{"product_id":"the-house-in-russian-literature-a-mythopoetic-exploration-9789042025493","title":"The House in Russian Literature: A Mythopoetic Exploration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe domestic theme has a tremendous anthropological, literary and cultural significance. The purpose of this book is to analyse and interpret the most important realisations and tendencies of this thematic complex in the history of Russian literature. It is the first systematic book-length exploration of the meaning and development of the House theme in Russian literature of the past 200 years. It studies the ideological, psychological and moral meanings which Russian cultural and literary tradition have invested in the house or projected on it in literary texts. Central to this study’s approach is the concept of the House Myth, consisting of a set of basic fabular elements and a set of general types of House images. This House Myth provides the general point of reference from which the literary works were analyzed and compared. With the help of this analytical procedure characteristics of individual authors could be described as well as recurrent patterns and features discerned in the way Russian literature dealt with the House and its thematics, thus reflecting characteristics of Russian literary world pictures, Russian mentalities and Russian attitudes towards life. This book is of interest for students of Russian literature as well as for those interested in the House as a cultural and literary topic, in the semiotics of literature, and in relations between culture, anthropology and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction Part I. What is a House?  The House as Archetype and Archetope of Human Culture. Its Origins and Universal Features in Relation to the Indo-European Tradition The House Myth and the House as a Model of the World. Some Observations about the Russian Cultural Tradition  The Psychopoetics of the House and Archaic Thinking  The House and its Functions in Structuring Narrative and Poetic Worlds: the House as Myth  Part II. The House Myth in 19th and 20th Century Russian Literature and Culture Two Strong Images  The Domostroi and Some Other Old Russian Reflexes: Ostrovskii, Dostoevskii, Leskov, Zamiatin  Peter the Great’s Window on Europe  Chaadaev’s Homelessness. The Beginning of a Long Tradition  Some Diachronic Considerations. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. The Natural School  The Slavophile Domus  Pushkin’s Houses. The Craving for Homeliness  Lermontov’s Cosmic Homelessness  Gogol’. The Bachelor, and the House as a Box  The House Myth Between the Natural School and Realism. From the City to the Countryside  The Russian Estate. The Domus Myth and the ‘Nests of the Gentry’  Turgenev and the Domus  Goncharov. Homelessness Between Arcadian Dreams and Precipices  Saltykov-Shchedrin. Houses of Death  Tolstoi and Family Life  Bunin. Remembering the House. The Body in the World  Dostoevskii. The Underground Man and the Accidental Family  The End of Realism. The Onset of Modernism. New Anxieties  Garshin’s World as Prison  Chekhov. Ambiguous Dachas and Mansions  Symbolism. Demonic Urbanism and Catastrophic Expectations  Briusov and Blok  Belyi’s Cosmic House. The Big Bang and the Temple of the Body  From Symbolism to Futurism  Guro. A New House and a New Life. The Magic of a Child’s Vision  Khlebnikov. The House of Language. A Body to Live in  Maiakovskii. Realising the Metaphor. The Self as a House  Zabolotskii. Modernist. Archaist  The Catastrophe. The Loss of the Centre  Pil’niak. Life and Death of the House  Zamiatin. The Cave Myth Revisited  Platonov’s Paradoxes and Pseudologics. Negative Spaces and Houses on the Move  The House and Socialism. Trifonov, Chukovskaia and Akhmatova  Anti-Houses. Under the Doom of the Kommunalka. Deformations of the Utopian House  Bulgakov. The House as a Metaphysical Home  Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag World. ‘Matriona’s House’  Erofeev. Venichka’s Homelessness in the Soviet Universe  Sorokin’s Roman. A Postmodernist Attempts the Destruction of the Domus  Makanin’s Underground. Homeless Under a Roof  Conclusions  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210905084247,"sku":"9789042025493","price":166.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-house-in-russian-literature-a-mythopoetic-exploration-9789042025493","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}