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The Resource Besieged Leningrad : aesthetic responses to urban disaster, Polina Barskova

Besieged Leningrad : aesthetic responses to urban disaster, Polina Barskova

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During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city’s inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for example, who were brought from afar and robbed of their cultural roots, the victims of the Siege of Leningrad were trapped in the city as it underwent a slow, horrific transformation. They lost everything except their physical location, which was layered with historical, cultural, and personal memory. In Besieged Leningrad, Polina Barskova examines how the city’s inhabitants adjusted to their new urban reality, focusing on the emergence of new spatial perceptions that fostered the production of diverse textual and visual representations. The myriad texts that emerged during the siege were varied and exciting, engendered by sometimes sharply conflicting ideological urges and aesthetic sensibilities. In this first study of the cultural and literary representations of spatiality in besieged Leningrad, Barskova examines a wide range of authors with competing views of their difficult relationship with the city, filling a gap in Western knowledge of the culture of the siege. It will appeal to Russian studies specialists as well as those interested in war testimonies and the representation of trauma. --
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eng
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ix, 232 pages
Contents
  • Walking through the siege: routes, routines, and the paths of the imagination
  • Spatialized allegory: speaking dystrophy otherwise
  • Paradoxes of siege vision: darkness, blindness, and knowledge
  • Framing the siege sublime: urban spectacle and cultural memory
  • The spatial practice of siege reading
  • Reading into the siege: heterochronic directions of escapist reading
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9780875807720
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Besieged Leningrad : aesthetic responses to urban disaster
Title
Besieged Leningrad
Title remainder
aesthetic responses to urban disaster
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Polina Barskova
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Language
eng
Summary
During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city’s inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for example, who were brought from afar and robbed of their cultural roots, the victims of the Siege of Leningrad were trapped in the city as it underwent a slow, horrific transformation. They lost everything except their physical location, which was layered with historical, cultural, and personal memory. In Besieged Leningrad, Polina Barskova examines how the city’s inhabitants adjusted to their new urban reality, focusing on the emergence of new spatial perceptions that fostered the production of diverse textual and visual representations. The myriad texts that emerged during the siege were varied and exciting, engendered by sometimes sharply conflicting ideological urges and aesthetic sensibilities. In this first study of the cultural and literary representations of spatiality in besieged Leningrad, Barskova examines a wide range of authors with competing views of their difficult relationship with the city, filling a gap in Western knowledge of the culture of the siege. It will appeal to Russian studies specialists as well as those interested in war testimonies and the representation of trauma. --
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Barskova, Polina
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  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Collective memory
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Saint Petersburg (Russia)
  • Saint Petersburg (Russia)
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Besieged Leningrad : aesthetic responses to urban disaster, Polina Barskova
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index
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Contents
Walking through the siege: routes, routines, and the paths of the imagination -- Spatialized allegory: speaking dystrophy otherwise -- Paradoxes of siege vision: darkness, blindness, and knowledge -- Framing the siege sublime: urban spectacle and cultural memory -- The spatial practice of siege reading -- Reading into the siege: heterochronic directions of escapist reading
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ocn982091709
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
ix, 232 pages
Isbn
9780875807720
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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illustrations
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(OCoLC)982091709
Label
Besieged Leningrad : aesthetic responses to urban disaster, Polina Barskova
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Walking through the siege: routes, routines, and the paths of the imagination -- Spatialized allegory: speaking dystrophy otherwise -- Paradoxes of siege vision: darkness, blindness, and knowledge -- Framing the siege sublime: urban spectacle and cultural memory -- The spatial practice of siege reading -- Reading into the siege: heterochronic directions of escapist reading
Control code
ocn982091709
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
ix, 232 pages
Isbn
9780875807720
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)982091709

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