From orientalism to cultural capital : the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1920s / Olga Soboleva and Augus Wrenn.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781787073944
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- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Russia -- In literature -- 20th century
- Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Literature and literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: from c 1900
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- Literature
- Russia
- PR129.R8 .S63 2017eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index.
From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and the notion of "cultural capital" associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Examining the responses of leading literary practitioners who had a significant impact on the institutional transmission of Russian culture, they reassess the mechanics of cultural dialogism, mediation and exchange, casting new light on British perceptions of modernism as a transcultural artistic movement and the ways in which the literary interaction with the myth of Russia shaped and intensified these cultural views.
The east wind of Russianness -- John Galsworthy: is it possible to 'de-Anglicise the Englishman'? -- H.G. Wells: interpreting the 'writing on the eastern wall of Europe' -- J.M. Barrie and The truth about the Russian dancers -- D.H. Lawrence: 'Russia will certainly inherit the future' -- 'Lappin and Lapinova': Woolf's beleaguered Russian monarchs -- 'Not a story of detection, of crime and punishment, but of sin and expiation': T.S. Eliot's debt to Russia, Dostoevsky and Turgenev.
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