TY - CHAP

T1 - Western monsters-Soviet pets?

T2 - Translation and transculturalism in Soviet children's literature

AU - Viugin, Valerii

PY - 2017/7/28

Y1 - 2017/7/28

N2 - My concern with a specific discourse from the history of Soviet art for children, on which this contribution focuses, has been stimulated by a broader interest in anthropophagy, or cannibalism, as a topos and in cannibalistic discourses in twentieth-century Russian culture as a whole. On the one hand, my chapter can be considered as a kind of extended commentary on a line from Samuil Marshak’s later poem Robin-Bobin (1955), which was, in fact, a translation of a rhyme from the famous Mother Goose collection. On the other hand, I also examine here a specific quality of children’s literature and cinema that manifests itself in peculiar representations of evil, cruelty, and violence and, as a result, in unique appropriations of the emotion of fear.

AB - My concern with a specific discourse from the history of Soviet art for children, on which this contribution focuses, has been stimulated by a broader interest in anthropophagy, or cannibalism, as a topos and in cannibalistic discourses in twentieth-century Russian culture as a whole. On the one hand, my chapter can be considered as a kind of extended commentary on a line from Samuil Marshak’s later poem Robin-Bobin (1955), which was, in fact, a translation of a rhyme from the famous Mother Goose collection. On the other hand, I also examine here a specific quality of children’s literature and cinema that manifests itself in peculiar representations of evil, cruelty, and violence and, as a result, in unique appropriations of the emotion of fear.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040598855&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781315305356

DO - 10.4324/9781315305356

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85040598855

SN - 9781138235120

SP - 188

EP - 204

BT - Translation in Russian Contexts

PB - Taylor & Francis

ER -