Aesthetics of alienation
Subtitle: reassessment of early Soviet cultural theories
By: Evgeny Dobrenko ; translated from the Russian by Jesse M. Savage.
Series: Studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Socialist realism in literature; Socialist realism -- Soviet Union; Aesthetics, Russian -- 20th century; Communism and culture -- Soviet Union
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: The academy of poetry and Russian society; title: Proletkult : "the music of revolution" or creation without creators; title: Rapp : the aesthetics of restraint or worldview as creation; title: Lef : the third factory as "new aesthetic enterprise"; title: Pereval : "organic creativity" or hands for the hourglass; title: The "social mandate" or flexion in an inflexible time; title: Socialist realism : the petrified utopia.