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Literature, Slavic
Elena Mihajlovna Filippova
Summary: The article explores the main sources that contribute to the allegorical image of the wolf-nihilist Mark Volokhov in I. A. Goncharov's novel The Precipice. By referencing the correspondence between L. N. Maykov and his university comrades, it is suggested that, besides mythopoetic, literary-philosophical, and typological reasons, Mark can be associated with a predator due to certain biographical factors.
RUSSKAIA LITERATURA
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
M. A. Frolov
Summary: This publication explores the career of a literary historian and textual critic who was a professor at a prestigious academic institution. It presents unpublished texts of his reports and feedback from colleagues during debates, based on data from archival sources. The texts and documents showcase the scholar's diverse involvement in the institution and the thematic breadth of his work.
RUSSKAIA LITERATURA
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Margarita Mikhailovna Pavlova
Summary: This publication presents a collection of letters from the Merezhkovsky archive in the Center of Russian Culture in Amherst (USA). The letters, written by V. P. Sventsitsky, one of the founders and ideologists of the Christian Brotherhood of Struggle (1905-1908), provide insights into the personal relationships among the correspondents who held different positions in the religious and social movement of 1905-1908.
RUSSKAIA LITERATURA
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Elena Iosifovna Pogorel'skaia
Summary: The article examines the significance of I. Babel's stories "My First Fee" and "The Reference," both of which remained unpublished during the author's lifetime. It is revealed that "The Reference" was written after "My First Fee," as evidenced by the dating of the texts. The earliest version of "The Reference," titled "My First Fee," is included as an appendix in this article and introduced into academic discourse.
RUSSKAIA LITERATURA
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Marek Mosakowski
Summary: This article examines the sociopolitical conditions behind the control of operatic works during the French Revolution in France. The author studies the development of censorship during different stages of the Revolution and evaluates its impact on the monarchy and cultural heritage of the Ancien Regime. The article also considers the institutional and legislative framework in France between 1789 and 1794. It discusses three operas to demonstrate the different approaches used by revolutionary regimes to discipline politically inconvenient works based on their ideological inclination.
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Literature, Slavic
Marta Baron-Milian
Summary: This article challenges the traditional interpretation of the F24 formula as the title of the Almanac of New Art in 1924, by suggesting its earlier appearance in the lost manifestos of Jerzy Jankowski. It presents the findings of research on Polish Futurism based on archival materials and the memoirs of Jankowski's sister, shedding new light on the nature of the lost manifestos and the proclamations made by Jankowski at the Futurist club. As a result, F24 can be understood as a surprising and encompassing formula of (Polish) Futurism.
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Literature, Slavic
Pavel Pilch
Summary: Many comics scholars emphasize the importance of frames on comic pages, recognizing that the formal elements of frame structure, including frames and gutters, provide important clues for the meaning of comic expression. This article focuses on the metanarrative function of frames and gutters, where authors add their own narrative function to shape their attitude towards the comic or offer new interpretation possibilities to readers. Using Czech comics author Kaja Saudek as a case study, the author demonstrates how a comic book can demand and satisfy a careful reader by analyzing Saudek's authorial interventions at the frame, sequence, and page levels, ultimately providing readers with more than meets the eye (quite literally!).
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Literature, Slavic
Mirela Ramljak Purgar
Summary: In this article, a specific iconology of the (post)human based on the motif of a tree is proposed. The typological determinant is questioned through various media and epochs, emphasizing the contextualization in specific images and the interdisciplinary connection of cultural paradigms. The hypothesis is made that paradigms from romanticism to Blade Runner 2049 share the principles of imagination, alienation, and striking visuality. A range of works, including film, painting, drawing, and theater, are analyzed to explore the aspects of space, authenticity, and the dynamics of cultural paradigms.
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Literature, Slavic
Oksana Levytska, Nataliia Mocherniuk
Summary: This paper examines the representation of artist's workshops as a specific space and subject in literary works. Through the analysis of Ukrainian fiction, memoirs, and testimony from the 19th and 20th centuries, the interplay of different arts in the creative space of an artist is studied, along with the functionality of art workshops in different cultural and historical periods. The article distinguishes between the presentation characteristics of artists and writers in describing artist's workshops, with a focus on intermedial references typical in such descriptions. It also explores how descriptions of art accentuated spaces problematize the aesthetic and creative issues connected to the existential experience and intentions of artists.
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Literature, Slavic
Tim Jackson
Summary: [Post Growth: Life after Capitalism] is an invitation to imagine our current economic paradigm as a temporary and fading remnant of old ways of life, rather than the unchangeable truth it claims to be. It encourages us to learn from history and reflect honestly on our current situation. Its deeper purpose is to redirect our perspective away from the polluted field of traditional economics and towards a new vision of human progress.
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Literature, Slavic
Grzegorz Niziolek
Summary: The article redefines fundamental concepts such as emancipation, representation, and censorship by examining their tensions in emancipatory movements, especially in post-critical discourses and queer theories. It also explores the contemporary operationality of the censorship definition within the context of Freudian psychoanalysis.
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Literature, Slavic
Jaroslaw Pluciennik, Paulina Sikora-Krizhevska
Summary: The article explores the presence of retrotopia and postmemory in modern Russian culture, discussing their impact on Russia's perception of itself and its place in the world. Retrotopia fuels the Russian dream of greatness and the myth of the Empire, while postmemory helps authors come to terms with Russia's difficult past. Both hinder Russia's ability to find its place in the modern world and contribute to the renewal of cultural traumas.
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Literature, Slavic
Elzbieta Rybicka
Summary: This article reconstructs the understanding of a modern landscape that has been significantly altered by the mining industry. Drawing inspiration from non-representational theories, the author emphasizes embodied experience, senses, and affects as important factors in the perception of landscape beyond visual representation. By analyzing documentaries, photographs, and reportages, the author highlights the complexity and multidirectionality of landscape transformation processes in the Anthropocene, particularly the interdependencies between geology and atmosphere, exploitation and its material effects and affects. These findings reveal the non-obvious ontology of the post-transformed landscape, which is simultaneously post-natural and post-human.
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Literature, Slavic
Joanna Szewczyk
Summary: The article examines narratives written during the early months of 2020, classified as pandemygraphy, which includes essayistic projects and pandemic autobiographical literature. The analysis explores strategies of narrativizing the pandemic, focusing on its experiential, affective, and symbolic dimensions. Drawing from diverse stories and diaries, the article analyzes the survival strategies and autotherapeutic dimension depicted in the narratives. The author reflects on the collective memory mechanisms that resist the pandemic experience.
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Literature, Slavic
Teodora Vukovic, Mirjana Miric, Anastasia Escher, Svetlana Cirkovic, Maja Milicevic Petrovic, Andrey N. Sobolev, Barbara Sonnenhauser
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SLAVISCHE PHILOLOGIE
(2023)
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Literature, Slavic
Daria V. Konior, Andrey N. Sobolev, Svetlana Cirkovic, Mirjana Miric
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SLAVISCHE PHILOLOGIE
(2023)
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Literary Theory & Criticism
Nikolai Plotnikov
Summary: This article examines the discussions about justice in philosophy and social sciences after the perestroika era in the Soviet Union. It reveals that the concept of justice was not part of the Soviet ideological vocabulary and was absent in the lexicon of the social sciences. However, during the perestroika era, justice became a key concept in the government's official rhetoric and a slogan of protest against the system. Post-Soviet social theory, on the other hand, showed limited interest in the problem of justice, focusing primarily on the clash between liberalism and socialism. Only in recent years, with the emergence of new protest movements in Russia, has there been a significant increase in theoretical interest in the problem of justice, indicating the formation of a new paradigm in social theory.
NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE
(2022)
Article
Literary Theory & Criticism
Sergeya Tashkenova
NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE
(2022)
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Literary Theory & Criticism
Elena Trubina
Summary: This passage discusses the development and value of urban knowledge, especially in the fields of education and research. The author mentions the evolution of Russian urban studies and the attempts to combine humanities and social sciences. Additionally, the author explores the importance of applied knowledge to educators, grant seekers, and students, as well as the conflicts that arise from this type of knowledge.
NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE
(2022)
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Literary Theory & Criticism
Ekaterina Boltunova
Summary: This article examines the current state of research on the history of Russia's regions, analyzing academic literature in English and Russian published in the last two decades. It highlights trends in this field, such as the correlation between a region and its ethnic and religious makeup, and the limited use of comparisons. The article provides an overview of the literature on Central Russia and concludes that it has not been studied as a macroregion. The author also discusses the need to develop search engines that can process large databases and automated systems for navigating handwritten texts in Russian archives.
NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE
(2022)
