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Constructing the other: Defining the nation and defining the self in early Soviet and British modernist prose.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constructing the other: Defining the nation and defining the self in early Soviet and British modernist prose./
Author:	Stefani, Sara Marie.
Description:	349 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Katerina Clark.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3317224
ISBN:	9780549656876

Constructing the other: Defining the nation and defining the self in early Soviet and British modernist prose.
Stefani, Sara Marie.

Constructing the other: Defining the nation and defining the self in early Soviet and British modernist prose. - 349 p.

Adviser: Katerina Clark.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

This dissertation examines the nature of cultural understanding and cultural perception between England and Russia during the first decades of the twentieth century. In both countries, this period was one of flux, and writers of both nations were forced to redefine their own beliefs as well as define the direction they believed their countries should take in the face of changing social, historical, cultural, and aesthetic norms. The dissertation contends that, in order to negotiate this changing cultural landscape, British modernist and early Soviet writers tended in their works to utilize a constructed image of the other country against which self-definition could take place. The primary concern here is the question of self-definition as expressed through literary production and how the definition of self is conditioned by and connected to attempts to negotiate a new national and cultural identity. The primary focus of the dissertation is the works of Virginia Woolf and Evgenii Zamiatin. Woolf exhibited a deep interest in Russian writers and Russian themes appear throughout her works, while Zamiatin lived in England for several years and utilized English themes in his writing. In order to place these writers in their proper contexts and adequately understand the constructed definitions of the other culture that they worked with and were influenced by a general historical and cultural overview is provided, which discusses the development of the stereotypes each nation created of the other. This dissertation, therefore, has two main goals: to trace the development of certain stereotypes each nation created of the other and to discuss how those stereotypes were utilized by particular authors in their writing in order to achieve national and personal self-definition.

ISBN: 9780549656876Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Constructing the other: Defining the nation and defining the self in early Soviet and British modernist prose.
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