Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture, 1917-1937
Angela Brintlinger
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In ""Writing a Usable Past"", Brintlinger considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and emigre culture with the genre of biography. She argues that in the years after the Revolution, Russian writers looked to the great literary figures of the past to help them construct a post-Revolutionary present. Brintlinger looks at the biographical writing of Yuri Tynianov, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Mikhail Bulgakov, comparing their successful biography/ies to their failed attempts at biographies of Alexander Pushkin on the centennial anniversary of his death. Brintlinger argues that popular commemorations - exhibits, concerts, special issues of journals - were a more fitting biography than the genre of the 'usable past.'Product Details
Price
£40.19
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Publish Date
30 December 2008
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780810125230
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