TY  - BOOK
AU  - Langen,Timothy
AU  - Maguire,Muireann
TI  - Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature
SN  - 9781800641211
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Open Book Publishers
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Countersense and Interpretation -- I. Gogol -- 1. Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O'Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol -- 2. Seeing Backwards: Raphael's Portrait of Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol -- II. Dostoevsky -- 3. The Voice of Ivan: Ethical Plagiarism in Dostoevsky and Coetzee -- 4. Foretelling the Past: Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel' Yakhina into the Heart of Darkness -- 5. Notes from the Other Side of the Chronotope: Dostoevsky Anticipating Petrushevskaia -- III. Tolstoy -- 6. Master and Manxman: Reciprocal Plagiarism in Tolstoy and Hall Caine -- 7. The Posteriority of the Anterior: Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the Other -- 8. From Sky to Sea: When Andrei Bolkonskii Voiced Achilles -- Afterword: But Seriously, Folks…. (Pierre Bayard and the Russians) -- List of Figures -- Index
N2  - This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of 'anticipatory plagiarism'--developed in the 1960s by the 'Oulipo' group of French writers and thinkers--as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established critical approaches to the canon and literary influence, its contributors ask us to consider how reading against linear chronologies can elicit fascinating new patterns and perspectives
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