Flesh to metal
Subtitle: Soviet literature and the alchemy of revolution
By: Rolf Hellebust.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and technology -- Soviet Union.; Technology in literature.; Myth in literature.; Metals in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: A special material : the meaning of metal imagery; title: Forging the future : proletarian poetry and revolutionary transformation; title: Anvil to blast furnace : metal imagery in socialist realism; title: The Metaphor realized : fellow travelers and thereafter; title: The Beginning and end of history : metallization and myth.