Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Mimesis : The Analytic Anthropology of Literature - Valery Podoroga

Mimesis

The Analytic Anthropology of Literature

By: Valery Podoroga, Evgeni V. Pavlov (Translator)

eBook | 9 August 2022

At a Glance

eBook


RRP $34.12

$27.99

18%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.00 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

Ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated for the first time

Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it he gives a panorama view of Russian writing, focusing in on the work of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Andrei Bely. He identifies these authors as pioneers in creating an 'other literature'. This constituted a new form of mimesis or vision of the world, in opposition to the Imperial and national myths.

In Mimesis Podoroga develops and elaborates his analytic anthropological approach on these authors with startling effect, excavating the identities and forms of Russian literature, and society. He places an emphasis on how a literary work is a process of world building: both internally by creating a fictive world, but also how it reflects the wider world in which it was produced, and the power with which it changes the world.
 
Finally, the literary work's ability to exist in a time that is other than its own time, a time where it does not have a contemporary reader and an author who exercises his will, but where it nonetheless continues to mean something.

Mimesis is rightly seen as the masterwork of one of the world's leading literary thinkers.

About the Author

Valery Podoroga was born in Moscow in 1946 and was a leading figure at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science until his death in 2020. He authored over 200 articles and ten monographs, he was award the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for literature in 2001.
on

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 1st October 2024

More in History & Criticism of Literature

Growing Up Chicana/o - Bill Adler

eBOOK

The Double-Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan

eBOOK

RRP $35.99

$28.99

19%
OFF
Get Rich Cheating : The Crooked Path to Easy Street - Jeff Kreisler

eBOOK

The Icarus Syndrome : A History of American Hubris - Peter Beinart

eBOOK