Western Crime Fiction Goes East : The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934.
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Western Crime Fiction Goes East : The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934.
Yazar:
Dralyuk, Boris.
ISBN:
9789004234895
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1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Seri:
Russian History and Culture ; v.11
Russian History and Culture
İçerik:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Names -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Chapter One "As Many Street Cops as Corners": Displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons -- Chapter Two A Terrible Vengeance: The "Avenger Detective" in Russia -- Chapter Three Slumming Littérateurs and Starving Students: The Pinkertons' Purported Authors -- Chapter Four The Persistence of Pinkertons: Reception Before and After the Revolution -- Chapter Five The Red Pinkerton's Rise: Bukharin and the Komsomol -- Chapter Six How the Mess Was Mended: Marietta Shaginian and Red Pinkertonism -- Chapter Seven The Novel, the Film, and the Kinoroman: Parody and the Decline of the Red Pinkerton -- Chapter Eight The Question of Genre and the Pinkertons' Legacy -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
This book examines the staggering popularity of early-twentieth-century Russian detective serials, traditionally maligned as "Pinkertonovshchina," and posits the "red Pinkerton" as a vital "missing link" between pre- and post-Revolutionary popular literature.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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