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The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each authorâ€TMs oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of languageâ€TMs power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory. The Articles In The Critical Companion Offer Analyses Of Russian Short Stories That Encompass The Major Aesthetic And Thematic Concern Of The Short Story Genre In The Twentieth Century. Each Article Focuses On A Single Story By Authors Ranging From Chekhov And Bunin To Nabokov And Shalamov, To Tolstaya And Pelevin; Together They Outline The Developments In Each Author's Oeuvre And In The Subjects, Structure, And Themes Of The Twentieth-century Russian Short Story. The Short Story Rises To Prominence During Periods Of Cultural And Political Transition When Literary Conventions And Ideologies Lose Some Or Most Of Their Authority. The Russian Twentieth-century Short Story In Particular Flourished In A Century That Saw An Abundance Of Such Shifts: Cultural, Ideological, And Political. In This Collection, American, European And Russian Scholars Discuss Some Of The Best Twentieth Century Russian Short Stories And Their Recurrent Themes Of Language's Power And Limits, Of Childhood And Old Age, Of Art And Sexuality, And Of Cultural, Individual And Artistic Memory. The Introduction Provides A Discussion Of The Short Story Genre And Its Socio-cultural Function. The Book Will Be Of Value To All Scholars Of Russian Literature, The Short Story, And Genre Theory.--book Jacket. Introduction: The Short Story As The Genre Of Cultural Transition / Lyudmila Parts -- Chekhov's The Darling: Femininity Scorned And Desired / Svetlana Evdokimova -- Bunin's Gentle Breath / Lev Vygotsky -- Ekphrasis In Isaak Babel (pan Apolek, My First Goose) -- Robert Maguire -- Zoshchenko's Electrician, Or The Complex Theatrical Mechanism / Aleksander Zholkovsky -- Yury Olesha's Three Ages Of Man: A Close Reading Of Liompa / Andrew Barratt -- Nabokov's Art Of Memory: Recollected Emotion In Spring In Fialta (1936-1947) / John Burt Foster, Jr -- Child Perspective: Tradition And Experiment. An Analysis Of The Childhood Of Luvers By Boris Pasternak / Fiona Björling -- Andrei Platonov And The Inadmissibility Of Desire (the River Potudan) / Eric Naiman -- This Could Have Been Foreseen: Kharms's The Old Woman (starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis / Robin Milner-gulland -- Testimony As Art: Varlam Shalamov's Condensed Milk / Leona Toker -- The Writer As Criminal: Abram Tertz's Pkhents / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Vasilii Shukshin's Cut Down To Size (srezal) And The Question Of Transition / Diane Ignashev Nemec -- Carnivalization Of The Short Story Genre And The Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's The Poet And The Muse / Erica Greber -- Down The Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Lyudmila Parts -- The Lady With The Dogs, By Lyudmila Petrushevskaia / Translated By Krystyna Anna Steiger -- Russian Postmodernist Fiction And Mythologies Of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's The Central-ermolaevo War And Viktor Erofeev's Parakeet / Mark Lipovetsky -- Psychosis And Photography: Andrei Bitov's Pushkin's Photograph / Sven Spieker -- The Traditional Postmodernism Of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story Nika / Olga Bogdanova. Edited And With An Introduction By Lyudmila Parts. Includes Bibliographical References. Table of Contents Contributors ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction: The Short Story as the Genre of Cultural Transition Chekhov’s “The Darling”: Femininity Scorned and Desired. SVETLANA EVDOKIMOVA Bunin’s “Gentle Breath” lEV SEmenovich vygotsky Ekphrasis in Isaak Babel Zoshchenko’s “Electrician,” or the Complex Theatrical Mechanism. Yury Olesha’s Three Ages of Man: a Close Reading of "Liompa." Nabokov’s Art of Memory: Recollected Emotion in “Spring in Fialta" Child Perspective: Tradition and Experiment. An Analysis of “The Childhood of Luvers” by Boris Pasternak. Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire “This Could Have Been Foreseen”: Kharms’s The Old Woman (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis “This Could Have Been Foreseen”: Kharms’s The Old Woman (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov’s “Condensed Milk.” The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz’s “Pkhents.” Vasilii Shukshin’s “Cut Down to Size” (Srezal) and the Question of Transition. Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia’s “The Poet and the Muse.” Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy. The Lady with the Dogs Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh’s “The Central-Ermolaevo War” and Viktor Erofeev’s “Parakeet.” Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov’s “Pushkin’s Photograph.” The “Traditional Postmodernism” of Viktor Pelevin’s Short Story "Nika" WORKS CITED Пустая страница

The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author's oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the Short Story, and Genre Theory.

'The Russian Twentieth Century Short A Critical Companion' is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each authors oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of languages power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory. Provides a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author’s oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story.