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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Bakhtin's ideas are then placed in dialogic relation to the works of several important writers of modern Russian fiction, including Vassily Aksyonov, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Andrei Bitov, and Sasha Sokolov.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Reading Bakhtin Dialogically Dialogism, Carnival, and Chronotope in the Fiction of Vassily Aksyonov: A Bakhtin Primer "Look Both Ways": Double-Voiced Satire in the Work of Ilf and Petrov Language, Genre, and Satire in the Works of Mikhail Zoshchenko Good and Evil, Truth and Lie: Dualism and Dialogism in the Fiction of Yuz Aleshkovsky The House that Bitov Built: Postmodernism and Stalinism in Pushkin House All-Purpose Parody: Sasha Sokolov's Astrophobia Works Cited Index
