{"title":"Valery Podoroga","description":"\u003cp\u003eValery Podoroga’s works delve into the intricate relationship between language, culture, and artistic expression. His writing challenges readers to explore the boundaries of literary theory and the philosophy of art through a profound and often poetic lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect texts that engage deeply with concepts like mimesis, inviting a thoughtful examination of how art reflects and shapes human experience within the broader spectrum of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mimesis-by-valery-podoroga-9781786636676","title":"Mimesis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it, he gives a panoramic view of Russian writing, focusing on the work of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Andrei Bely. He identifies these authors as pioneers in creating an 'other literature'. This constituted a new form of \u003ci\u003emimesis\u003c\/i\u003e or vision of the world, in opposition to the Imperial and national myths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMimesis\u003c\/i\u003e, Podoroga develops and elaborates his analytic anthropological approach on these authors with startling effect, excavating the identities and forms of Russian literature and society. He places an emphasis on how a literary work is a process of world building: both internally by creating a fictive world, but also how it reflects the wider world in which it was produced, and the power with which it changes the world. Finally, the literary work’s ability to exist in a time that is \u003ci\u003eother\u003c\/i\u003e than its own time, a time where it does not have a contemporary reader and an author who exercises his will, but where it nonetheless continues to mean something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMimesis\u003c\/i\u003e is rightly seen as the masterwork of one of the world's leading literary thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47425752563948,"sku":"9781786636676","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781786636676.jpg?v=1774768106"},{"product_id":"mimesis-by-valery-podoroga-9781804294895","title":"Mimesis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second part of Valery Podoroga's masterly work on the politics of literature and how it is used to construct the world. With a focus on the revolutionary works of Andrei Platonov and the futurist collective Oberiu, Podoroga shows how profoundly the Soviet experiment overturned the traditional expectation of fiction and poetry. He explores how the production of this work was intensely interwoven with the political and historical debates of the times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume expands on his critical explanation of the analytic anthropology of literature. He examines how literature can be used in 'world-building', both in what happens inside the narrative and in the way it reflects the external world. He also investigates how the work functions outside of its times, both as a means to project into the future and as a document of a former age. How are we to read the past through these works of the imagination?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introductory essay from the author’s daughter, Ioulia Podoroga, and a preface from Frederic James, \u003cem\u003eMimesis\u003c\/em\u003e provides a profound exploration of literature's impact on and interaction with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597011075308,"sku":"9781804294895","price":67.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e0ffdabb443de8c02f1c625d737216d9.jpg?v=1778038602"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/valery-podoroga.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}