From Orientalism to Cultural Capital : The Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1920s

• Tác giả: Olga Soboleva, Angus Wrenn
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1787073944
• ISBN: b11211
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 820.9 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bern, Switzerland : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2017
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 237028
• Chủ đề: 1. Literary studies: from c 1900 -

Tóm tắt

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.