{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-state-reader-9780804728546","title":"The Making of the State Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a history of the shaping of the reader of Soviet literature, for in Soviet culture the reader was never a \"consumer of books\" in the Western sense. According to the doctrine of Socialist Realism, the reader was a subject of education, to be reforged and molded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA note on transliteration  1. Overcoming the reader: the aesthetics of reception - á  la Sovie;tique  2. Grains of humanity  3. The disaster of mediocre taste  or, who 'thought up' Socialist Realism? The reader as critic  4. Storing up readers: the school and the ideology of literature  5. The power and powerlessness of books: from 'cultural revolution' to 'cultural construction'  6. The end of a perspective: the library - turning loaves into stones  7. The art of belonging to the people: from the empirical to the ideal reader  8. Korchagin's happiness: the ideal reader  Notes  Bibliography  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405513630039,"sku":"9780804728546","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804728546.jpg?v=1730492472","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-state-reader-9780804728546","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}