Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union

Nicolosi, Riccardo und Obermayr, Brigitte (Hrsg.) (2024): Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union. Boston: Academic Studies Press.

Abstract

In the early 1920s, Soviet writers and literary theorists were convinced that adventure fiction held the key to developing a new kind of narrative. The call for a "Russian Stevenson" (Lev Lunts) profoundly impacted the theory of prose and different notions of the literary hero. It also led theorists like Shklovsky to write dime novels and convinced writers of various backgrounds to explore Soviet topography in a new light, harnessing the synergies between imperialism and adventure. Despite the inherently anarchist nature of adventure and its bourgeois offspring, the magic of adventure found its way into socialist realism under different guises, demanding recognition and resisting neglect, especially in the case of socialist realist film.

This book offers a critical historical reconstruction of the early Soviet adventure craze and its lasting popularity in socialist realism. It also offers innovative theoretical propositions for a philological analysis of adventure fiction that arise from this unique historical context.

• Dokumententyp: Herausgeberschaft
• Keywords: Russophone avantgarde literature; Russophone avantgarde prose; Adventure literature; Mikhail Bakhtin; Russian Formalism; Early Soviet Prose; Early Soviet Cinema; Early Socialist Realism; Soviet writers; Soviet literary theorists; adventure fiction; Russian Stevenson; Lev Lunts; theory of prose; literary hero; Viktor Shklovsky; dime-novels; Soviet topography; imperialism; socialist realism; socialist realist film; philological analysis; historical reconstruction
• Fakultät: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Department 2 > Slavische Philologie
• Themengebiete: 800 Literatur > 890 Andere Literaturen
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-631-2 ; 979-8-88719-632-9 ; 979-8-88719-633-6
• Ort: Boston
• Sprache: Englisch