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Against Privatized Poetry

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about Soviet poetry? idk

Medvedev, K. (2013). Against Privatized Poetry. In Left Review, N. New Left Review 82. New Left Review Ltd, pp. 65-84

(noun) the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature

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A new avant-garde also emerged from among philology students in Leningrad, who looked to the poetry of the pre- and post-revolutionary experimentalists

—p.67 by Kirill Medvedev
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A new avant-garde also emerged from among philology students in Leningrad, who looked to the poetry of the pre- and post-revolutionary experimentalists

—p.67 by Kirill Medvedev
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the opposite or counterpart of a fact or truth; the side of a coin or medal bearing the head or principal design

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whose political commitments were interpreted by members of the underground as being the obverse of ‘the Soviet’

—p.69 by Kirill Medvedev
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whose political commitments were interpreted by members of the underground as being the obverse of ‘the Soviet’

—p.69 by Kirill Medvedev
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(noun) a change or variation occurring in the course of something; successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs

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Amid the political vicissitudes of the early 1990s, contemporary poetry itself seemed incapable of generating new political meanings

—p.70 by Kirill Medvedev
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Amid the political vicissitudes of the early 1990s, contemporary poetry itself seemed incapable of generating new political meanings

—p.70 by Kirill Medvedev
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a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost ("openness") policy reform

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The dramatic re-politicization of society that began with perestroika also affected poetry, of course.

—p.70 by Kirill Medvedev
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The dramatic re-politicization of society that began with perestroika also affected poetry, of course.

—p.70 by Kirill Medvedev
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(sociology) A fundamental unit of ideology; popularised by Frederic Jameson in The Political Unconscious (1981)

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the ‘private character of literary activity’ became an ideologeme that allowed literary figures who were in one way or another engaged in collective production—including the production of political meanings—simultaneously to deny the character of this activity

—p.71 by Kirill Medvedev
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the ‘private character of literary activity’ became an ideologeme that allowed literary figures who were in one way or another engaged in collective production—including the production of political meanings—simultaneously to deny the character of this activity

—p.71 by Kirill Medvedev
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(of a seal or closure) complete and airtight

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The aim is to reveal the subterranean, subconscious mutual penetration of the personal and the political; the formal consequence is a highly personalized, almost hermetic form of collage

—p.82 by Kirill Medvedev
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The aim is to reveal the subterranean, subconscious mutual penetration of the personal and the political; the formal consequence is a highly personalized, almost hermetic form of collage

—p.82 by Kirill Medvedev
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(noun) the lower middle class including especially small shopkeepers and artisans

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This is a space in which, in principle, neither direct political propaganda nor civic expressions of emotion, neither ‘petty-bourgeois’ psychologism nor refined formal experiments, are forbidden

—p.83 by Kirill Medvedev
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This is a space in which, in principle, neither direct political propaganda nor civic expressions of emotion, neither ‘petty-bourgeois’ psychologism nor refined formal experiments, are forbidden

—p.83 by Kirill Medvedev
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