Description
Does metafiction - the literary technique that forces readers to acknowledge that they are reading a work of fiction - have a hidden past? Margarita Vaysman's insightful study challenges the view of metafiction as a postmodern phenomenon and reveals that it thrived in mid-nineteenth century in Russia. Practised by writers of disparate ideological persuasions, metafiction was the creative answer to the period's twin preoccupations with politics and aesthetics. Moreover, it wove these contemporary debates into the very fabric of Russian literature's most recognised genre - the classic realist novel.
In Self-Conscious Realism, Vaysman examines metafiction's complex correlation with the Russian realist tradition in three novels from the 1860s: What Is to Be Done? (1863) by Nikolai Chernyshevskii, Troubled Seas (1863) by Aleksei Pisemskii, and A Woman's Lot (1862) by Avdot'ia Panaeva. These case studies are richly contextualised by the writers' diaries, letters, memoirs, and legal and financial documents.
Author: Margarita Vaysman
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 07/19/2021
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781781883839
ISBN10: 1781883831
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Soviet
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
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