ISBN:
9780674146266
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (384 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Common Places : Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
DDC:
306.0947
Keywords:
Popular culture ; Russia (Federation)
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Popular culture ; Soviet Union
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Russia (Federation) ; Social life and customs
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Soviet Union ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Title page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Theoretical Common Places -- Rubber Plants and the Soviet Order of Things -- Archeology of the Common Place -- A Labyrinth without a Monster -- The Mythologist as Traveler -- 1. Mythologies of Everyday Life -- Byt: Daily Grind and Domestic Trash -- Poshlost': Banality, Obscenity, Bad Taste -- Meshchanstvo: Middle Class, Middlebrow -- Private Life and Russian Soul -- Truth, Sincerity, Affectation -- Kul'turnost': The Totalitarian Lacquer Box -- Soviet Songs: From Stalin's Fairy Tale to "Good-bye, Amerika -- 2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment -- Family Romance and Communal Utopia -- Art and the Housing Crisis: Intellectuals in the Closet -- Welcome to the Communal Apartment -- Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life -- Interior Decoration -- The Ruins of Utopia -- A Homecoming, 1991 -- 3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania -- History of the Literary Disease -- The Forgotten Classics -- The Genius of the People and the Conceptual Police -- Glasnost,' Graphomania, and Popular Culture -- A Taxi Ride with a Graphomaniac -- 4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism -- The End of the Soviet World: From the Barricades to the Bazaar -- Glasnost' Streetwalking: Fallen Monuments and Rising Dolls -- Stalin's Cinematic Charisma, or History as Kitsch -- Trashy Jewels of Women Artists -- Merchant Renaissance and Cultural Scandals -- The Obscure Object of Advertisement -- Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place -- Notes -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Introduction: Theoretical Common Places""; ""Rubber Plants and the Soviet Order of Things""; ""Archeology of the Common Place""; ""A Labyrinth without a Monster""; ""The Mythologist as Traveler""; ""1. Mythologies of Everyday Life""; ""Byt: Daily Grind and Domestic Trash""; ""Poshlost': Banality, Obscenity, Bad Taste""; ""Meshchanstvo: Middle Class, Middlebrow""; ""Private Life and Russian Soul""; ""Truth, Sincerity, Affectation""; ""Kul'turnost': The Totalitarian Lacquer Box""; ""Soviet Songs: From Stalin's Fairy Tale to ""Good-bye, Amerika""""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment""""Family Romance and Communal Utopia""; ""Art and the Housing Crisis: Intellectuals in the Closet""; ""Welcome to the Communal Apartment""; ""Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life""; ""Interior Decoration""; ""The Ruins of Utopia""; ""A Homecoming, 1991""; ""3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania""; ""History of the Literary Disease""; ""The Forgotten Classics""; ""The Genius of the People and the Conceptual Police""; ""Glasnost,' Graphomania, and Popular Culture""; ""A Taxi Ride with a Graphomaniac""; ""4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The End of the Soviet World: From the Barricades to the Bazaar""""Glasnost' Streetwalking: Fallen Monuments and Rising Dolls""; ""Stalin's Cinematic Charisma, or History as Kitsch""; ""Trashy Jewels of Women Artists""; ""Merchant Renaissance and Cultural Scandals""; ""The Obscure Object of Advertisement""; ""Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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