| The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia Contributor(s): McQuillen, Colleen (Editor), Vaingurt, Julia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1618117793 ISBN-13: 9781618117793 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $46.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 891.709 |
| LCCN: 2018018538 |
| Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.87 lbs) 278 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterizes lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as a machine, the postmodern, postindustrial period probes the meaning of being human not only from a physical, bodily perspective, but also from the philosophical perspectives of subjectivity and consciousness. The Human Reimagined examines the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society. Contributors include: Alex Anikina, Keti Chukhrov, Jacob Emery, Elana Gomel, Sofya Khagi, Katerina Lakhmitko, Colleen McQuillen, Jonathan Brooks Platt, Kristina Toland, Julia Vaingurt, Diana Kurkovsky West, Trevor Wilson |
Contributor Bio(s): Vaingurt, Julia: - Julia Vaingurt is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Russian modernism and avant-garde, including Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Northwestern University Press, 2013). |