Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia
Case Studies from Russian and Russian-Jewish Culture
- Edited by:
- Sara Dickinson,
- Laura Salmon,
This book examines the feeling that we often refer to as ‘nostalgia’ from the perspective of writers and artists located on the (imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet) periphery of Russian culture who regard the center of the culture from which they have been excluded with varying degrees of longing and ambivalence. The literary and artistic texts analyzed here have been shaped by these author’s ruminations on social and psychological marginalization, a process that S. Boym has called ‘reflective nostalgia’ and that the authors of this volume also refer to as ‘toska’.
- Keywords:
- nostalgia,
- toska,
- russian literature,
- russian studies,
- russian-jewish studies,
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4
- Series: Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
- Scientific Board
- Language: English
- Subjects: Slavic Literature
University of Genoa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8333-0528
University of Genoa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-2917-7630
Laura Salmon, full professor of Russian at the University of Genoa, has authored five books and more than one hundred scholarly publications that focus on Russian-Jewish culture, humor studies, and translation theory.
Laura Salmon
Chronotopes of Affectivity in Literature. On Melancholy, Estrangement, and Reflective Nostalgia- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.11-30
Sara Dickinson
Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska- CC BY 4.0 |
- © Author(s)
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pp.31-56
pp.57-74
Mario Alessandro Curletto
Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.75-106
Laura Salmon
Melancholic Humor, Skepticism and Reflective Nostalgia. Igor’ Guberman’s Poetics of Paradox- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.107-147
Irina Marchesini
The Presence of Absence. Longing and Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Art and Literature- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.149-165
- Publication Year: 2015
- Pages: 194
- eISBN: 978-88-6655-822-4
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2015 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2015
- Pages: 194
- ISBN: 978-88-6655-821-7
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2015 Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia
Book Subtitle
Case Studies from Russian and Russian-Jewish Culture
Editors
Sara Dickinson, Laura Salmon
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
194
Publication Year
2015
Copyright Information
© 2015 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-821-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-822-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-384-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679
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