Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel

by Craig Brandist

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This book examines the work of five Soviet prose writers - Olesha, Platonov, Kharms, Bulgakov and Vaginov - in the light of the carnivalesque elements of Russian popular culture. It shows that while Bakhtin's account of carnival culture sheds considerable light on the work of these writers, they need to be considered with reference to both the concrete forms of Russian and Soviet popular culture and the changing institutional framework of Soviet society...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349251224

ISBN13:9781349251223

Release Date:January 1996

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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