Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 8
4. LITERATURE
5. The War of Discourses: Lolita and the Failure of a Transcendental Project 13
6. The Poetics of the ITR Discourse: In the 1960s and Today 33
7. The Progressor between the Imperial and the Colonial 53
8. Cycles and Continuities in Contemporary Russian Literature 87
9. Flеshing/Flashing the Discourse: Sorokin’s Master Trope 109
10. Pussy Riot as the Trickstar 130
11. The Formal Is Political 145
12. FILM
13. Post-Soc: Transformations of Socialist Realism in the Popular Culture of the Late 1990s–Early 2000s 169
14. War as the Family Value: My Stepbrother Frankenstein 195
15. A Road of Violence: My Joy 219
16. In Denial: The Geographer Drank His Globe Away 230
17. Lost in Translation: Short Stories by Mikhail Segal 240
18. Works Cited 248
19. Index 262