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On the threshold of Eurasia revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus

Title: On the threshold of Eurasia [electronic resource] : revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus / Leah Feldman.
Author: Feldman, Leah
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)

Summary

"Explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet 'East' as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity from 1905 to 1929"--

Uniform Title

On the threshold of Eurasia (Online)

Alternative Title

On the threshold of Eurasia (Online)

Subject

Caucasian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Azerbaijani literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Poetics > History > 20th century
Insurgency in literature
Azerbaijan > Intellectual life > 20th century
Caucasus > Relations > Russia
Russia > Relations > Caucasus
Caucasus > Relations > Soviet Union
Soviet Union > Relations > Caucasus

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: heterodoxy and heterology on the threshold of Eurasia -- Parodic and messianic genealogies : reading Gogol in Azeri in the late imperial Caucasus -- Aesthetics of empathy : the Azeri subject in translations of Pushkin -- A window onto the East : Baku's avant-garde poetics and the translatio imperii -- Broken verse : the materiality of the symbol in new Turkic poetics -- Postscript : Latinization and Refili's "Window" onto Soviet Azerbaijan.

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