Literature, Slavic

Article Literature, Slavic

Terminological Thesaurus of the Gospel Text by F. M. Dostoevsky

Valentina V. Borisova, Sergey S. Shaulov

Summary: This article discusses the problem of terminological description of Dostoevsky's gospel text, emphasizing the use of a thesaurus to analyze and interpret the key concepts in the text. The study shows a trend towards the joint use of poetological, theological and philosophical categories.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Calligraphic Elements in Dostoevsky's Handwriting as a Textological Problem

Boris N. Tikhomirov

Summary: This article examines the identification of a manuscript with calligraphic elements and concludes that it is a fair copy. Handwriting analysis also reveals Dostoevsky's psychological state while working on the manuscript.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

The Fight with Gradovsky: Causes and Consequences

Vladimir A. Viktorovich

Summary: The speech and response between lawyer and publicist A. D. Gradovsky and F. M. Dostoevsky in 1880 on the topic of the relationship between the people and the intelligentsia is a significant part of Russian thought. Their divergence stemmed from their different views on the role of the intelligentsia and the people in the country's history and future. Gradovsky saw the intelligentsia as educators while viewing the people as passive, while Dostoevsky emphasized the active nature of popular ideals and called for understanding and listening to the people.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Biopolitical Contribution of the French Late Seventeenth-Century Fairy Tales to the Formation of Disciplinary Society

Polona Tratnik

Summary: The article discusses the formation of a disciplinary society in the aristocratic culture of 17th century French storytellers, with a focus on the role of fairy tales. It explores the biopolitical aspects of fairy tales and their representation of gender roles and relationships, using the tale of Cinderella as a case study. The article also highlights the global relevance of Perrault and Disney's versions of Cinderella.

PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF UKRAINIAN IAMBS IN COMPARISON WITH RUSSIAN VERSE

Evgeny Kazartsev, Arina Davydova

Summary: This article examines the emergence and development of iambic tetrameter in Ukrainian poetry. It finds that Ukrainian iambic tetrameter has a unique rhythmic structure, with a certain dependence on Russian models. The Ukrainian iambic tetrameter represents a new evolutionary stage of European metrical versification.

RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

A search for absolute poetry (from pure poetry to non-poetry: Bremond, Hlbina, Silan, and Groch)

Jan Gavura

Summary: In the early 1930s, a group of young Catholic poets in Slovakia introduced a new approach to poetry creation inspired by mysticism. Despite being influenced by Henri Bremond's aesthetic instructions for absolute poetry, the poets found it challenging to achieve the paradoxical blend of mysticism and poetry, particularly when integrating with avant-garde poeticism and surrealism.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

When the Unknown Becomes Known: Textual Criticism, Biography, Criticism (Review of Books Published by the RFBR Competition Sources and Methods in the Study of the Legacy of F. M. Dostoevsky in Russian and World Culture)

O. Yu Yurieva

Summary: The Russian Academy of Sciences presents a series of books on the study of F.M. Dostoevsky's legacy in Russian and world culture. These books address various topics and problems raised by researchers, using new archival documents and sources to contribute to the study of Dostoevsky's biography and creative work.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Autographs in Italian: Anna Dostoevskaya's Collection

I. S. Andrianova, S. Aloe

Summary: This article examines the collecting activities of F. M. Dostoevsky's wife, who was one of the first female collectors in Russia. It focuses on her collection of autographs, particularly in Italian, based on archival sources. The motivation and support for her collecting were provided by her husband, and the suppliers were his correspondents and acquaintances. The article introduces unique letters in Italian from her collection into scientific circulation for the first time, providing their translation into Russian.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2022)

Article Literary Theory & Criticism

Backstage Improvisation: Social Cooperation, Circumvention of the Rules, and Processes of Cultural Production in the Late USSR Article One

Ilya Kukulin, Maria Maiofis, Maria Chetverikova

Summary: This study examines the significance of the backstage in the late-Soviet literary publishing process, which refers to special communicative episodes where participants discuss the norms of the literary community and the possibility of circumventing these norms. Despite its key role in late-Soviet literary life, many informants today struggle to remember much about the backstage.

NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE (2022)

Review Literature, Slavic

Love in Numbers: Sladkovic's Marina from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics

Miroslav Zumrik

Summary: This essay reviews the monograph Love in Numbers: Sladkovic's Marina from the perspective of quantitative linguistics and highlights the importance of using mathematical tools in literary research. The authors of the monograph successfully integrate statistical methods with philosophy of technology, contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of literary studies.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

JOKER AS THE SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE. VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY, RUSSOPHONE ENTERTAINMENT AND THE PERFORMATIVE TURN IN WORLD POLITICS

Konstantin Kaminskij

Summary: This paper analyzes Ukrainian President Zelensky's election campaign in relation to Russia's information warfare, the global rise of populism, and Ukrainian identity politics. By examining Zelensky's successful career in the Russophone entertainment business, it explores his campaign strategies and storytelling techniques. The paper also discusses the connection between populism and Russophone pop culture.

RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Late 18th and Early 19th Century Occasional Poetry From the Perspective of Contemporary Editorial Strategies

Lenka Riskova

Summary: This article discusses the necessity of making older Slovak literary works accessible to contemporary audiences, addresses textological problems, and proposes an adequate evaluation method. Using a monograph as an example, the authors describe textological approaches and inspire further research on the editorial handling of this type of texts.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Ad fontes (Revision of a biographical entry)

Jana Piroscakova

Summary: The article assesses the reception of the life and work of Amalia Sirotkova, the first known Slovak woman collector of fairy tales. The author points out discrepancies between published information and available source materials, and urges the use of primary sources to avoid drawing nonfactual conclusions. The article revises the facts provided in previous references to create a more accurate literary-historical portrait of Amalia Sirotkova.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

Andrej Sladkovi? a Memorandum naroda slovenskeho Daniela Kodajova

Daniela Kodajova

Summary: Andrej Sladkovic (1820-1872) was a priest and poet who also wrote reports from cultural and political events and provided feedback to others' works. He played a significant role in the publication of the minutes and diary from the Slovak national assembly in 1861. His goals were to provide information, preserve the memory of the events, and reflect on the activities of the Slovak intelligentsia. The article discusses Sladkovic's contribution to the preparation of the materials for publication and capturing the atmosphere of the document's writing process.

SLOVENSKA LITERATURA (2023)

Article Literature, Slavic

Literature as Testimony: The Poetics of Memory in Poetry

Blerina Rogova Gaxha

Summary: This article explores the representation, transmission, and circulation of war memory, as well as the role of personal and collective memory in shaping meanings, attitudes, and identities. Through the works of poets Xhevdet Bajraj and Ivana Bodrozic, the intersection of war memory and the concept of trauma is examined, with a focus on the concept of poetry as testimony and its relevance to contemporary literature. The article begins with a theoretical introduction, followed by the poets' works, and concludes with a theoretical offshoot on the topic.

PRIMERJALNA KNJIZEVNOST (2022)

Article Literary Theory & Criticism

Reading Stalinism: Stalinist Culture as a Field of Research

Evgeny Dobrenko

Summary: This article analyzes the rapid changes in the research field of Stalinist culture since the early 1990s. It highlights factors such as generational shifts among researchers, interdisciplinary and methodological changes, democratization, the opening of archives, and changes in the academic economy that have influenced the formation of this research field. However, it also reveals gaps in the study of Stalinism and the need for new methodological and institutional changes, as seen in Western and Russian historiography.

NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

Dostoevsky and Pisemsky: The Calligraphic Inscription Nevedomov in the Draft Notes for the Novel Demons

Natalia A. Tarasova

Summary: The article analyzes the calligraphic inscription Nevedomov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Demons and explores the influence of Alexey Pisemsky's work on Dostoevsky's creative process. It compares the motifs and figurative structure of both novels to discuss the artistic narrative and the perception of Pisemsky's novel during the period of Dostoevsky's work on Demons.

NEIZVESTNYI DOSTOEVSKII-THE UNKNOWN DOSTOEVSKY (2022)

Article Literary Theory & Criticism

From Self-Criticism to Self-Destruction: The Reorganization of the Canon of Soviet Aesthetics During the Period of Late Stalinism

Dmitry Tsyganov

Summary: Based on a wide range of historical and literary materials, this article traces the formation of self-criticism as a category of artistic thinking and its influence on the creation of socialist-realist texts in the Soviet literary canon. Another significant aspect of the research is the identification and examination of the role the self-criticism method played in dismantling the aesthetic norms of Late-Stalinism.

NOVOE LITERATURNOE OBOZRENIE (2022)

Article Literature, Slavic

HOW THE WRITER R. LEFT THE CITY OF Z FOR THE COUNTRY U, AND ALONG THE WAY HE DIED AND WROTE A NOVEL: UKRAINIAN RUSSOPHONIA THROUGH THE LENS OF VLADIMIR RAFEENKO'S LITERARY EXPERIENCE

Marco Puleri

Summary: The aim of this paper is to examine the changes in the position and self-identification of Russophone writers in the Ukrainian literary context over the past two decades (2000-2019). The focus of the study is on Vladimir Rafeenko's literary experience in independent Ukraine and the evolution of Russophone cultural paradigm and its reception in the national scene.

RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2022)

Editorial Material Literature, Slavic

EDITORIAL

Ellen Rutten

RUSSIAN LITERATURE (2022)