Charms of the cynical reason the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press,
2011.
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Series: | Cultural revolutions.
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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.