Chapaev and his Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century

Author:   Angela Brintlinger
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
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Pages:   285
Publication Date:   20 December 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Throughout the twentieth century war was at the forefront of the consciousness of the Russian people, and became a dominant trope to represent the Soviet experience in literature and other areas of cultural life. This book traces those war experiences, memories, tropes, and metaphors in the literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, examining the work of Dmitry Furmanov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Vera Panova, Viktor Nekrasov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Voinovich among others.

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Author:   Angela Brintlinger
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.152kg
ISBN:  

9781618112026


ISBN 10:   1618112023
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   20 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Brintlinger has made a valuable contribution to the study of twentieth-century Russian literature by bringing the war hero out of the Socialist Realist ghetto, showing the nuances which reveal the complexities of supposedly 'official' texts, as well as the multiple allusions which connect them with 'unofficial' texts which may parody or ridicule them, but by doing so acknowledge their claim on the cultural imagination. --Katharine Hodgson (Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter) Slavonic & East European Review Vol. 92, No. 2, April 2014


Brintlinger presents a critical defamiliarization to stimulate another generation of readers and scholars to reexamine the tragic history of twentieth-century Russia and read its Salient writers from a new perspective. . . . Brintlinger's introduction not only introduces the diverse set of writers, issues, and thematic priorities of her main text. It also establishes her own voice as thoughtful, resourceful, scholarly, and well informed about the vast legacy of Russian war literature. . . . Bringing to the task a broad scholarly, philosophical vision and sharp, discrete critical tools, Brintlinger has produced a formidable work. It should serve as an indispensible guide to the literature of the Russian 'short twentieth century' (1917--1991). --Byron Lindsey (University of New Mexico) Slavic and East European Journal, 58.1 (Spring 2014) Chapaev and His Comrades represents an important contribution to an already robust body of scholarly works on the theme of the hero in Russian literature, its specific merit being that it provides us with a comprehensive and nuanced reading of how Soviet and post-Soviet identity shaped itself around a century of almost constant war. . . . Brintlinger's monograph is an engaging one, and it adds significantly to our understanding of how Russian identity was constructed by the major conflicts of the twentieth century. Chapaev and His Comrades will be of interest to Slavists but also to those interested in peace and conflict studies. --Keith Livers Slavic Review, vol. 73, no. 4 (Winter 2014) Brintlinger has made a valuable contribution to the study of twentieth-century Russian literature by bringing the war hero out of the Socialist Realist ghetto, showing the nuances which reveal the complexities of supposedly 'official' texts, as well as the multiple allusions which connect them with 'unofficial' texts which may parody or ridicule them, but by doing so acknowledge their claim on the cultural imagination. --Katharine Hodgson (Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter) Slavonic & East European Review Vol. 92, No. 2, April 2014 Clearly written, Chapaev and his Comrades is invaluable to scholars of war culture and scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet literature. . . . this volume contributes greatly to the body of scholarship addressing the field of Soviet war literature, an understudied field in the West. --Adrienne M. Harris, Baylor University The Russian Review, October 2013 (Vol. 72, No. 4)


Brintlinger presents a critical defamiliarization to stimulate another generation of readers and scholars to reexamine the tragic history of twentieth-century Russia and read its Salient writers from a new perspective. . . . Brintlinger's introduction not only introduces the diverse set of writers, issues, and thematic priorities of her main text. It also establishes her own voice as thoughtful, resourceful, scholarly, and well informed about the vast legacy of Russian war literature. . . . Bringing to the task a broad scholarly, philosophical vision and sharp, discrete critical tools, Brintlinger has produced a formidable work. It should serve as an indispensible guide to the literature of the Russian 'short twentieth century' (1917--1991). --Byron Lindsey (University of New Mexico) Slavic and East European Journal, 58.1 (Spring 2014) Chapaev and His Comrades represents an important contribution to an already robust body of scholarly works on the theme of the hero in Russian literature, its specific merit being that it provides us with a comprehensive and nuanced reading of how Soviet and post-Soviet identity shaped itself around a century of almost constant war. . . . Brintlinger's monograph is an engaging one, and it adds significantly to our understanding of how Russian identity was constructed by the major conflicts of the twentieth century. Chapaev and His Comrades will be of interest to Slavists but also to those interested in peace and conflict studies. --Keith Livers Slavic Review, vol. 73, no. 4 (Winter 2014) Clearly written, Chapaev and his Comrades is invaluable to scholars of war culture and scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet literature. . . . this volume contributes greatly to the body of scholarship addressing the field of Soviet war literature, an understudied field in the West. --Adrienne M. Harris, Baylor University The Russian Review, October 2013 (Vol. 72, No. 4) Brintlinger has made a valuable contribution to the study of twentieth-century Russian literature by bringing the war hero out of the Socialist Realist ghetto, showing the nuances which reveal the complexities of supposedly 'official' texts, as well as the multiple allusions which connect them with 'unofficial' texts which may parody or ridicule them, but by doing so acknowledge their claim on the cultural imagination. --Katharine Hodgson (Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter) Slavonic & East European Review Vol. 92, No. 2, April 2014


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Angela Brintlinger (PhD University of Wisconsin) is an associate professor and the graduate studies chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages andLiteratures at Ohio State University. She is the author of Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture 1917-1937 (2000) and co-edited with Ilya Vinitsky the book Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture (2007).

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