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Reference:
Sidorova, G. P.
Communist Morality in the Texts of Everyday Life
of a Soviet Detective Story at the 1960–1980th
// Culture and Art.
2011. № 3.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=58270
Sidorova, G. P. Communist Morality in the Texts of Everyday Life
of a Soviet Detective Story at the 1960–1980th
Abstract:
As a part of the Soviet mass culture and society,
literature was aimed at forming values of communist morality including simplicity and modesty of personal and everyday
life. Mass literature formed these values through positive and
negative, direct and indirect assessments of heroes and their
actions. In modern cultural studies the items of everyday life
are included in a broad understanding of a text. Certain items
of everyday life and heroes’ attitudes to these items display
an indirect assessment of heroes. Special attention to details
of everyday life which is typical for the most popular genre
– detective story – as well as the tendency of mass literature
towards ‘the truth of life’ in the middle of the 1950th makes this
genre to be an interesting source of cultural studies. The goal
of the article is to trace back how the Soviet detective story of
the 1960-1980th used texts of everyday life (clothes, footwear,
jewelry) for forming the communist morality.
Keywords:
cultural studies, communist morality, literature for general readers, detective story, text, everyday life, meaning, oppositions.
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