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Charms of the cynical reason : the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture / Mark Lipovetsky
(Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth century)

Material Type E-Book
Publisher Boston : Academic Studies Press
Year 2011
Language English
Size 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations

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URL E-Book 電子ブック(EBSCO: eBook Open Access Collection)
EB2200054
9781618111357

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Notes The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of Soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such "cultural idioms" as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Stierlitz, and others. The steadily increasing charisma of Soviet tricksters from the 1920s to the 2000s is indicative of at least two fundamental features of both the Soviet and post-Soviet societies. First, tricksters reflect the constant presence of irresolvable contradictions and yawning gaps within the Soviet (as well as post-Soviet) social universe. Secondly, these characters epitomize the realm of cynical culture thus far unrecognized in Russian studies. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the Soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s. --Book Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index
Authors *Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N.
Subjects LCSH:Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
LCSH:Tricksters in literature
LCSH:Tricksters in motion pictures
LCSH:Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Motion pictures -- 20th century. -- Russia (Federation) -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Literature and society -- Soviet Union -- History  All Subject Search
LCSH:Literature and society -- 20th century. -- Russia (Federation) -- History  All Subject Search
BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union  All Subject Search
BISACSH:PHILOSOPHY -- General  All Subject Search
FREE:Literature and society
FREE:Motion pictures
FREE:Russian fiction
FREE:Tricksters in literature
FREE:Tricksters in motion pictures
FREE:Literary studies: general
FREE:Russia (Federation)
FREE:Soviet Union
LCSH:Electronic book
FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc
FREE:History
BSH:Electronic books
FREE:1900-1999
Classification DC22:891.73/409352
ID ED00001237
ISBN 9781618111357

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