Description
Book SynopsisPostmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The reader will find here articles about classical subversive texts (such as Nabokov’s
Lolita), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films. Other articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism, and contemporary trends of “complex” literature, as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes (the Strugatsky’s progressors). The book will be interesting for teachers and scholars of contemporary Russian literature and culture; it can be used both in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Trade Review“In recent years, few scholars have transformed the fields of Russian and Slavic literary studies as rigorously as Mark Lipovetsky has. With
Postmodern Crises, he unpacks the interconnections between intellectual and popular cultures and politics in contemporary Russia in a series of erudite, nuanced, nonessentialist, and—invariably!—rhetorically powerful analytical inquiries. Scholars, students, philosophers, and politicians who want to understand the crisis of postmodern paradigms, contemporary Russian literature and art, and the political crises of Putin's Russia: read this book.” -- Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam
Table of Contents
- Preface
- LITERATURE
- The War of Discourses: Lolita and the Failure of a Transcendental Project
- The Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today
- The Progressor between the Imperial and the Colonial
- Cycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian Literature
- Flеshing/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin’s Master Trope
- Pussy Riot as the Trickstar
- The Formal Is Political
- FILM
- Post-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s–Early 2000s
- War as the Family Value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein by Valery Todorovsky
- A Road of Violence: My Joy by Sergei Loznitsa
- In Denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by Aleksandr Veledinsky
- Lost in Translation: Short Stories by Mikhail Segal
- Works Cited
