Reading Backwards
An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 octobre 2021
ISBN numérique : 978-2-8218-6814-4
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-80064-119-8
Nombre de pages : xxviii-274
Muireann Maguire et Timothy Langen
Introduction: Countersense and InterpretationI. Gogol
Timothy Langen
1. Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O’Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and GogolII. Dostoevsky
David Gillespie et Marina Korneeva
4. Foretelling the Past: Fyodor Dostoevsky Follows Guzel’ Yakhina into the Heart of DarknessInna Tigountsova
5. Notes from the Other Side of the Chronotope: Dostoevsky Anticipating PetrushevskaiaIII. Tolstoy
Steven Shankman
7. The Posteriority of the Anterior: Levinas, Tolstoy, and Responsibility for the OtherSvetlana Yefimenko
8. From Sky to Sea: When Andrei Bolkonskii Voiced AchillesThis book will be of great value to literary scholars and students working in Russian Studies. The introductory discussion of the origins and context of ‘plagiarism by anticipation’, alongside varied applications of the concept, will also be of interest to those working in the wider fields of comparative literature, reception studies, and translation studies.
Muireann Maguire (dir.)
Lectures in Russian Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the principal researcher on ‘RusTrans, The Dark Side of Translation: 20th and 21st Century Translation from Russian as a Political Phenomenon in the UK, Ireland, and the USA’ (2019–23), an academic project funded by the European Research Council. Her academic specializations include Gothic-fantastic literature, the fictional representation of pregnancy and childbirth, and the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Her book Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature was published by Peter Lang in 2012. She has published articles on Russian literature in Modern Language Review, Slavic Review, the Slavonic and East European Review, and other journals.
Timothy Langen (dir.)
Teaches Russian language, literature, and cultural history at the University of Missouri. His research interests include the writings of Nikolai Gogol, Andrey Bely, and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, and the intellectual history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia. He is author of The Stony Dance: Unity and Gesture in Andrey Bely’s “Petersburg” (2005) and co-editor and co-translator, with Justin Weir, of Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays (2000).

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