Author: Robert AlterPublisher: Cambridge, Harvard U.P
ISBN:
Category : Lazarillo de Tormes
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Rogue's Progress
Author: Robert AlterPublisher: Cambridge, Harvard U.P
ISBN:
Category : Lazarillo de Tormes
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The rogue's progress
Author: Jean BarreCollier's New Encyclopedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Best British Short Stories of ...
Author: Rogue's progress
Author: Richard O'ConnorThe Best British Short Stories
Author: The Best British Short Stories of 1926
Author: Edward Joseph O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Rogue's Progress
Author: Lee Lindsay (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Best British Short Stories and the Yearbook of the British, Irish, and Colonial Short Story
Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Writing Rogues
Author: Cassio de OliveiraPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228015073
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Plot elements such as adventure, travel to far-flung regions, the criminal underworld, and embezzlement schemes are not usually associated with Soviet literature, yet an entire body of work produced between the October Revolution and the Stalinist Great Terror was constructed around them. In Writing RoguesCassio de Oliveira sheds light on the picaresque and its marginal characters – rogues and storytellers – who populated the Soviet Union on paper and in real life. The picaresque afforded authors the means to articulate and reflect on the Soviet collective identity, a class-based utopia that rejected imperial power and attempted to deemphasize national allegiances. Combining new readings of canonical works with in-depth analysis of neglected texts, Writing Rogues explores the proliferation of characters left on the sidelines of the communist transition, including gangsters, con men, and petty thieves, many of them portrayed as ethnic minorities. The book engages with scholarship on Soviet subjectivity as well as classical picaresque literature in order to explain how the subversive rogue – such as Ilf and Petrov’s wildly popular cynic and schemer Ostap Bender – in the process of becoming a fully fledged Soviet citizen, came to expose and embody the contradictions of Soviet life itself. Writing Rogues enriches our understanding of how literature was called upon to participate in the construction of Soviet identity. It demonstrates that the Soviet picaresque resonated with individual citizens’ fears and aspirations as it recorded the country’s transformation into the first communist state.