UID:
kobvindex_HPB1257479703
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 270 pages)
ISBN:
9781800641211
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1800641214
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9781800641228
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1800641222
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9781800641235
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1800641230
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9781800641242
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1800641249
Content:
"This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of 'anticipatory plagiarism'--developed in the 1960s by the 'Oulipo' group of French writers and thinkers--as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, its contributors ask us to consider how reading against linear chronologies can elicit fascinating new patterns and perspectives. Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature re-assesses three major nineteenth-century authors--Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy--either in terms of previous writers and artists who plagiarized them (such as Raphael, Homer, or Hall Caine), or of their own depredations against later writers (from J.M. Coetzee to Liudmila Petrushevskaia). Far from suggesting that past authors literally stole from their descendants, these engaging essays, contributed by both early-career and senior scholars of Russian and comparative literature, encourage us to identify the contingent and familiar within classic texts. By moving beyond rigid notions of cultural heritage and literary canons, they demonstrate that inspiration is cyclical, influence can flow in multiple directions, and no idea is ever truly original."--
Note:
Introduction : Countersense and Interpretation /
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Something for Nothing : Imagination and Collapse in O'Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol /
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Seeing Backwards : Raphael's Portrait of Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol /
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The Voice of Ivan : Ethical Plagiarism in Dostoevsky and Coetzee /
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Foretelling the Past : Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel' Yakhina into the Heart of Darkness /
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Notes from the Other Side of the Chronotope : Dostoevsky Anticipating Petrushevskaia /
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Master and Manxman : Reciprocal Plagiarism in Tolstoy and Hall Caine /
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The Posteriority of the Anterior : Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the Other /
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From Sky to Sea : When Andrei Bolkonsky Voiced Achilles /
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Afterword : But Seriously, Folks-- (Pierre Bayard and the Russians) /
Additional Edition:
Print version: 9781800641198
Additional Edition:
Print version: 9781800641204
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
Open Book Publishers
URL:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020447494
URL:
http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=6647696
