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The vortex that unites us : versions of totality in Russian literature / Jacob Emery

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Emery, Jacob, 1977-
Published
Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
viii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Introduction: the totalities of Russian literature -- Versions of possession: ghost, demon, idea, discourse -- The epidemic: the infectious imagination of Leo Tolstoy -- The panorama: world Literature and universal language -- The orchestra: dictation and dictatorship -- The market: Humbert Humbert as mad man.
Summary
"This book is about the persistent ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into the totality of an artwork. The teeming and paradoxical diversity of totalizing figures in the Russian canon, often in alliance with ideologies like the totalitarian state or enlightenment reason, strive for the frontiers of space and time in order to guarantee the coherence of the globe and the continuity of history"--
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ISBN
9781501769382 hardcover
1501769383 hardcover
9781501769399 electronic book
9781501769405 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
George K. and Anna I. Yonchuk and John G., Sr. and Agnes A. Yonchuk Libraries Endowment in Russian Studies
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