Livak, Leonid,

In search of Russian modernism /Leonid Livak. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - Hopkins studies in modernism .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Modernism as a culture -- Culture and cognition -- Culture, mythology, politics -- Culture, community, cartography -- Cultural spaces and their travelers -- The toponymical labyrinth of Russian modernist culture. Early Russian modernism and its "isms" ; The Russian domestication of the term Modernism ; New names, old problems ; Politics and cultural toponymy ; Naming the field -- The errant compass rose of Russian modernist studies. Realism as a cardinal direction ; Tradition and innovation as cardinal directions -- Russian modernism in time and space. The myth of 1917 ; Culture and border patrol ; Putting late Russian modernism on the map ; Chronologies of Russian modernism -- Navigating Russia's cultures of modernity. The intelligentsia and the two avant-gardes ; The two avant-gardes and mass culture -- Russian modernism in the cultural market. The economics of Russian cultural modernity ; The formalist writer-type and the evolving institution of authorship ; The political economy of Russian modernism -- Conclusion.



9781421426426


Modernism (Aesthetics)--Russia.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Soviet Union.
Modernism (Literature)--Russia.
Modernism (Literature)--Soviet Union.


Electronic Books.

BH301 / .I574 2018