Name: Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991
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Author: Kahn, Andrew ; Hodgson, Katharine ; Smith, Alexandra
ISBN: 9781787079021

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Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alexandra Smith

Katharine Hodgson

Other

Andrew Kahn

Publisher

Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis

Language

English

Pages

520

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.70 kg.

ISBN13

9781787079021

Synopsis "Poetic Canons, Cultural Memory and Russian National Identity after 1991"

The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it should be remembered. The publication of previously barely known underground and émigré literary works presented an opportunity to reappraise official Soviet literature and re-evaluate twentieth-century Russian literature as a whole. This book explores changes to the poetry canon - an instrument for maintaining individual and collective memory - to show how cultural memory has informed the evolution of post-Soviet Russian identity. It examines how concerns over identity are shaping the canon, and in which directions, and analyses the interrelationship between national identity (whether ethnic, imperial, or civic) and attempts to revise the canon. This study situates the discussion of national identity within the cultural field and in the context of canon formation as a complex expression of aesthetic, political, and institutional factors. It encompasses a period of far-reaching upheaval in Russia and reveals the tension between a desire for change and a longing for stability that was expressed by attempts to reshape the literary canon and, by doing so, to create a new twentieth-century past and the foundations of a new identity for the nation.

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