Chapaev and His Comrades War and the Russian Literary Hero Across the Twentieth Century |
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| Author:
| Brintlinger, Angela |
| Series title: | Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61811-202-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2012 |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $129.00 |
Book Description:
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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, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Voinovich among others.
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, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Voinovich among others.