Beyond Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in Soviet Literature

by David Shepherd

Although metafiction has been the subject of much critical and theoretical writing, this is the first full-length study of its place in Soviet literature. Focusing on metafictional works by Leonid Leonov, Marietta Shaginyan, Konstantin Vaginov, and Veniamin Kaverin, it examines, within a broadly Bakhtinian theoretical framework, the relationship between their self-consciousness and their cultural and political context. The texts are shown to challenge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198156669
• ISBN13: 9780198156666
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"