ABSTRACT

This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature. It takes some of the central issues of the critical debate to develop a conception of postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos and places Russian literature in the context of an enriched postmodernism.

part I|2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|34 pages

Chaos as a System

part II|2 pages

Culture as Chaos

part III|2 pages

The Poetics of Chaosmos

chapter 6|19 pages

Context: Soviet Utopia

chapter 7|28 pages

Context: Mythologies of Creation

chapter 8|27 pages

Context: Mythologies of History

chapter 9|39 pages

Context: Mythologies of the Absurd

chapter 10|11 pages

Famous Last Words

part IV|2 pages

Conclusion

chapter 11|16 pages

On the Nature of Russian Postmodernism