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On Russian Soil Myth and Materiality
Author
Title
On Russian Soil Myth and Materiality / Mieka Erley.
ISBN
9781501755712
1501755714
9781501755699
1501755692
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
"On Russian Soil explores how long-established myths of soil were reinvented for the modern age. At once a biography of a material object and a work of intellectual and cultural history, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Russian attitudes to soil from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2021
Series
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Contents
Groundwork
Native soil: the roots of the Herderian organic nation
Matter: models of soil and society
Dirt: dirty literature
Sediment: Soviet construction on asian soil
Wasteland: Platonov's dialectics of waste and recuperation
Virgin land: the libidinal economy of virgin land
Beyond earth.
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