Stalin’s Ghosts

Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature

von Muireann Maguire

331 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.

• Reihe: Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9783034307871
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2012
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers