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Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire is a key literary form that enacts deep...
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oapen-20.500.12657-747692023-08-03T09:20:27Z Haunted Empire Sobol, Valeria Supernatural, Ukraine, North South Paradigm, Gothic literature bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire is a key literary form that enacts deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms "the imperial uncanny." Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny—the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south—Haunted Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today. 2023-08-03T09:20:25Z 2023-08-03T09:20:25Z 2022 book ONIX_20230803_9781501750595_7 9781501750595 9781501750588 9781501770104 9781501750571 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74769 eng NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501750595.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750571/haunted-empire Cornell University Press Northern Illinois University Press 10.7298/m3ms-qj73 10.7298/m3ms-qj73 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 9781501750595 9781501750588 9781501770104 9781501750571 Northern Illinois University Press 216 Ithaca open access |
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Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire is a key literary form that enacts deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms "the imperial uncanny." Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny—the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south—Haunted Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today. |
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