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On Russian Soil
- Myth and Materiality
Engelsk Hardback
On Russian Soil
- Myth and Materiality
Engelsk Hardback

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Blending close readings of literature, films, and other artworks with analysis of texts of political philosophy, science, and social theory, Mieka Erley offers an interdisciplinary perspective on attitudes to soil in Russia and the Soviet Union from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. As Erley shows in On Russian Soil, the earth has inspired utopian dreams, reactionary ideologies, social theories, and durable myths about the relationship between nation and nature. In this period of modernization, soil was understood as the collective body of the nation, sitting at the crux of all economic and social problems. The "soil question" was debated by nationalists and radical materialists, Slavophiles and Westernizers, poets and scientists. On Russian Soil highlights a selection of key myths at the intersection of cultural and material history that show how soil served as a natural, national, and symbolic resource from Fedor Dostoevsky's native soil movement to Nikita Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign at the Soviet periphery in the 1960s. Providing an original contribution to ecocriticism and environmental humanities, Erley expands our understanding of how cultural processes write nature and how nature inspires culture. On Russian Soil brings Slavic studies into new conversations in the environmental humanities, generating fresh interpretations of literary and cultural movements and innovative readings of major writers.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501755699
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501755692
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 jun 2021
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jun 2021
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge