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Nightmare

From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project

By: Dina Khapaeva

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Nightmare

From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project

By: Dina Khapaeva

An analysis of the novels of Maturin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Lovecraft and Pelevin through the prism of their interest in investigating the nature of the nightmare reveals the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and traces the mosaic of coincidences leading from literary experiments to today’s culture of nightmare consumption.

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9004222758

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9789004222755

Putin’s Dark Ages

Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia

By: Dina Khapaeva

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Putin’s Dark Ages

Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia

By: Dina Khapaeva

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored. This book offers the first comparison of Putin’s political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization and introduces the concept of mobmemory to the study of right-wing populism. It argues that the celebration of the oprichnina, Ivan the Terrible’s regime of state terror (1565–1572), has been fused with the rehabilitation of Stalinism to reconstruct the Russian Empire. The post-Soviet case suggests that the global obsession with the Middle Ages is not purely an aesthetic movement but a potential weapon against democracy. The book is intended for students, scholars, and non-specialists interested in understanding Russia’s anti-modern politics and the Russians’ support for the terror unleashed against Ukraine.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000985164

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9781000985160

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

By: Dina Khapaeva

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The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

By: Dina Khapaeva

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity. Dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry. “Corpse chic” and “skull style” have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book breaks new ground by viewing these phenomena as aspects of a single movement and documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent death with dramatic changes in death-related social rituals. It offers a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds—including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, and the Harry Potter series—with real-world sociocultural practices, analyzing the aesthetic, intellectual, and historical underpinnings of the cult of death. It also places the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement in shaping the current antihumanist atmosphere. This timely, thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars of culture, film, literature, anthropology, and American and Russian studies, as well as general readers seeking to understand a defining phenomenon of our age.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472122622

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9780472122622

Nightmare

From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project

By: Dina Khapaeva

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From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project

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The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

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The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

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Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

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Nightmare

Nightmare

Putin’s Dark Ages

Putin’s Dark Ages

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

Nightmare

Nightmare

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

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