Author: Clowes, Edith W.
Title: Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,236 pp. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Experimental Fiction Against Ideological Fixation: Meta-Utopian Writing: The Problem of Utopia as Ideology; Publishing the Dystopian Heritage: The Glasnost Debate About Literary Experiment & Utopian Ideology;The Meta-Utopian Experiment in Fiction: Elements of Literary & Ideological Reanimation: Charting Meta-Utopia: Chronotypes of Disorientation; Science, Ideology, & the Structure of Meta-Utopian Narrative; The Meta-Utopian Language Problem, or Utopia as a Bump on a - Log-; Meta-Utopian Consciousness; The Reader in the Text: Popularizing the Meta-Utopian Mentality: Making Meta-Utopia Accessible: Zinoviev's 'The Radiant Future'; Utopia, Imagination & Memory: The Strugatsky Brothers ' The Ugly Swans, Tendriakov's 'A Potshot at Mirages', & Aksënov's 'The Island of Crimea'; Parody of Popular Forms in iskander's 'Rabbits & Boa Constrictors' & Voinovich's 'Moscow 2042'; Play with Closure in Petrushevskaia's 'The New Robinsons' & Kabakov's 'The Deserter'; The Utopian Impulse after 1968: Russian Meta-Utopian Fiction in a European Context.

Keywords: Russian Literature, Experimental, Literary Criticism, Meta-Utopian, Utopian Fiction, Utopias Experiments, Soviet Ideology, Petrushevskaia, Aleksandr Zinoviev