Paris but in Moscow. This aim was most actively pursued between...

...Ivar Spector Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 1 This article is based upon a paper read on June 28, 1953. at the Conference of American and Canadian Slavicists at Ann Arbor, and on a more extensive study of Soviet literature now in preparation. THE CONTROVERSY...

... of the twentieth century, after its popularity had already waned in the West and in Soviet Russia. This article examines the Chinese rendering of revolutionary romanticism during the Mao and post-Mao periods. In particular, it focuses on Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s 1986 short story “Revolutionary Romanticism...

..., Isherwood’s place in the leftist and queer canons must be reconstituted, as should the relationship between certain strains of Soviet Marxism and queer writing of the period. Far from a lukewarm socialist in his youth who later became a middlebrow bourgeois figure in gay literature, Isherwood offers a queer...

... Literature (1880-1940). By ERNEST J. SIMMONS.Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1943. Pp. v + 93. $1.00. In this little book Professor Simmons has given an excellent brief sketch of Russian literature from 1880 to 1917. His treatment of the Soviet period is one of the most lucid...

...Laura Chrisman Blind spots aside, At Penpoint is an engrossing and provocative book that illuminates an important archive and challenges humanities scholars of all midcentury regions to reconfigure their fields. Neither should the political-economic differences between American and Soviet...

... Russia, as seen “from the double perspective of a cultural critic and a former Leningrader, a resident of a communal apartment who often forgot to turn off the lights in the communal closet, earning severe scoldings from the watchful neighbors” (2).Boym left the then Soviet Union in 1980 when she...

.... In this little book Professor Simmons has given an excellent brief sketch of Russian literature from 1880 to 1917. His treatment of the Soviet period is one of the most lucid that has been prepared, but the material is very obstinate and complicated, and the author has written definitely from the Soviet...

... later became untenable. Preeminent in China only between the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the Sino-Soviet estrangement in the late 1950s, socialist cosmopolitanism nevertheless molded Chinese culture in its day and still influences the arts and the media. Volland addresses...

... of Latvian poetry, l7ze Tricolour Sun. In this book he has compiled a brief synopsis and outline of all the languages in the Soviet Union, but he has omitted such languages as Finnish, Rumanian, Gypsy, etc., because they “have their focus of characterization outside the Soviet frontiers” (p...

... University. He is author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France,1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias (1996) and is completing a book on marginal masculinities in seventeenth-century France. Reviews The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny...

... at the University of California, Irvine. She is completing a book titled American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865 . Reviews The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage...

... Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. In his introduction to The Making of the State Writer, Evgeny Dobrenko argues that most available histories of Soviet...

... and the Social Moorings of Poetry (2003) and is working on a study of how readers perform what they know about emotion. Reviews The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford...

... and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. In his introduction to The Making of the State Writer, Evgeny Dobrenko argues that most available histories of Soviet literature “amount...

...). Reviews The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. In his introduction to The Making of the State Writer, Evgeny Dobrenko argues...

... . Reviews The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. In his introduction to The Making of the State Writer, Evgeny Dobrenko argues...

.... Canon and Ideology There is no denying that canonicity can be closely related to ideology and politics. The translation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s work was prompted by the authors’ canonical status in the Soviet Union. The appearance in 1920 of The Communist Manifesto, translated...