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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Ilya KligerPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780226831879ISBN 10: 0226831876 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 05 April 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Translation Introduction 1. Russian Realism: Another Social Imaginary 2. State: Other Reality Effects 3. Family: Other Domestic Fictions 4. Nation: Other Imagined Communities 5. Précis: Poetics and Politics in Russian Realism Epilogue: Making the State Visible Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviews“Kliger’s groundbreaking study sets a new standard for theoretically and philosophically grounded investigations of Russian realism. Kliger traces the outlines of realist literature—or, to use a nineteenth-century term, poetry of reality—as a sphere of writing and imagination where down-to-earth depictions of everyday existence are permeated by political reflection on such categories as sovereignty and civil society. Kliger’s framework will be productive not only for future studies of Russian realism but also for an inquiry into the roots of Russia’s persistent culture of despotism and the emancipatory movements that have opposed it.” * Kirill Ospovat, University of Wisconsin–Madison * “In this both sweeping and subtle book Kliger returns to the terrain of nineteenth-century fiction to situate the Russian tradition alongside and against the European. Haunting the classical Russian novel, Kliger argues, was a distinct social imaginary closer in spirit to Greek tragedy than to modern fiction, one in which the force of sovereign power served to shatter or remake the individual or social body. Familiar to most of us as Europe’s brilliant if tardy cousin whose cultural development was forever stymied by the looming presence of autocracy, Russian literature is rediscovered here in its new function: to make the state, and the state of exception, visible, not only on the explicitly mimetic level, but allegorically, as the hidden motor of plots apparently remote from the realm of politics.” * Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley * Author InformationIlya Kliger is associate professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University, where he is also director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies. Kliger is the author of The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature and the coeditor of Persistent Forms: Practicing Historical Poetics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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