Russia's lost literature of the absurd

“The Russian literary heritage of the 1920’s and 1930’s continues to grow as significant works are uncovered that were long forgotten or never published. The most recent find is not a single work or author, but an entire literary movement―the Oberiu. . . . Professor Gibian’s book is most welcome . . .” ―Slavic Review These bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Sovie…

The dismemberment of orpheus

In this book, the first edition of which was published in 1971 by Oxford University Press, Ihab Hassan takes Orphic dismemberment and regeneration as his metaphor for a radical crisis in art and language, culture and consciousness, which prefigures postmodern literature. The modern Orpheus, he writes, “sings on a lyre without strings.” Thus, his sensitive critique traces a hypothetical line…

The Post Colonial Studies Reader

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ISBN/ISSN

0-415-09621-9

Collation

xvii + 526 hlm; 25.5 cm

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306.4 ASH p