Flesh to metal : Soviet literature and the alchemy of revolution / Rolf Hellebust.

Main entry:

Hellebust, Rolf.

Title & Author:

Flesh to metal : Soviet literature and the alchemy of revolution / Rolf Hellebust.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

Description:

221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.
A special material : the meaning of metal imagery -- Forging the future : proletarian poetry and revolutionary transformation -- Anvil to blast furnace : metal imagery in socialist realism -- The Metaphor realized : fellow travelers and thereafter -- The Beginning and end of history : metallization and myth.

Summary:

The "purest distillate of the utopian premises of Marxism," believes Hellebust (Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian studies; U. of Calgary; Canada), were transformative images that viewed the human body as metal and machine. He explores the artistic and political symbolisms of metal/body imageries in separate Soviet eras. Both literary and visual imagery is included. The Soviet Russian example is considered in the context of wider questions of modernity and technology. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801441536 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801441530 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801488923 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780801488924 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Russian literature 20th century History and criticism.
Literature and technology Soviet Union.
Technology in literature.
Myth in literature.
Metals in literature.
Littérature russe 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature et technologie URSS.
Technologie dans la littérature.
Mythe dans la littérature.
Métaux dans la littérature.
Literature and technology
Russian literature
Russische Revolutie.
Letterkunde.
Soviet Union

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259897
Call No.: BIB 190811
Status: Available

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