Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel
Download or Read eBook Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel PDF written by Craig Brandist and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-01-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Craig Brandist |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 1997-01-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781349251209 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1349251208 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel by : Craig Brandist
Book excerpt: This book examines the work of five Soviet prose writers - Olesha, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and Vaginov - in the light of the carnivalesque elements of Russian popular culture. It shows that while Bakhtin's account of carnival culture sheds considerable light on the work of these writers, they need to be considered with reference to both the concrete forms of Russian and Soviet popular culture and the changing institutional framework of Soviet society in the 1920s and 1930s.
