The Chekhovian Intertext
Dialogue With a Classic
Parts, Lyudmila
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In The Chekhovian Intertext Lyudmila Parts explores contemporary Russian writers’ intertextual engagement with Chekhov and his myth. She offers a new interpretative framework to explain the role Chekhov and other classics play in constructing and maintaining Russian national identity and the reasons for the surge in the number of intertextual engagements with the classical authors during the cultural crisis in post-perestroika Russia.
The book highlights the intersection of three distinct concepts: cultural memory, cultural myth, and intertextuality. It is precisely their interrelation that explains how intertextuality came to function as a defense mechanism of culture, a reaction of cultural memory to the threat of its disintegration.
In addition to offering close readings of some of the most significant short stories by contemporary Russian authors and by Chekhov, as a theoretical case study the book sheds light on important processes in contemporary literature: it explores the function of intertextuality in the development of Russian literature, especially post-Soviet literature; it singles out the main themes in contemporary literature, and explains their ties to national cultural myths and to cultural memory. The Chekhovian Intertext may serve as a theoretical model and impetus for examinations of other national literatures from the point of view of the relationship between intertextuality and cultural memory.
AUTHOR BIO
Lyudmila Parts is assistant professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Lyudmila Parts employs an innovative approach in her discussion of social and literary change. Focusing on texts that until now have not been sufficiently discussed in the field, her book has serious merit.” —Nadya Peterson, associate professor of Russian language and literature, Hunter College, CUNY
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 081421083X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780814210833
Dewey Decimal: 891.72/3
Library of Congress: 2007045611
Book Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 223
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