Aleksandr Polezhaev and Remembrance of War in the Caucasus
Constructions of the Soldier as Victim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4737355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Layton (Centre d’études des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 559-583 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2697568 |
| PMID | 22312660 |
| OpenAlex | W2333022100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.-Shakespeare,Twelfth NightPaul Fussell'sThe Great War and Modern Memorywas a landmark in the study of literature's role in shaping a society's remembrance of war. Although Fussell's book is primarily devoted to famous British poets of World War I, he stimulates thinking about the general question of how any military conflict comes to exist in the minds of civilian readers. A fascinating aspect of this immense topic concerns the power of words in the absence of images. Before newsreels and television regularly exposed civilians to scenes of carnage, writers had to rely on language to "depict" things a reader had never witnessed and probably never would. A picture can serve as a powerful substitute for seeing a massacre, and just one may leave an indelible mark. But words alone lack the stunning immediacy of visual images, an argument we can trace back to Aristotle. Verbal "depiction" is only a metaphor, as Viktor Shklovskii stressed when he asserted (with reference to suicide) that "'Blood' in poetry is not bloody." Unlike some deconstructionists, Shklovskii was not fretting about how much reality bloodshed has "prior to verbal configurations." He pinpointed instead the emotional and aesthetic detachment of readers never threatened by violence
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Depiction · Epistemology · Immediacy · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Poetry · Power (physics · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Philosophy
Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ
No man's land
Art and Answerability
The Reader as Voyeur
Fallen Soldiers
An Empire for the Masses
Russian Subjects
The Politics of Autocracy
Russian Literature and Empire
Russia between Europe and Asia
The News under Russia's Old Regime
The Power of Images
Imperial Russia and Its Orient
The Politics of Poetry
Parallel Lives
Sculpting a Persona
The Remaking of the Lion of Dagestan
Arctic Mirrors
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |