The Soviet novel : history as ritual
Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th.
Print Book, English, ©2000
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 320 pages ; 22 cm
9780253337030, 9780253213679, 0253337038, 0253213673
43884905
Introduction: the Distinctive role of Socialist Realism in Soviet CultureI. Socialist Realism before 19321. What Socialist Realism Isand What Led to Its Adoption as the Official Method of Soviet Literature2. The Positive Hero in Prevolutionary Fiction3. Socialist Realist Classics of the TwentiesII. High Stalinist Culture4. The Machine and the Garden: Literature and the Metaphors for the New Society5. The Stalinist Myth of the "Great Family"6. The Sense of Reality in the Heroic AgeIII. An Analysis of the Conventional Soviet Novel7. The Prototypical Plot8. Three Auxiliary Patterns of Ritual SacrificeIV. Soviet Fiction since World War II9. The Postwar Stalin Period (1944-53)10. The Khrushchev Years11. Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?ConclusionAppendix A: The Master Plot as Exemplified in the Production Novel and Other Basic Types of Novel of the Stalin PeriodAppendix B: The Official Short List of Model Novels as Inferred from Speeches to Writers' Union CongressesAfterwordNotesSelect BibliographyIndex