Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot

Mark Lipovetsky

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2017

Postmodern Crises

From Lolita to Pussy Riot

Mark Lipovetsky
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

In the series Ars Rossica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618115591

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About this book

Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture.

Author / Editor information

Mark Lipovetsky is professor and chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and eight books, as well as co-editor of fifteen volumes on Russian literature and culture. Currently, Lipovetsky is working on a critical biography of Dmitry Prigov and serves as the editor of the poet's collected works. In 2014, Lipovetsky received an award of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages for the outstanding contribution to scholarship.

Reviews

Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam:
“In recent years, few scholars have transformed the fields of Russian and Slavic literary studies as rigorously as Mark Lipovetsky has. With Postmodern Crises, he unpacks the interconnections between intellectual and popular cultures and politics in contemporary Russia in a series of erudite, nuanced, nonessentialist, and—invariably!—rhetorically powerful analytical inquiries. Scholars, students, philosophers, and politicians who want to understand the crisis of postmodern paradigms, contemporary Russian literature and art, and the political crises of Putin's Russia: read this book.”

Evgeny Dobrenko, University of Sheffield:
“The most authoritative and insightful expert of modern Russian literature and culture, Mark Lipovetsky suggests in his new book an original view of the main trends of development of Russian culture and a fresh interpretation of a number of key literary texts and films. For Lipovetsky, postmodern theory offers a unique point from which to meditate on the overall dynamic of modern Russian culture. This fascinating work of theoretical boldness and real imagination enables us to experience Soviet and post-Soviet values and sensibilities and will be indispensable for anyone who is interested in contemporary Russian culture.”

Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth University:
“As the leading scholar on Russian postmodernism, Lipovetsky has gathered in this volume a range of texts written over the last 20 years that address critical moments in Soviet and Russian cultural history. Whether writing on the prose of Nabokov and Sorokin, on Pussy Riot, or on the films of Loznitsa and Todorovsky, Lipovetsky offers tantalizing readings through a lens that reveals the texts’ potential for fragmentation and destabilization. Lipovetsky’s analysis is always profound, but this volume shows the breadth of his vision, both in the range of genres and the timescale covered.”

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	7
Preface Open Access Download PDF	8
LITERATURE
The War of Discourses: Lolita and the Failure of a Transcendental Project Open Access Download PDF	13
The Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today Open Access Download PDF	33
The Progressor between the Imperial and the Colonial Open Access Download PDF	53
Cycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian Literature Open Access Download PDF	87
Flеshing/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin’s Master Trope Open Access Download PDF	109
Pussy Riot as the Trickstar Open Access Download PDF	130
The Formal Is Political Open Access Download PDF	145
FILM
Post-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s–Early 2000s Open Access Download PDF	169
War as the Family Value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein Valery Todorovsky Open Access Download PDF	195
A Road of Violence: My Joy Sergei Loznitsa Open Access Download PDF	219
In Denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away Aleksandr Veledinsky Open Access Download PDF	230
Lost in Translation: Short Stories by Mikhail Segal Open Access Download PDF	240
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	248
Index Open Access Download PDF	262

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 276
Keywords: Literary studies; Mark Lipovetsky; Russian literature; film; culture; cultural and aesthetic crises; postmodern condition; subversive texts; Nabokov; Lolita; performances; Pussy Riot; Vladimir Sorokin; sociocultural discourses; scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations; Socialist Realism; Strugatskys progressors

eBook

Published: January 31, 2017
ISBN: 9781618115591