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Indeed, while the aesthetic visions analyzed in the book aim for closure, Emery dwells in their details and ambiguities, offering terrific insights into numerous texts. * The Russian Review *

Indeed, while the aesthetic visions analyzed in the book aim for closure, Emery dwells in their details and ambiguities, offering terrific insights into numerous texts. * The Russian Review * thought-provoking.erudite.Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * TLS * Thought-provoking and erudite, Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * Times Literary Supplement *

"Indeed, while the aesthetic visions analyzed in the book aim for closure, Emery dwells in their details and ambiguities, offering terrific insights into numerous texts. * The Russian Review * Thought-provoking and erudite, Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * Times Literary Supplement * thought-provoking.erudite.Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * TLS * Emery looks at five fabulously diverse ""versions"" of the unifying impulse directed at living bodies: possession, epidemic, panorama, orchestra, and market. Each has its own appetite, exemplary authors, and treasure box of metaphors. Equal time is allotted to prose and poetry. * Los Angeles Review of Books *"

Indeed, while the aesthetic visions analyzed in the book aim for closure, Emery dwells in their details and ambiguities, offering terrific insights into numerous texts. * The Russian Review * Thought-provoking and erudite, Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * Times Literary Supplement * thought-provoking.erudite.Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * TLS * Emery looks at five fabulously diverse ""versions"" of the unifying impulse directed at living bodies: possession, epidemic, panorama, orchestra, and market. Each has its own appetite, exemplary authors, and treasure box of metaphors. Equal time is allotted to prose and poetry. * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Jacob Emery is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is the author of Alternative Kinships and, together with his sister, the novel A Clockwork River.

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