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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from th...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-314042021-11-04T14:06:36Z From Orientalism to Cultural Capital Soboleva, Olga Wrenn, Angus Literature Anglo-Russian connections British literature Modernism Russophilia Fyodor Dostoevsky Ivan Turgenev John Galsworthy Leo Tolstoy London Virginia Woolf bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and the notion of «cultural capital» associated with Pierre Bourdieu. Examining the responses of leading literary practitioners who had a significant impact on the institutional transmission of Russian culture, they reassess the mechanics of cultural dialogism, mediation and exchange, casting new light on British perceptions of modernism as a transcultural artistic movement and the ways in which the literary interaction with the myth of Russia shaped and intensified these cultural views. 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2020-03-22 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:34:01Z 2020-04-01T13:34:01Z 2017-03-31 book 628404 OCN: 993628256 9781787073944 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31404 eng application/pdf n/a 628404.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b11211 100658 10.3726/b11211 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781787073944 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100658 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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