Russian Literature since 1991

L. : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Under the general editorship: Е. А. Добренко, М. Н. Липовецкий

Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian literature and culture, it presents a broad panorama of genres in post-Soviet literature such as postmodernism, magical historicism, hyper-naturalism (in drama), and the new lyricism. At the same time, it offers close readings of the most prominent works published in Russia since the end of the Soviet regime and elimination of censorship. The collection highlights the interdisciplinary context of twenty-first-century Russian literature and can be widely used both for research and teaching by specialists in and beyond Russian studies, including those in post-Cold War and post-communist world history, literary theory, comparative literature and cultural studies.

Chapters

Narrative poetry

Kukulin I., , in: Russian Literature since 1991.: L.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. P. 244–267.

In the mid-2000s, the interest in narrative forms in poetry was increasing among the milieu of young Russian writers, especially those who considered themselves as the sucessors of so called uncensored poetry of the Soviet period. This flourishing of narrative poetry (as it turned out later, not very long: it lasted approximately till the early ...

Added: March 12, 2017

Keywords: postmodernism, Post-Soviet culture, literature and politics, 20th century Russian literature, contemporary Russian literature