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Author:

Feldman, Leah, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018007081

Title:

On the threshold of Eurasia : revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus / Leah Feldman.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Caucasian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Azerbaijani literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Poetics--History--20th century.
Insurgency in literature.
Azerbaijan--Intellectual life--20th century.
Caucasus--Relations--Russia.
Russia--Relations--Caucasus.
Caucasus--Relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Relations--Caucasus.
Azerbaijani literature.
Caucasian literature.
Insurgency in literature.
Intellectual life.
International relations.
Poetics.
Russian literature.
Azerbaijan.
Caucasus.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: heterodoxy and heterology on the threshold of Eurasia -- Parodic and messianic genealogies : reading Gogol in Azeri in the late imperial Caucasus -- Aesthetics of empathy : the Azeri subject in translations of Pushkin -- A window onto the East : Baku's avant-garde poetics and the translatio imperii -- Broken verse : the materiality of the symbol in new Turkic poetics -- Postscript : Latinization and Refili's "Window" onto Soviet Azerbaijan.

Summary:

"Explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet 'East' as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity from 1905 to 1929"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501726501
9781501726507

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1022980815

LCCN:

2018002248

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)