Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore

by Margaret Ziolkowski

Book Overview

Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny ("new songs"), have often been the subject of folkloristic controversy. This study tells the story of the rise and fall of the noviny in all its cultural richness and pathos, an instructive tale of the interaction of aesthetics and ideology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611494567
• ISBN13: 9781611494563
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"