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Писатели, масова литература и литература за масите
Writers, Mass Literature and Literature for the Masses

Author(s): Stiliyan Stoyanov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: mass literature; crowd; poetics; reception; Russian revolution of 1917; sociology of literature
Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on the functions of literature and writers in the age of the “mass revolt”. It is placed the emphasis on enhancing the educational function of literature. The author analyzes some texts of writers who visited the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. It is considered the problem of managing the mass man through the texts of the literature.

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