Russian Classical Literature Today
：The Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture
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Publication subTitle ：The Challenges/Trials of Messianism and Mass Culture
Publication series ：None
Author： YordanLyutskanov HristoManolakev RadostinRusev
Publisher： Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781443861823
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781443859042
Subject： J9 Movies, TV
Keyword： Language and Literature
Language： ENG
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Description
This book explores a range of (mis)uses of the Russian classical literature canon and its symbolic capital by contemporary Russian literature, cinema, literary scholarship, and mass culture. It outlines processes of current canon-formation in a situation of the expiration of a literature-centric culture that has been imbued with specific messianism and its doubles.
The book implements Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the cultural field, focussing on a field’s constitutive pursuit of autonomy and on its flexible resistance to the double pressure of the political field and the economic field. It provides material for elaborating this theory through postulating the principal presence of a third factor of heteronomy: the ‘strong neighbour’ within the cultural field.
Furthermore, this volume demonstrates the heuristic of comparing the current Russian (mis)uses of classical literature to prior Russian and current foreign ones. As such, it also discusses such issues as the historical relativity of a literary field’s (notion of) autonomy and the geo-cultural variability of the Russian literary canon.
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