The Literary Field under Communist Rule

Edited by Aušra Jurgutienė|Dalia Satkauskytė

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This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of literary field and analyzes the interactions of literature, power, and economics under the communist rule. The articles selected include theoretical discussions and case studies from different national literatures presenting different structural elements of the Soviet literary field, as well as phenomena created by the complexity of the field itself, such as the Aesopian language, state of emergency literature, or compromise as the essential element of the writers’ identity.

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About the author

Aušra Jurgutienė is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She has published more than 70 articles and is author of two monographs in Lithuanian: New Romanticism from Longing (1998), and The Art of Literary Interpretation: The Hermeneutical Tradition (2013). She is also the editor and co-author of academic textbooks and readers in literary theory.

Dalia Satkauskyte is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. She is the author of monographs in Lithuanian Language Consciousness in Lithuanian Poetry (1996) and Profiles of Subjectivity in Lithuanian Literature (2008), and author of more than forty articles in Lithuanian, English, Russian, French, Polish, and German on contemporary literature, literary theory, and sociocriticism.

ISBN: 9781644690871

Format: eBook

Publication Date: 03/06/2019

Imprint: Academic Studies Press