{"product_id":"the-soviet-novel-third-edition-history-as-ritual-9780253213679","title":"The Soviet Novel, Third Edition: History as Ritual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In its sure grasp of a huge subject and in its speculative boldness, Professor Clark's study represents a major breakthrough. It sends one back to the original texts with a whole host of new questions. . . . And it also helps us to understand the place of the 'official' writer in that peculiar mixture of ideology, collective pressure, and inspiration which is the Soviet literary process.\" --Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Soviet Novel has had an enormous impact on the way Stalinist culture is studied in a range of disciplines (literature scholarship, history, cultural studies, even anthropology and political science).\" --Slavic Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Those readers who have come to realize that history is a branch of mythology will find Clark's book a stimulating and rewarding account of Soviet mythopoesis.\" --American Historical Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dynamic account of the socialist realist novel's evolution as seen in the context of Soviet culture. A new Afterword brings the history of Socialist Realism to its end at the close of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaterina Clark is Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She is author of Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution and coauthor (with Michael Holquist of Mikhail Bakhtin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460073132306,"sku":"9780253213679","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bcb65aff-6924-4a01-aed1-197fd1155cb5.jpg?v=1730025519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-soviet-novel-third-edition-history-as-ritual-9780253213679","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}