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Neven Jovanovic
Summary: The Odyssey 'Round the World was a collaborative public reading of Homer's pandemic, featuring performances from participants around the world. The event exemplified diversity and connected with current debates on Classics as an academic discipline and the diachronic development of Homeric poems. It also showcased the advantages and limitations of technology, highlighting the disparity between ancient Greek performances of Homeric poems and our usual approach to reading them.
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Erika Primc
Summary: This article discusses the poetry of medieval Jewish poet Judah Halevi and contemporary Slovenian poet Gorazd Kocijancic, showing how the key moment of addressing the Other in religious poetry is reflected in the poem itself. Despite the differences in history, culture, and religion between the two poets, their descriptions of religious experiences are similar.
PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST
(2022)
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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)
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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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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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Maksim Hanukai
Summary: This article traces the development of Russian actionism through a biopolitical lens, exploring how it has evolved from a public enactment of post-Soviet society's regression to a more consciously biopolitical resistance against Vladimir Putin's rule. The author analyzes the actions and statements of Voina, Pussy Riot, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Katrin Nenasheva, identifying four main tactics of resistance that have shifted actionism towards practices of radical care. The article also briefly touches on actions performed after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
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.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Alexander Zhitenev
Summary: This article discusses the strict regulation of male bodies in the Russian context under state intervention, as well as the emergence of resistance to power and non-normative models of masculinity in contemporary Russian poetry.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Ondrej Vimr, Cezary Rosinski
Summary: This paper investigates the Czech contribution to world literature over the past two centuries, using computational methods and data from the National Library to deliver three case studies. The results demonstrate the potential of computationally analyzing Czech literature in translation, and reveal dynamics of gender representation, target language trends, and global diversity in terms of clustering authors according to their target language profiles.
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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
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
Aleksandra Simonova
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Marina V. Zavarkina
Summary: The article examines the publishing business and book trade of F.M. and A.G. Dostoevsky, providing insights into the publishing process of the 19th century as well as Dostoevsky's involvement in proofreading and book distribution.
NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Olga Trukhanova
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2022)
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Literature, Slavic
Aleksey Yudin
Summary: This thematic cluster of articles examines contemporary incantation texts from pseudo-healers or neo-pagans, whether they are literary, parodied, or falsified. It also explores the influence of mythology and traditional verbal magic on poetic texts, including an analysis of the restoration of poetry's original mythological-magical meanings. The article examines the functioning of traditional folklore magic and the differences between incantations and folk prayers, applying a performativity theory to folklore magic and extending it to literary magic texts.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2022)
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Literature, Slavic
Aleksey Korovashko
Summary: This article systematically analyses parodies of East Slavic incantations and charms. Previously, these texts were of sporadic interest to folklore researchers. The lack of study into incantations and charms and the influence of official Soviet folkloristics contributed to them being rarely regarded as parodies of real-life verbal magic. The article provides an overview of the characteristics of incantation parodies in oral folklore, and further examines fictional works and internet folklore containing parodic incantations. This research contributes to a better understanding of East Slavic incantations and charms.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2022)
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Literature, Slavic
Wawrzyniec Popiel-Machnicki, Bartosz Osiewicz, Aliaksandr Raspapou
Summary: Alexander Gorodnitsky, Dmitry Bykov, and Dmitry Danilov are among the first modern Russian poets to problematize and transfer the previously unknown disease, COVID-19, into an aesthetic space. Their works depict the motif of human confrontation with the disease using metaphors related to war, revolution, and other aesthetic themes. Drawing inspiration from Russian literary tradition, especially the works of Pushkin, Nekrasov, and Blok, their lyrical compositions can be seen as a prelude to the further exploration of the topic of the Coronavirus pandemic.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2022)
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Literature, Slavic
Janne Risum
Summary: In this article, the author examines Meyerhold's occasional casting of actresses for male parts in his career as a stage director. Meyerhold cast a woman for a male part six times, with the majority being in tragedies. These instances were done for different purposes and to suit different contexts, serving as artistic reactions to the different political systems that Meyerhold experienced and reflecting his preference for tragedy as a means of expressing social mechanisms of oppression or resistance.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Jana Vrajova
Summary: This study provides a revised classification of the movements in Tereza Novakova's work, focusing on her novel "Children of Pure Living Spirit". It refers to the literary-historical and period meta-narrative, highlighting the presence of the ideal in Novakova's work, which was overlooked in the historical context, leading to her categorization under documentary realism. By examining the recent literary-history debates on ideal realism and analyzing the reception at that time, the study demonstrates the stylization techniques Novakova employed to construct a text related to the idea of nation-building based on culturally accepted paradigms.
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Literature, Slavic
Ondřej Koupil
