Mimesis: The Analytic Anthropology of Literature Podoroga Valery
Mimesis: The Analytic Anthropology of Literature Podoroga Valery Ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated for the first timeValery Podoroga was one of the most important…
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Mimesis: The Analytic Anthropology of Literature Podoroga Valery
Ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated for the first timeValery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. In it he gives a panorama view of Russian writing, focusing in on the work of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Andrei Bely. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time.
This constituted a new form of mimesis or vision of the world, in opposition to the Imperial and national myths.In Mimesis Podoroga develops and elaborates his analytic anthropological approach on these authors with startling effect, excavating the identities and forms of Russian literature, and society. He identifies these authors as pioneers in creating an 'other literature'. He places an emphasis on how a literary work is a process of world building: both internally by creating a fictive world,
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