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

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

Soboleva, Olga
Wrenn, Angus

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3034322038
ISBN13: 9783034322034
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Apr 3 2017
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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