Abstract

Preface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationList of AbbreviationsPt. 1Experimental Fiction Against Ideological FixationCh. 1Meta-utopian Writing: Problem of Utopia as Ideology3Ch. 2Publishing the Dystopian Heritage: Glasnost Debate about Literary Experiment and Utopian Ideology25Pt. 2The Meta-Utopian Experiment in Fiction: Elements of Literary and Ideological ReanimationCh. 3Charting Meta-utopia: Chronotopes of Disorientation41Ch. 4Science, Ideology, and the Structure of Meta-utopian Narrative70Ch. 5The Meta-utopian Language Problem, or Utopia as a Bump on a -log-94Ch. 6Meta-utopian Consciousness122Pt. 3The Reader in the Text: Popularizing the Meta-Utopian MentalityCh. 7Making Meta-utopia Accessible: Zinoviev's Radiant Future145Ch. 8Utopia, Imagination, and Memory: Strugatsky Brothers' Ugly Swans, Tendriakov's A Potshot at Mirages, and Aksenov's Island of Crimea162Ch. 9Parody of Popular Forms in Iskander's Rabbits and Boa Constrictors and Voinovich's Moscow 2042183Ch. 10Play with Closure in Petrushevskaia's The New Robinsons and Kabakov's The Deserter198Conclusion: Utopian Impulse after 1968: Russian Meta-utopian Fiction in a European Context208Bibliography223Index233

Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call