{"product_id":"on-the-threshold-of-eurasia-revolutionary-poetics-in-the-caucasus-hardback-9781501726507","title":"On the Threshold of Eurasia; Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus (Hardback) 9781501726507","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn the Threshold of Eurasia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRevolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeah Feldman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501726507\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 3 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeldman (Chicago) places understudied Turkic archives into dialogue with Russian-language works from the Soviet literary and cultural canon... The author's research is likewise presented in the context of postcolonial studies, which illuminates the role of literary modernity in the Soviet multinational empire and in the context of far-right and neo-Eurasianist geopolitics in Putin's Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Threshold of Eurasia \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplores the idea of the Russian and Soviet \"East\" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929.\u003c\/b\u003e Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, \u003ci\u003eOn the Threshold of Eurasia\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had—through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language —on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Heterodoxy and Heterology on the Threshold of Eurasia\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I.: Heterodoxy and Imperial Returns\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e1. Parodic and Messianic Genealogies: Reading Gogol in Azeri in the Late Imperial Caucasus\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aesthetics of Empathy: The Azeri Subject in Translations of Pushkin\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II.: Heterology and Utopian Futures\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e3. A Window onto the East: Baku's Avant-garde Poetics and the \u003ci\u003eTranslatio Imperii\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e4. Broken Verse: The Materiality of the Symbol in New Turkic Poetics\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: Latinization and Refili's \"The Window\" onto Soviet Azerbaijan\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607773770008,"sku":"9781501726507","price":46.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-the-threshold-of-eurasia-revolutionary-poetics-in-the-caucasus-hardback-9781501726507","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}