Table of Contents

• Preface
• LITERATURE
• The War of Discourses: Lolita and the Failure of a Transcendental Project
• The Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today
• The Progressor between the Imperial and the Colonial
• Cycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian Literature
• Flеshing/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin’s Master Trope
• Pussy Riot as the Trickstar
• The Formal Is Political
• FILM
• Post-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s–Early 2000s
• War as the Family Value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein by Valery Todorovsky
• A Road of Violence: My Joy by Sergei Loznitsa
• In Denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by Aleksandr Veledinsky
• Lost in Translation: Short Stories by Mikhail Segal
• Works Cited

About the Author

Mark Lipovetsky is professor and chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and eight books, as well as co-editor of fifteen volumes on Russian literature and culture. Currently, Lipovetsky is working on a critical biography of Dmitry Prigov and editing his collected works. In 2014, Lipovetsky received an award of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages for the outstanding contribution to scholarship.

Reviews

“In recent years, few scholars have transformed the fields of Russian and Slavic literary studies as rigorously as Mark Lipovetsky has. With Postmodern Crises, he unpacks the interconnections between intellectual and popular cultures and politics in contemporary Russia in a series of erudite, nuanced, nonessentialist, and—invariably!—rhetorically powerful analytical inquiries. Scholars, students, philosophers, and politicians who want to understand the crisis of postmodern paradigms, contemporary Russian literature and art, and the political crises of Putin's Russia: read this book.”
*Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam*