Russian Reception of the US 20th-Century Literary Process: The Ideological Battles of the 1920–30s
Russian Reception of the US 20th-Century Literary Process: The Ideological Battles of the 1920–30s

Summary/Abstract: The main object of my research for the last ten years has been the investigation of the key points of the development of the US 20thcentury prose reception by Russian scholars from the early Soviet period to post-Soviet times. Two periods can be distinguished in this process. The first one is the foundation of the Soviet American Literary Studies in the 1920– 30s. The main ideological and literary conflict originated in this early period. Young Soviet critics treated the idea of Americanism very contradictorily. On the one hand there was revolutionary nihilism towards everything American; on the other there was an often subconscious interest in and admiration for the young energy revealed in the US literary art.

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