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SUMMARY:Sternean Entanglements: Laurence Sterne and Early Soviet Culture
LOCATION:Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall (VPD) 106\, 635 Downey Way\, Los A
 ngeles\, CA 90089
DESCRIPTION:Laurence Sterne\, the author of Tristram Shandy (1759-61) and 
 A Sentimental Journey (1768)\, was an unlikely object of sustained intere
 st in Soviet Russia. Nevertheless\, his writings found avid readers and a
 dmirers throughout the 1920s and 1930s\, across a period of profound chan
 ges in literary institutions and intellectual life. Sterne could be claim
 ed in the 1920s as an experimental writer and “revolutionary of form”\; b
 y the 1930s\, when such claims had become increasingly difficult to susta
 in\, interest in his work intensified rather than disappeared\, while the
  terms on which he was read changed. This lecture follows the histories o
 f particular books and readers\, moving between well-known intellectuals 
 and figures largely absent from literary history. Sterne’s Soviet afterli
 ves offer a way of considering reading as a practice of self-fashioning a
 nd of asking how such practices contributed to forms of intellectual auto
 nomy after the Revolution.\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department o
 f Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Levan Institute for the Humani
 ties.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/56a920b2-fbf7-4840-9f44-97e64b01241d
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/56a920b2-fbf7-4840-9f44-97e64b01241d
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