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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Socialist realism"”.
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Socialist Realism in Vietnamese Literature: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Literature and Politics
In this thesis, I argue that socialist realism is by nature more political than literary; in the domain of politics, it is more nationalistic than socialistic; and in the domain of literature, it is more neo-classical or romantic than realist. Over many decades, writers were advised to represent …
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Soviet Photo and the search for proletarian photography, 1926-1937
… Photo eventually became the state’s organ for Socialist Realism in photography, its early years were characterized by stylistic diversity. It played a major role as a forum for the discussion of “proletarian” art during the cultural revolution (ca. 1928–32) and in the formation of the ideas and …
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Lessons from the Kremlin : folklore and children's literature in the socialization of Soviet children, 1932-1945
Officially in 1934, socialist realism emerged in Soviet society as the new cultural aesthetic, providing an artistic framework for all forms of cultural production—art, music, architecture and literature. In the realm of children’s writing, socialist realism had particularly interesting effects on …
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The PUWP's preferences in the contemporary Polish novel, 1959-1985
… novel and its expectations of the form after Socialist Realism (1949-1955). The course of development of Party requirements of the form is traced from 1959, when the Party announced its new operative ideology at the Third Congress, to its last major statement of demands at the Party Writers' …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
… on the concepts of cultural heritage and social realism, by using the form of fiction instead of a critical essay. The first chapter deals with the historical context of the novella. It tries to show Anna Seghers' allegorical depiction of the literary figures of "Nikolai Gogol", "E. T. A. …
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Creativity Despite Duress: Shostakovich and Prokofiev’s Musical Struggles under Soviet Government Restrictions
… and Shostakovich navigated the demands of Socialist Realism by creating works that reinforced socialism, nationalism, and patriotism, striking a delicate balance between state expectations and their personal artistic values. This study explores the tension between political control and …
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Gao Xingjian and Chinese experimental theatre
… has exerted a great impact on the destruction of Socialist realism and Maoist discourses in the political mission of theatre. Gao's experimental theatre is not only one of the earliest attempts to reject the institutionalized spoken-drama theatre which, since the founding of Communist China, has …
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“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception
… to comply with the official ideology of socialist realism. Building on Paul Bekker’s <em>gemeinschaftsbildende Kraft</em> (“community-building power”), key Soviet musicologists such as Ivan Sollertinsky advocated applying a model from the Western symphonic tradition to meet national …
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Holokausto vaizdavimas Icchoko Mero ankstyvojoje kūryboje /
… and the positive hero characteristic of socialist realism undermined and suppressed the suffering of Jewish people.
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Technology, Time, and the State: The Aesthetics of Hydropower in Postcolonial Egypt
… of American abstract expressionism and Soviet socialist realism, employed and synthesized new aesthetic ideas in order to achieve their social and political goals. Fundamentally, this thesis argues that the blurred lines of these aesthetics, like the Aswan High Dam itself, reflect the …
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From a young Bolshevik to a professional writer : A critical study of Wang Meng 's novels with reference to his writing from the 1950s to the 1990s
… established Western critical theories such as: realism, Socialist Realism, modernism, postmodemism and "stream-of-consciousness". It provides a focused textual analysis of a number of Wang Meng's stories that emerged in the broad context of contemporary Chinese literature. It aims to decode a …
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Negotiating the Scope of Postwar Stalinist Novels
… challenges dominant perceptions of literary socialist realism by demonstrating how works of official Soviet literature enjoy more scope for individuality and innovation than is commonly acknowledged by structuralist or dissident readings. It examines how three Stalin Prize-winning novels use …
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Through the Prism of the Wellspring: From National, to Societal, to Individual in Marin Goleminov's String Quartets
… followed by inclusion of societal ideals and socialist aesthetics, finally to arrive at the clear articulation of his own individualized soundworld and perspective. The historical and political context of the time clearly influenced the development of his musical style; however, the mature and …
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"Thoughts that think in straight lines cannot see round corners ... ": transgressing the realist narrative form
… themselves as nineteenth century British realism, nationalist realism and socialist realism, which are denounced, in Marechera's apt phrase, as 'thoughts that think in straight lines .. .'. These creative methods were inculcated into the Zimbabwean psyche through the dual processes of …
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Figurative art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934 : situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture
… social commentaries informed by a philosophy of realism which led 'inevitably' to Socialist Realism. Although a few recent texts warn against oversimplifying this debate, none go far enough in deconstructing the view that there were two groupings diametrically opposed to one another. In fact, …
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An examination of the politico-literary strategies of some Third World writers
… of the aesthetic in Europe. The notion of socialist realism was of particular interest here. Notions of neo-colonialism and cultural imperialism were examined in order to set the context in which "Third World" authors write. The use of the mode of realism by these authors was investigated. …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… of the Soviet regime and the imposition of Socialist Realism as the official literary style in 1934, most critics assumed that the Gothic-fantastic had been expunged from Russian literature. In Konstantin Fedin’s words, the Russian fantastic novel had ‘“умер и закопан в могилу”’. This thesis …
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Parodija ir pastišas posovietinėje Juozo Erlicko prozoje /
… between the writer‘s texts and the works of socialist realism, national Lithuanian literature, and world literature. The analysis suggests that Erlickas’ parody is diffuse, in almost all cases ironic and critical not in relation to the literary hypotext, but in relation to the socio-cultural …
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Art and the artist in the literary works of Elsa Triolet
… and her association with the schools of socialist realism and the "nouveau roman". Part Two examines two traditional novels which portray the creative and metaphorical roles of the artist and his work, showing the constant conflict between private and public lives. In Part Three, I show …
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Malevich’s Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
… moments of sustained state support for proto-socialist realism, at one of the most important museums of Russian art in the Soviet Union, the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow? How are contemporaneously contested identities of the artist, the Russian peasant, and the Soviet citizen reflected and …
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