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Literature, Slavic
READING PATHOLOGIC 2: RUSSIAN LITERATURE AS A TRANS-MEDIAL IDEA
Matthew Kendall
Summary: This article analyzes a recent Russian computer game, Pathologic 2, which simulates an epidemic in a Russian provincial town. The game has been widely referred to as a literary experience, exploring the possibility of digital games connecting with the concept of literariness. By incorporating material from famous texts by Dostoevsky and Blok, the game reduces Russian literature to a trans-media phenomenon, influenced by networked computing and contemporary geopolitics.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
IDEAS THAT PLAGUE US: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT AS A PANDEMIC NARRATIVE
Irina Erman
Summary: This paper argues that "Crime and Punishment" can be read as a plague or pandemic narrative due to the motif of illness running throughout the novel and accompanying key developments and themes. The author examines the imagery of illness and infection in Dostoevsky's work, highlighting how it underscores the danger and infectiousness of the ideas being debunked. The analysis shows how Dostoevsky masterfully combines metaphors of biological and ideological infection to diagnose ongoing ailments.
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On Becoming Princesse Bibesco: The Intimacy of Modern Identity, Between the Self and the World
Carmen Beatrice Dutu, Roxana Patras, Antonio Patras
Summary: This article discusses the reasons and contexts for Martha Bibescu's exclusion from the Romanian national literary canon, and proposes her as a candidate figure for a transnational literary canon, emphasizing her contribution to modernity through shaping a complex intimacy between the Self and the world.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
ILLNESS AS METAPHOR IN ALEXEI SALNIKOV'S THE PETROVS IN THE FLU AND AROUND IT
Nataliya Karageorgos
Summary: This article explores the flu as an organizing motif and metaphor in Alexei Salnikov's novel The Petrovs in the Flu and Around It, discussing how it symbolizes the loss of compassion and free will in the Putin era. It highlights the prevalence of using specific illnesses as metaphors in particular eras, and how contemporary Russian literature invokes the flu to showcase its potential dangers. The author also compares and contrasts this metaphorical use of the flu in Salnikov's novel with Liudmila Petrushevskaya's short story "The Flu", where the illness represents the mixture of the horrible and the mundane.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Samocenzura, druzinske interpretacije in vpliv uradne pripovedi na avtobiografije zensk
Irena Selisnik
Summary: This article compares the autobiographies of Elvira Dolinar, Minka Govekar, and Marica Bartol in the context of the Slovenian autobiographical genre. All three women were active figures in the Slovenian women's movement and had roles as writers, translators, and publicists. The analysis focuses on their interpretations of life stories, thematic elements, narrative style, and self-censorship, with comparisons to family members' and official narratives. It demonstrates the presence and goals of self-censorship in the texts, and explores the different themes subject to self-censorship through different versions of the story.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Burning Erotika and Ivan Cankar's Revolution in Slovenian Poetry
Marijan Dovic
Summary: At the end of the nineteenth century, Slovenian literature was influenced by a group of neo-Romantic poets and writers known as the moderna generation. Ivan Cankar's poetry collection Erotika created controversy, particularly due to the scandalous reception it received and the burning of the book by the bishop. This article discusses the censorship episode and analyzes the specific poems that led to the book's condemnation.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
A Complicit Reading Strategy: Exposing Censored Themes of Intimacy in Swedish Alfhild Agrell's Raddad
Birgitta Lindh Estelle
Summary: This article proposes an ethical reading position by considering the author's socio-historic censorious situation and employing a complicit reading strategy to reveal silenced themes of intimacy. It does so by referring to Alfhild Agrell's play Raddad (Saved) and drawing on theories of censorship, reiteration, and embodied reading.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
CONTAGION AND CONFLAGRATION IN THE RUSSIAN LITERARY AND TRANSMEDIAL IMAGINATION. INTRODUCTION
Julia Vaingurt
Summary: This cluster of articles explores Russian and Eastern European outbreak narratives and metaphors of infection, contributing to a deeper understanding of the cultural politics of contagion in the region.
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Literature, Slavic
CONTAGION AND DISGUST IN IVAN TURGENEV'S FATHERS AND CHILDREN
Giulia Dossi
Summary: This article explores the character of Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Children, challenging the traditional binary oppositions of romanticism/rationalism and nature/science. Bazarov, as an outsider, poses a threat of contagion to the other characters due to his excessive and animalistic life force. Additionally, his grotesque affective system and ambiguous feelings expose the other characters to the risk of affective contamination. The article argues that this pervasive illegibility of character defies the expectations of clarity in psychological prose, presenting it as an unidentified trait of Russian Realism.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
COMRADELY EXCHANGES: ALEKSANDR BOGDANOV'S PHYSIOLOGICAL COLLECTIVISM AND COMMUNITY REIMAGINED
Felix Helbing
Summary: This article examines Soviet theorist Aleksandr Bogdanov's concept of physiological collectivism, which involves mutual blood exchange to erode individual borders and enhance the resilience of the social organism. It also reconceptualizes community as a network of material connections between cells. The article explores the potential of convalescent plasma as a means to establish material community based on physiological collective, considering the increased interest in convalescent plasma during the COVID-19 pandemic.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
MOSCOW METRO AS THE LEVIATHAN: CORPOREAL AND POLITICAL INFECTIONS
Richard Boyechko
Summary: Metro 2033, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky in 2005, tells the story of survivors living in the subway network after a nuclear holocaust. The novel explores the implications of militaristic immune system descriptions and national security imagined in immunological terms. Additionally, it touches upon the central tenet of ecological thought and the interconnectedness of beings.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Double-Censored Freedom? Cultural Memory's Censorship of Intimacy Writing in Moj zivot by Maga Magazinovic
Natalia Panas
Summary: This article analyzes Maga Magazinovic's little-known ego-document Moj zivot (2000) as a first-person narrative that presents intimacy in literature through genres such as diary and confession. The author uses cultural memory to explore Magazinovic's contribution to Serbia's cultural life, her intimate portrayal, and its deliberate exclusion from collective memory due to censorship. Magazinovic's intimate writing defied cultural taboos by describing close relationships, advocating for feminism, and exposing the female private realm against patriarchal and socialist constraints. The article highlights the emancipatory perspective of a woman's body through modern dance and writing, which was regulated by moral/erotic censorship in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and ideological/political censorship in socialist Yugoslavia.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Censorship-the Knot that Binds Intimacy and Women's Writing
Katja Mihurko Poniz, Carmen Beatrice Dutu
Summary: The connection between intimacy and women's writing has long been debated in feminist criticism, and recent studies have examined the social impact of this connection. This article provides an overview of the intertwining of censorship, gender, and intimacy throughout history. It argues that censorship can be seen as a force that binds intimacy and women's writing together, and supports this claim with examples from Western European literature and the experiences of writer Zofka Kveder.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Unspeakable Desire: Norm Breaking Strategies by Swedish Women Authors of the 1880s
Cecilia Annell
Summary: In this article, the author argues that the distinction between virtuous and sinful women was a powerful censoring factor for women authors in the 19th century. This double standard morality required women authors to follow different moral codes and restrict their writing about intimacy and sexuality to gain acceptance and authority. The author examines the strategies employed by two Swedish women authors in the 1880s to deal with censorship and self-censorship. By analyzing their works, the author shows how repeated speech acts can subvert the norm and function as strategies of opposition.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
The Censorship of a Closeted Spain: The Case of Elena Fortun (1886-1952)
Elena Lindholm
Summary: This article explores the impact of self-censorship and state censorship on the literary legacy of children's book author Elena Fortun from Spain. The concept of the homosexual closet is used to understand how censorship influenced Fortun's work as a lesbian writer contributing to various narratives of Spanish femininity over the past century. The analysis includes Fortun's children's books, correspondence, and two posthumously published novels. It reveals how censorship functions as a controlling gaze both from external forces and internalized in individuals, keeping the doors of the homosexual closet closed.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Becoming a (Slovenian) Poet at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Male Censorship of Vida Jeraj's Poetry
Alenka Jensterle Dolezal
Summary: This article examines the gendered censorship faced by Vida Jeraj, a prominent Slovenian female poet, due to the influence of male writers. It highlights the challenges she faced as a woman from a conservative patriarchal society to establish herself as a poet and introduce new poetic styles. The male censorship, particularly from Josip Murn-Aleksandrov and Anton Askerc, greatly impacted her writing and ultimately silenced her voice.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Her Story Is Like a Weed: Censoring the Vulnerability in Women's Writing
Zita Karkla, Eva Eglaja-Kristsone
Summary: The aim of this article is to broaden feminist scholarship on women writers in Latvian literary culture by exploring the relationship between women's writing, intimacy, vulnerability, and censorship. It examines how censorship in the early twentieth century revealed patriarchal attitudes towards women's writing that portrayed intimacy and motherhood as sources of vulnerability. The article focuses on the works of Anna Rumane-Kenina, who used experimental journeys into intimacy to discuss female experiences, family relationships, and situations that bring characters into intimate contact with others.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Who are the Addressees of Shakespeare's Sonnets (in Slovenian)?
Andrej Zavrl
Summary: Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) are traditionally divided into two groups: sonnets 1-126 celebrate a handsome young man, while sonnets 127-154 address a dark lady. However, it is impossible to determine the number of addressees and their genders in the Sonnets. Out of the 139 sonnets with one addressee, 115 have no gender preference (83%), 14 are about a man, and 10 are about a woman. Six sonnets have (at least) two addressees, and the rest are about abstract concepts. Two Slovenian translations by Janez Menart in 1965 and Srecko Fiser in 2005 have been published, both following the traditionally assumed gendering of the sonnets. Fiser maintains neutrality in a slightly larger proportion of the sonnets compared to Menart (44% and 37% respectively).
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
MISE EN ABYME AS VISUAL TROPE, EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE, AND MORE
Olga Matich
Summary: This article discusses the concept of mise en abyme as a narrative technique in visual arts and literature. It focuses on its application in early Russian modernist writing and emphasizes the importance of close reading and understanding of this trope by the reader.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2023)
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Literature, Slavic
APOCALYPTIC PANDEMIC IN YANA VAGNER'S TO THE LAKE
Irina Souch
Summary: The article analyzes Yana Vagner's bestselling novel To the Lake (Epidemiia) and its reflection on contemporary apocalyptic anxieties and fascinations caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses the impact of outbreak narratives on the understanding of epidemics in various fields and highlights the mutual reinforcement between the cultural imagination of contagion and the medical and political interpretations of a real pandemic.
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