Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION vii
4. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Postmodernism and the Explosive Style of the Twenty-First Century xiii
5. INTRODUCTION “New Sectarianism” and the Pleasure Principle in Postmodern Russian Culture 1
6. Part I THE MAKING OF RUSSIAN POSTMODERNISM
7. Chapter 1 THE DIALECTICS OF HYPER From Modernism to Postmodernism 23
8. Chapter 2 POSTMODERNISM, COMMUNISM, AND SOTS-ART 51
9. Chapter 3 THE 1960S AND THE REDISCOVERY OF THE OTHER IN RUSSIAN CULTURE Andrei Bitov 95
10. Chapter 4 PERESTROIKA AS A SHIFT IN LITERARY PARADIGM 151
11. Part II MANIFESTOS OF RUSSIAN POSTMODERNISM
12. Literary Manifestos
13. Chapter 5 THESES ON METAREALISM AND CONCEPTUALISM 169
14. Chapter 6 ON OLGA SEDAKOVA AND LEV RUBINSHTEIN 177
15. Chapter 7 WHAT IS METAREALISM? Facts and Hypotheses 182
16. Chapter 8 WHAT IS A METABOLE? (On the Third Trope) 189
17. Chapter 9 LIKE A CORPSE IN THE DESERT Dehumanization in the New Moscow Poetry 198
18. Chapter 10 A CATALOGUE OF NEW POETRIES 209
19. Cultural Manifestos
20. Chapter 11 ESSAYISM An Essay on the Essay 216
21. Chapter 12 THE ECOLOGY OF THINKING 222
22. Chapter 13 MINIMAL RELIGION 227
23. Chapter 14 THE AGE OF UNIVERSALISM 236
24. Chapter 15 THE PARADOX OF ACCELERATION 241
25. Part III SOCIALIST REALISM AND POSTMODERNISM
26. Chapter 16 ARCHAIC POSTMODERNISM The Aesthetics of Andrei Sinyavsky 249
27. Chapter 17 POSTMODERNISM AND SOTS-REALISM From Andrei Sinyavsky to Vladimir Sorokin 261
28. Chapter 18 BORDERS AND METAMORPHOSES Viktor Pelevin in the Context of Post-Soviet Literature 276
29. Part IV CONCEPTUALISM
30. Chapter 19 THE NEW MODEL OF DISCOURSE IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN FICTION Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia 291
31. Chapter 20 HETEROGENEITY AND THE RUSSIAN POST-AVANT-GARDE The Excremental Poetics of Vladimir Sorokin 333
32. Chapter 21 EMPTINESS AS A TECHNIQUE Word and Image in Ilya Kabakov 363
33. Chapter 22 THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIAN CONCEPTUALISM 410
34. Part V POSTMODERNISM AND SPIRITUALITY
35. Chapter 23 POST-ATHEISM From Apophatic Theology to “Minimal Religion” 431
36. Chapter 24 ONIONS AND CABBAGES Paradigms of Contemporary Culture 480
37. Chapter 25 CHARMS OF ENTROPY AND NEW SENTIMENTALITY The Myth of Venedikt Erofeev 509
38. CONCLUSION On the Place of Postmodernism in Postmodernity 542
39. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 555
40. INDEX OF NAMES 564
41. INDEX OF SUBJECTS 571