Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture

✍ Scribed by Mikhail N. Epstein; Alexander A. Genis; Slobodanka Millicent Vladiv-Glover

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 601
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Postmodernism and the Explosive Style of the Twenty-First Century
INTRODUCTION “New Sectarianism” and the Pleasure Principle in Postmodern Russian Culture
Part I THE MAKING OF RUSSIAN POSTMODERNISM
Chapter 1 THE DIALECTICS OF HYPER From Modernism to Postmodernism
Chapter 2 POSTMODERNISM, COMMUNISM, AND SOTS-ART
Chapter 3 THE 1960S AND THE REDISCOVERY OF THE OTHER IN RUSSIAN CULTURE Andrei Bitov
Chapter 4 PERESTROIKA AS A SHIFT IN LITERARY PARADIGM
Part II MANIFESTOS OF RUSSIAN POSTMODERNISM
Literary Manifestos
Chapter 5 THESES ON METAREALISM AND CONCEPTUALISM
Chapter 6 ON OLGA SEDAKOVA AND LEV RUBINSHTEIN
Chapter 7 WHAT IS METAREALISM? Facts and Hypotheses
Chapter 8 WHAT IS A METABOLE? (On the Third Trope)
Chapter 9 LIKE A CORPSE IN THE DESERT Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry
Chapter 10 A CATALOGUE OF NEW POETRIES
Cultural Manifestos
Chapter 11 ESSAYISM An Essay on the Essay
Chapter 12 THE ECOLOGY OF THINKING
Chapter 13 MINIMAL RELIGION
Chapter 14 THE AGE OF UNIVERSALISM
Chapter 15 THE PARADOX OF ACCELERATION
Part III SOCIALIST REALISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Chapter 16 ARCHAIC POSTMODERNISM The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky
Chapter 17 POSTMODERNISM AND SOTS-REALISM From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir Sorokin
Chapter 18 BORDERS AND METAMORPHOSES Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature
Part IV CONCEPTUALISM
Chapter 19 THE NEW MODEL OF DISCOURSE IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN FICTION Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia
Chapter 20 HETEROGENEITY AND THE RUSSIAN POST-AVANT-GARDE The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin
Chapter 21 EMPTINESS AS A TECHNIQUE Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov
Chapter 22 THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIAN CONCEPTUALISM
Part V POSTMODERNISM AND SPIRITUALITY
Chapter 23 POST-ATHEISM From Apophatic Theology to “Minimal Religion”
Chapter 24 ONIONS AND CABBAGES Paradigms of Contemporary Culture
Chapter 25 CHARMS OF ENTROPY AND NEW SENTIMENTALITY The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev
CONCLUSION On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS