Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union

Acknowledgements




Introductory Remarks

Riccardo Nicolosi and Brigitte Obermayr




A. Theory and History of Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union (1920s-1930s)

1. New Adventures for the Soviet Present. Conceptualizations and Debates Surrounding a Contested Popular Literary Genre

Matthias Schwartz

2. "We Are Incapable of Creating the Simplest Criminal Plot . . .": The Formalist Theory of Prose and Russian Experimental Adventure Literature of the 1920s

Aage A. Hansen-Loeve

3. Poetics of Adventure in the 1920s (from Shklovsky to Bakhtin)

Riccardo Nicolosi

4. The Magic of Cinema: Vladimir Vainshtok and a Socialist Film Poetics of Adventure

Matthias Schwartz




B. Case studies

5. Munchhausen's Adventures in Early Soviet Fiction

Mark Lipovetsky

6. Ostap Bender: From an Adventurer to a Bureaucrat. Transformations of the Early Soviet Rogue Narrative in The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931)

Riccardo Nicolosi

7. Meta-Adventures: Vsevolod Ivanov's and Viktor Shklovsky's Novel Iprit in the Context of the Early Soviet Boom of Adventure Literature

Brigitte Obermayr

8. Leaping over Death: Adventurous Agency in Fyodor Gladkov's Cement (1925)

Christiane Schaefer

9. Andrei Platonov's Novel Chevengur as a Journey of Adventure

Hans Guenther

10. Revolutionary Adventures in China: Internationalism and Early Soviet Adventure Fiction

Edward Tyerman

11. Zinaida Rikhter's Flight Adventure: An 'Adventure Travel Sketch'

Tatjana Hofmann

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adventure fiction; socialist realism; Soviet literary theorists; Russian Stevenson; Soviet writers; Early Soviet Cinema; Early Soviet Prose; Adventure literature; historical reconstruction; Early Socialist Realism; Lev Lunts; imperialism; literary hero; Soviet topography; theory of prose; socialist realist film; Russophone avantgarde literature; philological analysis; Russophone avantgarde prose; dime-novels; Russian Formalism; Viktor Shklovsky; Mikhail Bakhtin