The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, MetafictionThis is the first comprehensive study of the group of avant-garde Soviet writers who styled themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'. Graham Roberts re-examines commonly-held assumptions about OBERIU, its identity as a group, its aesthetics, its relationship to the formalists and the Bakhtin circle, and its place within Russian and European literary traditions. Roberts concludes by showing how the self-conscious literature of OBERIU SH its metafiction SH occupies an important transitional space between modernism and postmodernism. |
Contents
Authors and authority | 22 |
Rereading reading 165 | 75 |
Language and representation | 120 |
OBERIU between modernism | 171 |
Notes | 179 |
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The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction, Metafiction Graham Roberts No preview available - 2006 |
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