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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Soviet literature"”.
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Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
My dissertation, “Technologies of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s,” examines the vital role technology and machines – both actual and imagined – play in defining the ‘new Soviet man’ and ‘new Soviet woman’ in early Soviet culture. As I argue in my dissertation, the period …
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Russia Eternal: Recalling The Imperial Era In Late- And Post-Soviet Literature And Culture
… been a prominent facet of social life in post-Soviet Russia. My dissertation aims to explain this phenomenon and its meaning by tracking contemporary Russia’s cultural memory of the Imperial era. By close-reading both popular and influential cultural texts, as well as analyzing their conditions …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs in the literature of Soviet Russia between 1920 and 1940. Nineteenth-century Russian literature was characterized by the almost universal assimilation of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of Western writers such as E.T.A. …
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Negotiating the Scope of Postwar Stalinist Novels
… 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 the material of recent history, their predecessor works, …
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Parodija ir pastišas posovietinėje Juozo Erlicko prozoje /
… thesis “Parody and Pastiche in the Post-Soviet Prose of Juozas Erlickas” examines the expression of parody and pastiche, the relationship between them, and the nature of the relationship with the hypotexts in the prose of Erlickas. Due to the breadth of the topic, this work also aims to …
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Aspects of the fantastic grotesque in the works of V. Mayakovsky, M. Bulgakov and E. Schwartz
The grotesque in Soviet literature ls a field of study whlch has been neglected both in the Soviet Union and the West. In the Soviet Union interest in the grotesque reached a high point in the formalist criticism of the twenties, since the grotesque is one of the most clearly expressed devices of …
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Vasilii Shukshin, the writer and his times
… between Shukshin's prose and the reality of Soviet life. The review of his critical articles and essays gives an insight into his thoughts about the changes which Khrushchev's and Brezhnev's eras produced in the spirit of the society and in the individual. Also studied was the effect which …
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
… in the Absurdist fiction of Cold War America and Soviet Russia. The central hypothesis informing this research maintains that, despite the ideology of moral and cultural “Otherness” constructed and reinforced by both nations throughout much of twentieth century, the US and the Soviet Union more …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
The first post-World War II generation of Soviet Russian writers was faced with a crisis of language even more pervasive and serious than the "Crisis of Symbolism" at the beginning of the 20th century: the level of abstraction and formulaic speech used in public venues had become such that words …
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The "virtual density" theory of neutronics
… Although primitive forms of this theory exist in Soviet literature, they are only applicable to cases in which entire cores swell uniformly. Thus, we conceive a much more general and pragmatic form of "virtual density" theory to model non-uniform and localized geometry distortions via perturbation …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
Do we treat 1990s as a gap, a rupture between the Soviet past and the post-Soviet present? Post-Soviet film and fiction certainly stage the break up of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet rule in this way. Post-Soviet culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest …
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Cogito ergo vir sum: The “men’s question” from the perspective of the post-Soviet Russian intelligentsia of the 2000s
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
… to the study of subjectivity and authenticity in Soviet dissident literature and in the Ukrainian tradition of metaphysical poetry.