{"product_id":"postmodern-crises-from-lolita-to-pussy-riot-9781644696651","title":"Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostmodern Crises\u003c\/i\u003e collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky's articles on Russian literature and film.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 classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the leading scholar on Russian postmodernism, Lipovetsky has gathered in this volume a range of texts written over the last 20 years that address critical moments in Soviet and Russian cultural history. Whether writing on the prose of Nabokov and Sorokin, on Pussy Riot, or on the films of Loznitsa and Todorovsky, Lipovetsky offers tantalizing readings through a lens that reveals the texts' potential for fragmentation and destabilization. Lipovetsky's analysis is always profound, but this volume shows the breadth of his vision, both in the range of genres and the timescale covered.\" \"The most authoritative and insightful expert of modern Russian literature and culture, Mark Lipovetsky suggests in his new book an original view of the main trends of development of Russian culture and a fresh interpretation of a number of key literary texts and films. For Lipovetsky, postmodern theory offers a unique point from which to meditate on the overall dynamic of modern Russian culture. This fascinating work of theoretical boldness and real imagination enables us to experience Soviet and post-Soviet values and sensibilities and will be indispensable for anyone who is interested in contemporary Russian culture.\" \"In recent years, few scholars have transformed the fields of Russian and Slavic literary studies as rigorously as Mark Lipovetsky has. With \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Crises\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The War of Discourses: \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e and the Failure of a Transcendental Project\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The \u003ci\u003eProgressor\u003c\/i\u003e between the Imperial and the Colonial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Cycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Flеshing\/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin’s Master Trope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Pussy Riot as the Trickstar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Formal Is Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFILM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Post-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s–Early 2000s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e War as the Family Value: \u003ci\u003eMy Stepbrother Frankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e by Valery Todorovsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Road of Violence: \u003ci\u003eMy Joy\u003c\/i\u003e by Sergei Loznitsa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Denial: \u003ci\u003eThe Geographer Drank His Globe Away\u003c\/i\u003e by Aleksandr Veledinsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lost in Translation: \u003ci\u003eShort Stories\u003c\/i\u003e by Mikhail Segal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Works Cited\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359912427863,"sku":"9781644696651","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644696651.jpg?v=1754126093","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postmodern-crises-from-lolita-to-pussy-riot-9781644696651","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}