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Book SynopsisA critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language AssociationThe writing and teaching of Russian literary and cultural history have changed little since the 1980s. In Search of Russian Modernism challenges the basic premises of Russian modernist studies, removing the aura of certainty surrounding the analytical tools at our disposal and suggesting audacious alternatives to the conventional ways of thinking and speaking about Russian and transnational modernism. Drawing on methodological breakthroughs in Anglo-American new modernist studies, Leonid Livak explores Russian and transnational modernism as a story of a self-identified and self-conscious interpretive community that bestows a range of meanings on human experience. Livak's approach opens modernist studies to integrative and interdisciplinary analysis, including the extension of scholarly in
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction. Modernism as a Culture
Chapter 1. The Toponymical Labyrinth of Russian Modernist Culture
Chapter 2. The Errant Compass Rose of Russian Modernist Studies
Chapter 3. Russian Modernism in Time and Space
Chapter 4. Navigating Russia’s Cultures of Modernity
Chapter 5. Russian Modernism in the Cultural Market
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
