Article
Literature, Slavic
The Lyric/Antilyric Paradigm, Hybridity, and Engaged Poetry in American and Post-Yugoslav Literature
Dubravka Duric
Summary: The central theme of this article is the hybridization in the field of American and post-Yugoslav poetry. The author argues that in the post-World War II American poetry, a strong anti-lyrical paradigm was established, while in post-Yugoslav cultures, elements of experimentation have returned in a hybrid form of poetic procedures. The author discusses four books by Nina Dragicevic, highlighting their constitutive elements in hybrid structures and placing them in the broader context of contemporary trends influenced by the performing arts.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Slovenian Autobiographical Children's Fiction
Barbara Zorman
Summary: The article discusses Slovenian autobiographical children's fiction and its emergence as part of the establishment of the aesthetic autonomy of writers. It analyzes five texts from different time periods and examines themes such as fragmentation, introspection, and the portrayal of the mother figure. The article also highlights the impact of the literary market on contemporary children's fiction.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Lyric Poetry and Anthropological Reduction
Brane Senegacnik
Summary: Due to various forms of anthropological reduction in contemporary culture, lyric poetry becomes harder to understand and increasingly marginalized. It is in an uneasy relationship with the main currents in literary studies, which tend to establish fixed truths and facts about a poem, leaving aside the overall effect and event-essence of lyric poetry. These difficulties arise from the incompatibility between dominant epistemological and cultural paradigms and the direct language of lyric poetry.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Text, Figure, Monogram: The Embodiment of the I in the Essayistic ecriture at Octavio Paz's El mono gramatico
Veit Lindner
Summary: This article analyzes Octavio Paz's El mono gramatico as an example of the essayistic genre in Modernity. The work defies classification and presents ambivalent figures of 'the essayistic', describing the shaping intent of writing. The exploration of self-writing is manifested through the Hindu Monkey God Hanuman, demonstrating a fine balance between a figurative embodiment of the self and a disintegrating analytic discursivity. The essayistic unfolds as an ethos and aesthetics of endeavor, leading to a fractured and incomplete manifestation of the self.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Painting and Ontology: D. H. Lawrence as an Art Historian
Milovan Novakovic
Summary: More than any other twentieth-century writer, D. H. Lawrence developed a profound understanding of painting and evaluated this art form through the prism of his idiosyncratic ontological scheme. In allegiance to his polaristic philosophy, Lawrence conceived the history of visual arts as a mirror of this universal opposition of ultimate metaphysical forces. Despite his general view that Western art was entirely under the dominion of idea, mind, and light, Lawrence pointed to several examples in which dark, bodily, and haptic experiences were processed pictorially. This essay intends to introduce Lawrence as an art historian who understood works of art and art historical periods as constituted out of a never-ending power struggle between the corporeal and the spiritual, and who always sought and called for their reconciliation and balance in his literature.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Parthenogenesis (Virgin Birth): A Woman's Futile Attempt at Achieving Recognition
Irina Rabinovich
Summary: This article examines how Clare Chambers, a contemporary British writer, incorporates feminist ideas from the fourth wave in her novel Small Pleasures (2020) to depict the historical events of 1955-1956, which involve an actual attempt to prove parthenogenesis through scientific methods. The analysis highlights significant social and cultural changes that have occurred in the past six decades in relation to women's reproductive rights and autonomy, body image, and lesbianism. It demonstrates the shift from a conservative and repressive postwar British society that viewed lesbianism and the concept of parthenogenesis as deviating from accepted norms to the contemporary representations that have evolved over time. The article also explores Chambers' portrayal of the perspectives held by members, particularly separatists, within the lesbian community, which encompass both utopian and dystopian ideas. Additionally, it discusses the role of sensational and tabloid journalism in shaping public opinion and influencing social and cultural constructs.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Words of The Unfathomable: Apophatic Poetics of Semyon Frank
Milosav Gudovic
Summary: The poetical ideas of Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank can be understood within the context of his religious thought presented in The Unfathomable. The concept of the unfathomable serves as the foundation of Frank's metaphysics. His interpretation of poetry is influenced by the intuition of a negative, apophatic dimension, which is also expressed in literary works.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Platonism in Slovenian Culture and Literature
Janko Kos
Summary: This article explores the significance and development of Platonism in Slovenian culture, both in philosophical and scientific thought and in poetic and literary creation. Although Platonism has been barely recognizable in philosophy due to the dominance of Aristotelianism and empiricism, it left clear traces in Slovenian poetry and literature. Only after 1990 did Platonism experience a revival in philosophy and catch up with the resurgence in the poetry of younger generations.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Book Review
Literature, Slavic
A Theory of Narrative
Janja Vollmaier Lubej, Alojzija Zupan Sosic
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
The Song of Melancholy / Only Fool! Only Poet!-Nietzsche's Philosophical Poetry
Elisabeth Flucher
Summary: This article analyzes Nietzsche's poem The Song of Melancholy, which outlines a new poetic program that values the commonly devalued terms lie and robbery. The interpretation of the poet's relationship to truth in the poem is controversial. Existing interpretations tend to exclude the poet from pursuing truth, but the poem still references truth in its depiction of a new poetic program. This program integrates philosophical reflection and reevaluates animality and sexuality as conditions of philosophy and poetry.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Poetics and Politics of Samizdat Periodicals. The Case of & nbsp;Transponans
Maksim Lepekhin
Summary: The article explains the role of the transfurist group in Soviet unofficial culture and how they utilized it to address the underground community's current situation. Their positioning and overall aesthetic project were a reaction to being marginalized due to their provincial status. Additionally, transfurists were seen by Moscow and Leningrad poets as inheritors of the Russian avant-garde, which shared similar ideological views with the Soviet state. The article demonstrates how transfurists adopted a conceptualist approach towards the avant-garde legacy and contemporary poetic systems, highlighting the ambiguous position of unofficial culture between abruptly ended traditions and new literary norms and publicity.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
MEMORY AND OBLIVION IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PROSE WRITING (POLINA BARSKOVA, EVGENY VODOLAZKIN, MARIA STEPANOVA)
Danijela Lugaric Vukas
Summary: This article analyzes several contemporary Russian literary texts that explore the relationship between writing, memory, and oblivion. By examining the works of Polina Barskova, Evgeny Vodolazkin, and Maria Stepanova, the article argues that writing is a form of remembrance and that memory emerges through the overcoming of oblivion. The article also highlights the literary value of oblivion as an anthropological category that complements memory.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
THE SINGLE-SHELF LIBRARY: HOW VAGINOV COULD BE READ IN THE 1960S-1980S
Dmitrii Mikhailovich Bresler
Summary: The article explores the late-Soviet history of Konstantin Vaginov's legacy, including attempts to publish his work, inaccessible foreign bilingual publications, special cases of acquaintance with his texts, and reflections initiated by them. The methods of accessing Vaginov's work led to an antiquarian reception of his texts, which were seen more as cultural traces or discourse of cultural communication rather than objects of readers' interpretations. Vaginov's reception case problematizes the process of reading and attitudes towards cultural artifacts, and complicates the idea of media conditions for transmitting unconventional information in the late Soviet period.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
MY DREAMS BECOME MORE AND MORE PAINFUL ... ETHICAL AND AXIOLOGICAL ISSUES IN MIKHAIL BULGAKOV'S DRAMA FLIGHT
Beata Siwek
Summary: This article explores the ethical and axiological issues in Mikhail Bulgakov's drama Flight, which, despite being changed and rewritten numerous times, is often overshadowed by his prose works. Flight is characterized by its combination of various aesthetic conventions, transitions between dramatic tragedy and grotesque comedy, and the use of the oneiric convention to delve into existential dilemmas and the protagonist's search for meaning. The piece presents a challenge for interpretation due to its multitude of religious, literary, historical, social, and political contexts, constantly revealing new senses and meanings with each reading.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
LYRICS OF CYNICAL REASON: THE TRICKSTER AS A LYRICAL SUBJECT
Mark Lipovetsky
Summary: This article discusses the manifestations of the trickster's subjectivity in contemporary Russian poets' works. Drawing connections between the trickster's position in culture and Peter Sloterdijk's discussion on cynicism/kynicism, the article proposes a typology of contemporary lyrical subjects that embody different aspects of the trickster tradition. The article explores the imposter (illustrated by Prigov's poetry), skomorokh (reinvented by Shish Brianskii), the people's poet (as seen in Vsevolod Emelin's poetry), and a reflexive kynic (exemplified by Andrei Rodionov). Finally, the article examines the cultural function of contemporary Russian trickster-like lyrical poetry through practical tactics.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
CONTACTTRACING WAR AND PEACE: A CRITICAL EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
Richard Hughes Gibson, Monica Colon
Summary: The article introduces a new approach to analyzing the social network in Tolstoy's "War and Peace" by focusing on physical proximity rather than proximity of character names. It offers insights into the positions of characters within the novel's social network and how the network evolves throughout the book. The study demonstrates a shift in the social center from tight-knit in the first half to breaking down in the second half.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
Performing Infrastructure: the Cultural Biopolitics of the Russian State in Crimea
Aleksandra Simonova
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
On Tolstoy and Foucault: Intellectuals, Conscience, and the Entanglements of Bio-Power
Vadim Shkolnikov
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
THE RHIZOME IN AND AROUND SAL'NIKOV'S THE PETROVS IN AND AROUND THE FLU
Olga Seliazniova
Summary: In the novel "Petrovy v grippe i vokrug nego" (2016), Aleksei Sal'nikov challenges the common perception of influenza as a dangerous infectious disease by highlighting its potential saving qualities. The novel explores the interconnectedness between the spread of the flu, the characters' relationships, and the structure of the text through the concept of rhizomatic logic proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. This unconventional approach to storytelling has received criticism from critics due to its complexity.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
Article
Literature, Slavic
THE BROWN PLAGUE AND THE WHITE SICKNESS: FASCISM AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY IN KAREL eAPEK'S THE WHITE SICKNESS AND ALBERT CAMUS'S THE PLAGUE
Alfred Thomas
Summary: This essay examines two crucial examples of twentieth-century plague writing through a psychoanalytic and political lens, arguing that psychic repression lies at the heart of both Karel eapek's play The White Sickness, and Albert Camus's novel The Plague. The nature of the calamity in both cases is political rather than biomedical, questioning how fascism could triumph in apparently stable democracies.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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