New directions in Soviet literature : selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

He specializes in contemporary Russian literature and has published articles on Aksenov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Trifonov and other twentiethcentury Russian writers. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi The Crisis of Soviet Artistic Mentality in the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 1-17 The Left Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1920s....Pages 18-35 Tolstaian Times: Traversals and Transfers....Pages 36-62 Myth in the Works of Chingiz Aitmatov....Pages 63-74 The Naturalistic Tendency in Contemporary Soviet Fiction: Thematics, Poetics, Functions....Pages 75-88 Reassessing the Past: Images of Stalin and Stalinism in Contemporary Russian Literature....Pages 89-105 Village Prose: Chauvinism, Nationalism or Nostalgia?....Pages 106-121 Brodsky’s Poetic Self-portrait....Pages 122-137 A Matter of (Dis)course: Metafiction in the Works of Daniil Kharms....Pages 138-163 Pilate and Pilatism in Recent Russian Literature....Pages 164-181 Back Matter....Pages 183-187 This book offers a selection of papers on Russian literature of the Soviet period presented at the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies in 1990. They range from studies of the experimental prose and drama of the 1920s and early 1930s to examinations of the 'cruel realism' of some young writers of the Gorbachev era, and of the way that Stalin and Stalinism are now being presented in Russian literature in the age of glasnost, with art spurring historians on to seek answers to painful questions about Russia's recent past This is a selection of papers on Russian literature of the Soviet period presented at the IVth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies in 1990. The ten articles range from the experimental prose and drama of the 1920s to studies of work by younger writers of the 1980s. The articles include analyses of works by individual writers and examinations of general phenomena, for example, village prose or the way Stalin is presented in literature of the glasnost era.