Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on

The last ten years were decisive for Russia, not only in the political sphere, but also culturally as this period saw the rise and crystallization of Russian postmodernism. The essays, manifestos, and articles gathered here investigate various manifestations of this crucial cultural trend. Exploring Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, they provide a point of departure and a valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies which is currently insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. A brief but useful "Who's Who in Russian Postmodernism" as an appendix introduces many authors who have never before appeared in a reference work of this kind and renders this book essential reading for those interested in the latest trends in Russian intellectual life.

Introduction	p. vii
The Making of Russian Postmodernism	p. 1
The Dialectics of Hyper From Modernism to Postmodernism	p. 3
The 1960S And The Rediscovery of The Other In Russian Culture Andrei Bitov	p. 31
Perestroika As A Shift In Literary Paradigm	p. 87
Manifestos of Russian Postmodernism	p. 103
Theses On Metarealism and Conceptualism	p. 105
On Olga Sedakova and Lev Rubinshtein	p. 113
What is Metarealism?: Facts and Hypotheses	p. 118
What Is A Metabole? (On the Third Trope)	p. 125
Like A Corpse In The Desert Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry	p. 134
A Catalogue of New Poetries	p. 145
Essayism An Essay on the Essay	p. 152
The Ecology of Thinking	p. 158
Minimal Religion	p. 163
The Age of Universalism	p. 172
The Paradox of Acceleration	p. 177
Socialist Realism and Postmodernism	p. 183
Archaic Postmodernism The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky	p. 185
Postmodernism and Sots-Realism From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir Sorokin	p. 197
Borders and Metamorphoses Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature	p. 212
Conceptualism	p. 225
The New Model of Discourse In Post-Soviet Russian Fiction Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia	p. 227
Heterogeneity and The Russian Post-Avant-Garde The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin	p. 269
Emptiness As A Technique Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov	p. 299
Postmodernism and Spirituality	p. 343
Post-Atheism From Apophatic Theology to "Minimal Religion"	p. 345
Onions And Cabbages Paradigms of Contemporary Culture	p. 394
Charms Of Entropy and New Sentimentality The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev	p. 423
Conclusion: On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity Mikhail Epstein	p. 456
Appedix: Who's Who in Russian Postmodernism	p. 469
Notes On Contributors	p. 509
Select Bibliography	p. 511
Index	p. 514
Index Of Subjects	p. 521
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