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The New Russian Book; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration and Translation; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Research Design; Book Design in Theory; Literary Studies: The Book Cover as a Textual Threshold; Book History: The Material Book and the Sociology of the Text; Media and Visual Studies: The Book Cover Between Text and Image; Research Diversities: The Western Book Conceptualized as Trade Object...; ...versus the Russian Book Sacralized as an Integral Organism; Russian Book Studies: From Soviet Book Art to Post-Soviet Book Design; Notes
PART I Russian Book Design from the Soviet Period to the Present2 The Soviet Hardback Revolution; The "Paperback Revolution" and Mass Culture in the West...; ...versus "Hardening" of a People's Culture in the USSR; A Test Sample; The 1920s: A "Paper Decade" of "Oblozhki"; The 1930s: Centralization, Standardization, Serialization, and the Hardback; A Hierarchy of Text and Image; World War II: Back to the Paperback; The Post-War Hardback as Mass Product and Monument; The Thaw: Book Art Exhibitions, Dust Jackets, and Unbound Samizdat; 1968: A Soviet "Pocket Book" Dispute
Late Soviet Period: The Standardized Book in CrisisNotes; 3 Perestroika and Post-Soviet Redesign; How to Design "Democratization"?; Early 1990s: From "Knizhnaia Kul'tura" to "Knizhnaia Khaltura"; The Import of Western Computer Technology; The Export of Russian Book Art; The Import of Western Cover Motifs; A State Defense against the Declining Culture of the Book?; Turbulent Fluctuations of Paperbacks and Hardbacks; Notes; 4 Russian Book Design Today; The New Central Function of the Book Cover; Market Segmentation versus Design Hybridization
Serialization and Centralization: The End of Plurality?Internationalization: Copyright, ISBNs, and the Book Spine; The Ambivalent Notion of the Paperback; "Capitalist Realism" and the Return of Monumental Books; Notes; Part II Changing Values in Visual Representation of Literature; 5 The Classic Returns: Anton Chekhov's "Dama s sobachkoi"; Drama or Vaudeville: The Pre-Revolutionary "Dama s sobachkoi"; Chekhov's Works After the Revolution: From Paperback to Hardback; "Dama s sobachkoi" in Soviet Book Illustration; From Perestroika Reinterpretations to...the End of "Dama s sobachkoi"?
Chekhov's Revival, 1999-2010List of Chekhov Editions; Notes; 6 The Western World in a Russian Pocket?; Chase in Britain: Orwell's Totalitarian Nightmare; Continental Chase: Deleuze's Postmodern Master of Pastiche and Parody; Chase in the USSR: "Under Cover" in State-Run Literary Journals; Welcomed in the Peripheries, Rejected in the Capitals; The TV Film Mirazh (1983) and the Boom of "Samizdat" Chase; From Journal to Book: Chase Editions by State Publishers; A Joint Venture Paperback: Chase as Liberal Humanist; Post-Soviet Hardback Editions of Chase's Collected Works
The Monopolization of Chase
A National Classic?
PART I Russian Book Design from the Soviet Period to the Present2 The Soviet Hardback Revolution; The "Paperback Revolution" and Mass Culture in the West...; ...versus "Hardening" of a People's Culture in the USSR; A Test Sample; The 1920s: A "Paper Decade" of "Oblozhki"; The 1930s: Centralization, Standardization, Serialization, and the Hardback; A Hierarchy of Text and Image; World War II: Back to the Paperback; The Post-War Hardback as Mass Product and Monument; The Thaw: Book Art Exhibitions, Dust Jackets, and Unbound Samizdat; 1968: A Soviet "Pocket Book" Dispute
Late Soviet Period: The Standardized Book in CrisisNotes; 3 Perestroika and Post-Soviet Redesign; How to Design "Democratization"?; Early 1990s: From "Knizhnaia Kul'tura" to "Knizhnaia Khaltura"; The Import of Western Computer Technology; The Export of Russian Book Art; The Import of Western Cover Motifs; A State Defense against the Declining Culture of the Book?; Turbulent Fluctuations of Paperbacks and Hardbacks; Notes; 4 Russian Book Design Today; The New Central Function of the Book Cover; Market Segmentation versus Design Hybridization
Serialization and Centralization: The End of Plurality?Internationalization: Copyright, ISBNs, and the Book Spine; The Ambivalent Notion of the Paperback; "Capitalist Realism" and the Return of Monumental Books; Notes; Part II Changing Values in Visual Representation of Literature; 5 The Classic Returns: Anton Chekhov's "Dama s sobachkoi"; Drama or Vaudeville: The Pre-Revolutionary "Dama s sobachkoi"; Chekhov's Works After the Revolution: From Paperback to Hardback; "Dama s sobachkoi" in Soviet Book Illustration; From Perestroika Reinterpretations to...the End of "Dama s sobachkoi"?
Chekhov's Revival, 1999-2010List of Chekhov Editions; Notes; 6 The Western World in a Russian Pocket?; Chase in Britain: Orwell's Totalitarian Nightmare; Continental Chase: Deleuze's Postmodern Master of Pastiche and Parody; Chase in the USSR: "Under Cover" in State-Run Literary Journals; Welcomed in the Peripheries, Rejected in the Capitals; The TV Film Mirazh (1983) and the Boom of "Samizdat" Chase; From Journal to Book: Chase Editions by State Publishers; A Joint Venture Paperback: Chase as Liberal Humanist; Post-Soviet Hardback Editions of Chase's Collected Works
The Monopolization of Chase
A National Classic?