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Maxim Gorky : Russian dramatist


Ort: Oxford
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH
Jahr: 2006
Autor(en): Cynthia Marsh
ISBN: 3-03910-305-8
Umfang / Preis: 382 Seiten / EUR 64.20



Maxim Gorky was dubbed the father of socialist realism in the Soviet period, but he had forged his career as an internationally known novelist and dramatist some three or more decades earlier. Posing questions that Soviet critics found difficult to confront, the author examines the effects of exile and religion on the content and form of the plays as well as the role played by women, and the personal and political implications of motherhood. All sixteen of Gorky's published plays are covered, and the book explores whether this body of work has themes and styles to unify it. While conflict is central to the core political themes and also infiltrates many aspects of the dramatic style (cartoonish and grotesque), other less expected themes and styles emerge. Viewing the post-revolutionary plays as a development of earlier work leads to a question rarely posed: are the plays written by Gorky in the process of defining the new Party-inspired socialist realism in fact less about socialist realist issues of conformity, and more about Gorky's own painful life experience? And what is equally under the microscope is a search for the monumental style frequently associated with socialist realist theatre: the proposed origins of the spatial grandeur in Gorky's plays come as a surprise.
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Table of Contents

    9    Preface
  19     Acknowledgements
  21     Abbreviations
  23     Index of Gorky's plays
  27     Illustrations
  29     Prologue. Putting an the style: Gorky as playwright

      Part I Debut. 1882-1905
  51     Chapter 1 The theatrical context
  69     Chapter 2 On the attack: Philistines (1902)
  89     Chapter 3 Truth, lies and theatre: The Lower Depths (1902)
121     Chapter 4 Gorky and the intelligentsia: Summerfolk, Children of the Sun and Barbarians

      Part II Off-stage: 1906-1917
153     Chapter 5 Abroad
175     Chapter 6 Claiming spaces: Enemies
203     Chapter 7 A tragic sideshow: The Last Ones, Eccentrics, The Reception and Vassa Zheleznova
247     Chapter 8 Polemic and melodrama: Counterfeit Coin, The Zykovs, The Old Man and Iakov Bogomolov

      Part III Peripeteia: 1917-1936
287     Chapter 9 Soviet dramatist
301     Chapter 10 Back to the future: Egor Bulychev and the Others and Dostigaev and the Others
331     Chapter 11 Representing the present: Somov and the Others and Vassa Zheleznova (2)

357     Epilogue
363     Bibliography
377     Index


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Typ: Monographie (Print)
Sprache: Englisch
Epochale Zuordnung: 19. / 20. Jahrhundert


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