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Literary Insinuations
Walter F. Kolonosky
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Description for Literary Insinuations
Hardback. The first in-depth examination of Sinyavsky's satirical side,Literary Insinuations: Sorting out Sinyavsky's Irreverence not only discusses the relatively under-analysed area of playful and provocative writing, but also ties together a number of loose ends in the fascinating and often contentious field of Sinyavsky scholarship. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Scholar, satirist, and critic, Andrei Sinyavsky was considered so politically dangerous to the Russian communist regime that he was sentenced to the gulag for seven years. Given the grim political circumstances in which he wrote, it is hardly surprising that many theorists have overlooked the strain of dark humor that runs through many of his writings. The first in-depth examination of Sinyavsky's satirical side, Literary Insinuations: Sorting out Sinyavsky's Irreverance is one of the few English-language works on this brilliant author. Walter Kolonosky combines rich historical detail with close textual analysis to produce a study of playful and provocative writing ... Read more
Scholar, satirist, and critic, Andrei Sinyavsky was considered so politically dangerous to the Russian communist regime that he was sentenced to the gulag for seven years. Given the grim political circumstances in which he wrote, it is hardly surprising that many theorists have overlooked the strain of dark humor that runs through many of his writings. The first in-depth examination of Sinyavsky's satirical side, Literary Insinuations: Sorting out Sinyavsky's Irreverance is one of the few English-language works on this brilliant author. Walter Kolonosky combines rich historical detail with close textual analysis to produce a study of playful and provocative writing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739104880
SKU
V9780739104880
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About Walter F. Kolonosky
Walter F. Kolonosky is Professor of Russian at Kansas State University. His interest in Russian led him to research in Russian literature of the twentieth century and literary theory, the results of which he has published in theSlavic and East European Journal, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and the Russian Literature Triquarterly.
Reviews for Literary Insinuations
...With it's broad scope and solid bibliography it will serve as a resource for further investigations of Sinyavsky/Terts.
Slavic and East European Journal
Whether writing as himself or as the irrepressible Abram Terts, Andrei Siniavskii did not make it easy for academic critics who have to deal with the fact that this heroic imagination could not be contained ... Read more
Slavic and East European Journal
Whether writing as himself or as the irrepressible Abram Terts, Andrei Siniavskii did not make it easy for academic critics who have to deal with the fact that this heroic imagination could not be contained ... Read more