Reading Backwards : An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature.
This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of 'anticipatory plagiarism'--developed in the 1960s by the 'Oulipo' group of French writers and thinkers--as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, it...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributor Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Countersense and Interpretation
- I. Gogol
- 1. Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O'Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol
- 2. Seeing Backwards: Raphael's Portrait of Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol
- II. Dostoevsky
- 3. The Voice of Ivan: Ethical Plagiarism in Dostoevsky and Coetzee
- 4. Foretelling the Past: Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel' Yakhina into the Heart of Darkness
- 5. Notes from the Other Side of the Chronotope: Dostoevsky Anticipating Petrushevskaia
- III. Tolstoy
- 6. Master and Manxman: Reciprocal Plagiarism in Tolstoy and Hall Caine
- 7. The Posteriority of the Anterior: Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the Other
- 8. From Sky to Sea: When Andrei Bolkonskii Voiced Achilles
- Afterword: But Seriously, Folks…. (Pierre Bayard and the Russians)
- List of Figures
- Index.