Reflecting trends within the field of Slavic studies over the years, the books in the SRLT series provide perspectives on Russian literature from all periods and genres, as well as its place in the broader culture. The influences of political, social, and artistic movements are explored—socialist realism, Stalinism, the cold war, glasnost, sots-art, Russian minimalism. Writers on whom titles in this series focus include Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Zamyatin, Pasternak, and Nabokov.
Series editors: Caryl Emerson, Gary Saul Morson, William Mills Todd III, Andrew Wachtel, and Justin McCabe Weir.
In The Novel in the Age of Disintegration, Kate Holland shows that Dostoevsky aimed to use the form of the novel as a means of depicting the disintegration caused by various crises in Russian society in the 1860s.
What makes characters seem real? This book explores the ways Tolstoy and Dostoevsky created the illusion of autonomous characters, through techniques that paradoxically hindered the writers’ ambitions for the novel as a genre.
The book advances an original and provocative argument about the formation, career, and legacies of Vladimir Nabokov, for whom artistic and moral acts served as testaments to free will.
Tsvetaeva’s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word explores the rich theme of the myth of Orpheus as master narrative for poetic inspiration and creative survival in the life and work of Marina Tsvetaeva.
Anna Schur incorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky’s thinking was shaped not only by his Christian ethics but also by the debates on punishment theory and practice unfolding during his lifetime.
Word Play focuses on the intertwined fates of children’s literature and underground poetry throughout the Soviet period. Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor.
This is the first book-length English-language study of Victor Pelevin, one of the most significant and popular Russian authors of the post-Soviet era. The text explores Pelevin’s sustained reflections on the subversion of freedom.
Silence and the Rest argues that throughout its entire history, Russian poetry can be read as an argument for “verbal skepticism,” positing a long-running dialogue between poets, philosophers, and theorists central to the antiverbal strain of Russian culture.
Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities...
This book argues that Stalin chose Writers’ Union leaders, such as Maxim Gorky and Alexandr Fadeyev, whose psychologies he could exploit. He ensured their loyalty with material benefits but also with a philosophical argument calculated to assuage their moral qualms about supporting the regime.
Reflecting trends within the field of Slavic studies over the years, the books in the SRLT series provide perspectives on Russian literature from all periods and genres, as well as its place in the broader culture. The influences of political, social, and artistic movements are explored—socialist realism, Stalinism, the cold war, glasnost, sots-art, Russian minimalism. Writers on whom titles in this series focus include Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, Zamyatin, Pasternak, and Nabokov.
Series editors: Caryl Emerson, Gary Saul Morson, William Mills Todd III, Andrew Wachtel, and Justin McCabe Weir.
