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Titel :  Reclaiming the Reader: New Sentimentalist Writing in Post-Soviet Russia
Hoofdaanvrager : Dr. E. Rutten
Verbonden aan : geen informatie beschikbaar
Uitvoerder(s) : Dr. E. Rutten
Plaats van uitvoering : University of Cambridge
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Department of Slavonic Studies
Looptijd : 03/15/2007 tot 04/21/2009
Strategisch doel : Talent
Budget : Eur 87,480.00 voor materiële kosten
Subsidie-instrument :  Rubicon
 
Samenvatting
Starting from the late 1980s, European and American literature, art and philosophy present a crescent plea for a move away from postmodernism's purportedly radical irony. This appeal also marks contemporary Russian literature, with several writers propagating a "neo-sentimentalist" substitute for postmodernism.

In American and Western-European literature, similar tendencies repeatedly drew academic attention; but detailed scholarly discussion of Russian neo-sentimentalism lacks until today. This study changes that situation. More specifically, it links the shift from postmodernism towards neo-sentimentalism to the political transition of late-1980s-Russia. Russian writers then confronted a radically new political reality, in which a free market replaced Soviet communism. I propose that their allegedly strictly literarily motivated desire for a "neo-sentimentalism" is in fact tightly linked to socio-economic factors, such as the need for a broad audience. This link will be explored through analyses of three "neo-sentimentalist" authors: Vladimir Sorokin, Timur Kibirov and Dmitrii Vodennikov. Juxtaposing these authors' texts and auto-comments to their social and economical behaviour, this project serves two targets. Firstly, it points to cultural diversification within the international "new sincere" reaction to postmodernism; and secondly, it highlights the sparsely studied link between literarily defined protests against postmodernism and the socio-economic reality in which these protests arise.

Producten

Artikelen

  • Dr. E. Rutten (2007). Tanz zu den roten Stern. Der Russendisko zwischen Ostalgie und Sots Art. Osteuropa. pp. 109-125
  • (2007). Tanzen um den roten Stern. Russendisko zwischen Ostalgie und Sots Art. Schwerpunktheft: der Osten im Wesen-Importe der Populaerkultur. pp. 109-125
  • M. Maguire, Dr. E. Rutten (2007). Recensie Cultural Memory Workshop (NLO, Cambridge). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. pp. 
  • Dr. E. Rutten, Roesen, Dr. C. Lunde (2008). Review Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Sovjet Russia. Canadian Journal of History. pp. 329-332
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2008). Harvest Season. Nikolai Polisskii & The Archstoianie Festival. Mark Magazine. pp. 172-183
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2008). Recensie Landslide of the Norm. Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (Lunde, Roesen, eds.). Canadian Journal of History. pp. 329-333
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2009). Literary Weblogs?. What Happens in Russian Writers' Blogs. kultura. pp. 
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2009). Recensie e-grishkovets.livejournal.com & Evgenii Grishkovets, God Zhzhizni. Tijdschrift voor Slavische literatuur. pp. 77-78. ISSN 0922-1182.
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2009). More Than a (Blog) Poet?. Why Russian Writers Didn't Blog about The 2008 Elections. The Russian Cyberspace Journal. pp.  . ISSN 2040-462X.
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2009). Flirten met Stalin. Schandaal in de Russische kunstwereld. Groene Amsterdammer. pp. 32-34

Bijdragen aan boeken

  • Dr. E. Rutten, Drs S. Scheijen, Dr. O.F. Boele (2007). De gevangenis als paradijs. Nederland in de film Ik wil de nor in!. in: De zwijgende kastelen op jouw heuvels. Amsterdam: . pp. 140-150
  • Dr. E. Rutten (2007). Kashchei Versus the People. Viktor Vasnetsov and Political Fairy-Tales in Russian Culture & Kashchei versus het volk. Viktor Vasnetsov en politieke sprookjes in de Russische cultuur. in: Russian Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Legends & Russische Sprookjes, Volksverhalen en Legenden (boek komt uit in twee talen). Rotterdam: . pp. 50-75. ISBN 978-90-5662-607-2&5.
  • Dr. E. Rutten, Drs K. & D. van Heuckelom, Danaher (2007). Fighting for Princess Russia: Fairytale Representations of Political Forces in Modern Russian Literature. in: Perspectives on Slavic Literatures. Amsterdam: . pp. 26-57
  • Dr. E. Rutten, Dr. E.A. de Haard, Dr. W. Honselaar, Dr. J.M. Stelleman (2008). . in: Judge a Book By Its Cover. : . pp. 
  • Dr. E. Rutten, Dr. S. Brouwer (2009). Strategic Sentiments. in: Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists. Amsterdam: . pp.  . ISBN 9042024879.
  • Dr. E. Rutten, Drs E. de Haard, W. Honselaar, J. Stelleman (2009). Judge a Book by Its Cover.... in: Literature and Beyond. Festschrift for Willem G. Weststeijn. Volume II. : . pp. 689-701