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Article: Text Counter Text: Rereadings in Russian Literary History.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 1999
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Text Counter Text: Rereadings in Russian Literary History. By ALEXANDER ZHOLKOVSKY. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1994. xi + 370 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling].
'The desire that animates much of today's critical practice suggests a hostile arrogance toward literature and a narcissistic obsession with theory and the figure of the critic' (p. 7). Alexander Zholkovsky's account of Russian literature's obsessive intertextuality is free of the first of these vices to a mercifully greater extent than it is prone to the second. From the early avowal of his shift 'from hard-core generativism to a moderate version of poststructuralism' (p. v), through close readings ...