Charms of the cynical reason the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture /

Charms of the cynical reason the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture /

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Main Author: Lipovet͡skiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Series:Cultural revolutions.
Subjects:
Russian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Tricksters in literature.
Tricksters in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Soviet Union > History.
Motion pictures > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > Soviet Union > History.
Literature and society > Russia (Federation) > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. At The Heart Of Soviet Civilization: The meaning of the trickster trope; The trickster's politics; The trickster trope and the Soviet subjectivity; Cynical or kynical?
  • 2. Khulio Khurenito: the Trickster's Revolution: Modernizing the trickster; The method: overidentification; Why did Khurenito decide to die?
  • 3. Ostap Bender: the King Is Born: Ostap as trickster; Social schizophrenia; A kynical king of the cynics
  • 4. Buratino: the Utopia of a Free Marionette: Buratino as a mediator; Buratino as an artist; Buratino as a cynic
  • 5. Venichka: a Tragic Trickster: The trickster as the underground author; Rituals of expenditure; "I Will Not Explain to You Who Were These Four ..."
  • 6. Tricksters In Disguise: The Trickster's Transformations In The Soviet Film Of The 1960s-70s: "Reformed" tricksters in the comedies of the 70s-80s: Gaidai's Tricksters; Riazanov's Detochkin; Daneliia's Buzykin; The art of alibi: Stierlitz as the Soviet intelligent : Who are you working for?; The Imperial Mediator; Stierlitz's Afterlife
  • 7. Splitting The Trickster: Pelevin's Shape-Shifters: The society of shape-shifters; Genealogy of the heroine; A fairytale about shape-shifters; The trickster's magic/politics: a bifurcation point; Cynic versus kynic.

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