Table of Contents: Charms of the cynical reason

Main Author:	Lipovet{u0361}skiĭ, M. N.
Other Authors:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.
Physical Description:	296 pages : illustrations.
Series:	Cultural revolutions.
Subjects:	Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Tricksters in literature. Tricksters in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History. Motion pictures -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century. Literature and society -- Soviet Union -- History. Literature and society -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century.

Table of Contents:

1.
At The Heart Of Soviet Civilization:
The meaning of the trickster trope;
The trickster's politics;
The trickster trope and the Soviet subjectivity;
Cynical or kynical?
2.
Khulio Khurenito: the Trickster's Revolution:
Modernizing the trickster;
The method: overidentification;
Why did Khurenito decide to die?
3.
Ostap Bender: the King Is Born:
Ostap as trickster;
Social schizophrenia;
A kynical king of the cynics
4.
Buratino: the Utopia of a Free Marionette:
Buratino as a mediator;
Buratino as an artist;
Buratino as a cynic
5.
Venichka: a Tragic Trickster:
The trickster as the underground author;
Rituals of expenditure;
"I Will Not Explain to You Who Were These Four ..."
6.
Tricksters In Disguise: The Trickster's Transformations In The Soviet Film Of The 1960s-70s:
"Reformed" tricksters in the comedies of the 70s-80s: Gaidai's Tricksters; Riazanov's Detochkin; Daneliia's Buzykin;
The art of alibi: Stierlitz as the Soviet intelligent : Who are you working for?; The Imperial Mediator; Stierlitz's Afterlife
7.
Splitting The Trickster: Pelevin's Shape-Shifters:
The society of shape-shifters;
Genealogy of the heroine;
A fairytale about shape-shifters;
The trickster's magic/politics: a bifurcation point;
Cynic versus kynic.