{"id":38466,"date":"2023-12-07T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=38466"},"modified":"2023-12-07T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T18:45:20","slug":"world-literature-in-the-soviet-union-studies-in-comparative-literature-and-intellectual-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=38466","title":{"rendered":"World Literature in the Soviet Union: Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery and Rossen Djagalov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published by Academic Studies Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galin Tihanov, Rossen Djagalov, Anne Lounsbery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological Horizons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galin Tihanov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On the Worldliness of Russian Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne Lounsbery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping it in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist Contexts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susanne Frank&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Roles of &#8220;Form&#8221; and &#8220;Content&#8221; in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post-Revolutionary Years&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katerina Clark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\u201c<em>The Treasure Trove of World Literature<\/em>\u201d: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Khotimsky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sergey Tyulenev<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <em>&nbsp;International Literature<\/em>: A Multi-Language Soviet Journal as a Model of \u201cWorld Literature\u201d of the Mid-1930s USSR&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elena Ostrovskaya, Elena Zemskova,&nbsp;Evgeniia Belskaia, Georgii Korotkov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Translating China into <em>International Literature<\/em>: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the West<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward Tyerman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist Realism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schamma Schahadat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10.&nbsp; &nbsp;Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers\u2019 Association (1958\u20131991) and Its Literary Field&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rossen Djagalov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11.&nbsp; &nbsp; Can \u201cWorldliness\u201d Be Inscribed into the Literary Text?: Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Rubins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contributors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-academic-studies-press\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ai6bzaIWZw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academicstudiespress.com\/book-details\/\">Book Details<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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