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“The Truth Had Been Twisted and Contorted”: Toward a Pragmatics of F. M. Dostoevsky’s The Landlady Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Igor Kravchuk
ABSTRACT This article examines the poetics of Dostoevsky’s novella The Landlady (1847) from a pragmatic perspective, approaching it as a literary utterance that manifests a new depictive technique and defends the autonomy of the professional writer within the emerging Russian literary industry. The story’s eventive incoherence, which critics and scholars have seen as a failed literary experiment, is
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The Politics of Polyphony: Dangerous Modernity and the Structure of the Novel in Dostoevsky and Bakhtin Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Anatoly Korchinsky
ABSTRACT This article offers the hypothesis that, from the standpoint of the “sociological poetics” of the 1920s and contemporary literary epistemology, the structure of the polyphonic novel that Dostoevsky created and Bakhtin conceptualized (firstly in his 1929 book Problems of Dostoevsky’s Art [Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo]) enables a reconstruing of the principles governing the writer’s social
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Jakobson’s Hypothesis, Gleb / Ivanovich, and Perversion: G. Uspenskii’s Madness and His Short Story “Straightened” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Pavel Uspenskij
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the discourse of G. Uspenskii’s mental illness. Drawing on R. Jakobson’s hypothesis that the writer’s insanity was associated with his tendency toward metonymy, I analyze Uspenskii’s hallucinations and delusional ideas. The dissociative identity disorder observed during his illness is explained in terms of the effect of a metonymic cognitive pattern that split the writer’s
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Krylov and Many Others: The Genesis and Meaning of Russia’s First Literary Jubilee Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Ekaterina Lyamina, Natalia Samover
ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the 1838 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of I.A. Krylov’s literary career, an event that has been seen as representing a crystallization of Russia’s literary community’s sense of self and a point at which the state began to appreciate its importance.
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Correction Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-06-28
Published in Russian Studies in Literature (Vol. 56, No. 3-4, 2020)
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Another Mandelstam Celebration Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Sibelan Forrester
(2020). Another Mandelstam Celebration. Russian Studies in Literature: Vol. 56, No. 1-2, pp. 1-2.
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‘It’s Time You Knew: I Too Am a Contemporary…’ Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Mikhail Aizenberg
ABSTRACT This publication offers four presentations from a roundtable on the poet Osip Mandelstam. Mikhail Aizenberg opens with a consideration of Mandelstam’s contemporary relevance to poets as well as scholars and readers, as his writings are a vital component of the ongoing life of Russian poetry. Vladimir Aristov points out the ties between Mandelstam and many other poets before comparing his “Lines
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The Poet and the Empire Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Evgenii Abdullaev
ABSTRACT In this second group of texts from the Znamia roundtables celebrating the 125th anniversary of Osip Mandelstam’s birth, four more poets discuss questions that lead them to compare Mandelstam to other poets: Pushkin (Evgenii Abdullaev on the poet’s relationship to empire); natural science (Grigorii Kruzhkov eliciting important features from Mandelstam’s poem “Lamarck” by referring to Robert
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A Self-Portrait, the Pitcher, and Rembrandt the Martyr Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Irina Surat
ABSTRACT This article discusses three of Osip Mandelstam’s poems that refer to works of art: “A hint of wing in the lifted” (sometimes called “Self-Portrait”), “Delinquent debtor to a long thirst” (or “The Pitcher), and “Like chiaroscuro’s martyr Rembrandt.” Irina Surat outlines the context of each poem, as well as the art works each refers to, and with reference to other scholars and memoirists places
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Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Unknown Mandelstam’ Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Leonid Katsis
ABSTRACT This article explores a section of the transcript of Joseph Brodsky’s presentation at the 1991 conference on the centenary of Osip Mandelstam in London. It analyzes Brodsky’s position opposing the established view that Mandelstam’s ‘Ode’ to Stalin was an ‘illness.’ It analyzes and comments on Brodsky’s oral statements on the subject, made during the opponents’ presentations at the conference
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Women Writers and Girl Heroes Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Sibelan Forrester
(2019). Introduction to the Special Issue on Women Writers and Girl Heroes. Russian Studies in Literature: Vol. 55, Women Writers and Girl Characters in Russian Children’s Reading, pp. 139-139.
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The Woman Question in Russian Children’s Literature Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Olga Bukhina
(2019). The Woman Question in Russian Children’s Literature. Russian Studies in Literature: Vol. 55, Women Writers and Girl Characters in Russian Children’s Reading, pp. 140-146.
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At the Cradle of Feminism in Children’s Literature (Arguments and Resentments) Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Marina Kostiukhina
ABSTRACT This article examines Russian feminist thought in publications for girls from the second half of the nineteenth century and the polemic that the female publisher of the girls’ magazines Little Star [Zvezdochka] (1842–1863) and Rays of Light [Luchi] (1850–1863), A.O. Ishimova, engaged in with radical feminists. The debate between Ishimova and the editors of the girls’ magazine Dawn [Rassvet]
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Aleksandra Annenskaia, Mariia Pozharova, and Lidiia Charskaia Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Evgeniia Putilova
ABSTRACT Evgeniia Putilova’s archival-biographical research into the history of children’s literature represents a unique contribution to that field. This article, slightly abridged in translation, brings together three entries she wrote for the encyclopedia Literary St. Petersburg: The Twentieth Century [Literaturnyi Sankt-Peterburg: XX vek]: on Aleksandra Annenskaia, Mariia Pozharova, and Lidiia
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The Works of Lidiia Charskaia in the Eyes of Contemporary Critics Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Valentin Golovin
ABSTRACT Relying on a wide range of literary history sources covering the first third of the twentieth century, especially publications in pedagogical and literary periodicals, this article examines the reception Russian critics gave to one of the most popular female Russian children’s writers, Lidiia Charskaia. Attitudes of prerevolutionary and Soviet critics toward Charskaia’s works are compared
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“Warming Your Soul with Your Own Hands”: Ruvim Fraerman’s Children’s Prose and the Legacy of Russian Modernism Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Maria Maiofis
ABSTRACT In her article, Maria Maiofis argues that Ruvim Fraerman’s 1939 work Wild Dog Dingo, Or a Story of First Love [Dikaia sobaka Dingo, ili Povest’ o pervoi liubvi] is not primarily intended as a story of adolescent love but rather of the vicissitudes of a teenaged girl’s relationship with her divorced parents. Fraerman’s treatment of adolescent psychology and the difficult path into adulthood
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Aleksandra Brushtein’s Trilogy The Road Goes into the Distance: History, Intention, Realization Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Maria Gelfond
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between actual historical events and the way they are interpreted in Aleksandra Brushtein’s autobiographical trilogy The Road Goes into the Distance [Doroga ukhodit v dal’], as well as the ‘shift of intention’ the trilogy represents from the diary entries of twelve-year-old Sasha Vygodskaia to her finalized text. This analysis is based on materials from
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“My Friend, Ol’ga”: On Rereading V. Kiselev’s Novel The Girl and the Bird Plane Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Irina Savkina
ABSTRACT This article examines Vladimir Kiselev’s young-adult novel, The Girl and the Bird Plane [Devochka i ptitselet], written in 1966, toward the end of the Thaw. While critics in the late 1960s and the screenwriters for the novel’s film version (The Transitional Age [Perekhodnyi vozrast], 1968, directed by Richard Viktorov) interpreted the work as centering on the complex relationships existing
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Feminism in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature, or How to Translate the Word Avtorka into English* Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Ekaterina Asonova, Olga Bukhina
ABSTRACT This article is devoted to contemporary children’s literature and the role played in it by women writers, publishers, translators, illustrators, researchers, educators, and librarians. Asonova and Bukhina emphasize the role of the maternal principle both in women’s writing and in the development of the contemporary publishing process and explore the feminist aspects of the many fraught issues
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The Intertext of Dark Avenues: How the Novella Dissolved in the Later Works of Ivan Bunin Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Evgenii Ponomarev
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The Problem of Access to a Writer’s Philosophy and Theology: The Unavoidability of Philology. Apollon and the Mouse in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Tat’iana Kasatkina
The Problem of Access to a Writer’s Philosophy and Theology: The Unavoidability of Philology. Apollon and the Mouse in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground Tat’iana Kasatkina To cite this article: Tat’iana Kasatkina (2019) The Problem of Access to a Writer’s Philosophy and Theology: The Unavoidability of Philology. Apollon and the Mouse in F.M. Dostoevsky’s Notesfrom Underground , Russian Studies
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At a Poem’s Distance (The Poetry of Aleksandr Kushner) Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Andrei Ar’ev
In this longer version of the article originally identified for publication, Andrei Ar’ev discusses the biography, creative philosophy, and poetry of Aleksandr Kushner, one of the most prominent and important living Russian poets. Ar’ev puts Kushner’s work in the context of other poets, especially those of the same generation (born around 1940, including Joseph Brodsky) but finds that he is sui generis
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Writers on Writers, Part II: Living and Recent Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Sibelan Forrester
This second part of the special issue of Russian Studies in Literature continues the topic of “Writers on Writers.” Some of the authors presented here are themselves literary critics or scholars, but nevertheless their approach very much has to do with what the writers they discuss mean for their ownwriting practice and potentially offer to other writers as well— not only, though of course also, to
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Who Is “Unifying Heads” and Why? (Buryat Anaphoric Poetry in Russian) Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Iurii Orlitskii
Iurii Orlitskii outlines the emergence of anaphoric lines (typical of traditional Buryat and Mongolian poetry) in translations of that poetry in Russian. From there anaphoric lines have been taken up by Buryat poets writing in Russian; Orlitskii looks at three of them, Aleksei Ulanov and two younger poets, Bair Dugarov and Amarsana Ulzytaev. The article includes a number of wonderful poetic examples
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Our Sun: Grigorii Dashevskii Has Died Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Maria Stepanova
Grigorii Dashevskii (1964-2013) was a poet, translator, and literary critic. In this obituary from the Russian newspaper Kommersant, his friend and fellow poet Maria Stepanova describes him as a person and a creative personality.
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Memory of the Former Future: Yevgeny Yevtushenko Has Died Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Valerii Shubinskii
When well-known poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died in 2017, a number of obituaries appeared in Russia and abroad. This one argues that the poet is important not so much for his poetry, but for the record it gives of the feelings and ambitions of people in his time.
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Russian Writers on Writers: Part I Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Sibelan Forrester
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Visit My Dreams, Please! Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Liudmila Ulitskaia
Prominent Russian author Liudmila Ulitskaia has gathered testimonies about the life of Natalia Gorbanevskaya (1936-2013), poet, prose writer, human rights activist and journalist, editor, publisher, and translator (especially of Polish poetry). Ulitskaia intersperses her own comments and reminiscences of her long-time friend (in italics) with the comments and reminiscences of a number of other friends
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“It’s Time You Knew: I’m a Contemporary, Too … ” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Mikhail Aizenberg
This first part of a two-part publication holds four presentations from a roundtable on the poetry and continuing influence of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), with presentations by Mikhail Aizenberg, Vladimir Aristov, Leonid Vidgof and Konstantin Komarov. Aizenberg discusses the rising reputation of Mandelstam in the last three decades of the Soviet era; Aristov raises “problems and lessons” of Mandelstam
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The Poet and the Empire Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Evgenii Abdullaev
This second group of presentations from the roundtable on Mandelstam organized by the journal Znamia includes pieces by Evgenii Abdullaev, Grigorii Kruzhkov, Boris Kutenkov, and Aleksandr Kushner. Abdullaev discusses Mandelstam’s attitude toward the Russian Empire and especially its Soviet incarnation, noting the poet’s relationship to the very traits of the state that eventually made it deadly to
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Introduction: Special Issue on Contemporary Russian Poetry Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Sibelan Forrester
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Political/Poetic Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Aleksandr Skidan
Skidan begins by considering the epic Lay of Igor’s Campaign, often read as the first work of Russian literature, and its political aspect, among its many other traits. The article then turns to poetry by Vladislav Khodasevich from the years just after the Revolution, and ends with a nuanced discussion of Paul Celan’s poem “In Eins.”
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“The Mask Is Ripped Off along with the Skin” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Kirill Korchagin
This article examines recent poems in which speaking subjects of various kinds engage in political speech, arguing that this poetry is distinctly different from earlier political poetry in Russia and especially in the Soviet Union.
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Distinguishing Trauma Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Stanislav Lvovsky
This article begins in response to Tatiana Vaizer’s 2014 article, also translated in this issue. It traces cases of trauma and violence through recent post-Soviet Russian poetry. Lvovsky distinguishes the generation of poets who were born in the early 1970s from those who were still children or even infants in the “traumatic” late 1980s and early 1990s, and he notes the signs of trauma being transmitted
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“Falter Not in Practising Tenderheartedness” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Maria Maiofis
In “Falter Not in Practicing Tenderheartedness,” Maria Maiofis argues that the political sphere does not lose autonomy in poetry by the “generation of the 1990s,” since different realities are acquiring primary significance. Contemporary poetry’s reaction to political events is an indispensable part of a wider lyrical reaction of the author/hero who seeks involvement and participation in global events
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Post-Conceptualism Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Dmitrii Kuz’min
This article identifies and discusses poets of the 1990s who practice what the author identifies as post-Conceptualism, engaging with Russian Conceptualism’s message that no way of writing poetry is not subject to eventual exhaustion (and thus to a send-up by the practitioners of Conceptualism). The author cites poets including Dmitrii Vodennikov, Dmitrii Sokolov, Kirill Medvedev, Danila Davydov, among
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The Traumas of Auschwitz, the Gulag, and the Unruly Nineties Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Ian Probshtein
This article examines the current Russian poetry scene from the point of view of its attitude toward trauma, particular the trauma of the 1990s, which combined the end of the Soviet Union with various economic and philosophical difficulties—including the challenge of emerging information about the Gulag and other bad world events. Probshtein focuses on the poets who were present at a particular festival
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“The Contemporary Russian Poet Comes Out and Sorta Drops Us a Hint” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Pavel Arsen’ev
This article examines the creation of a speaking subject in contemporary Russian poetry, its relationship to political action and the expectations readers have for particular stylistic habits, especially those of the avant-garde. These features stand out against the context of other poetic movements, especially Futurism/Formalism and the Oberiu.
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The Practice of Subjectivation Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Evgeniia Suslova
This article interrogates the current lack and potential future possibility of a new poetics in Russia that effectively takes politics into account, examining the linguistic, philosophical and experiential basis for development of such a poetics. Rather than citing individual poets, Suslova examines the scene as a whole. The article’s own style makes a gesture towards the possibilities considered.
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Traumatography of the Logos Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Tat’iana Vaizer
This substantial article begins as a review of Irina Sandomirskaia’s 2013 book Blokada v slove [The Blockade in the Word], also discussing writing on traumatic experience in general, especially the Holocaust, with attention to work by poets Paul Celan and Robert Schindel. In often poetic prose, Vaizer cites recent poets in Russia whose writings let language express trauma precisely by breaking the
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Introduction Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Mark Lipovetsky
Everyone with an interest in Russian literature knows about the upsurge of poetry in the early twentieth century, which would later be called the Silver Age, and then during the Thaw of the 1960s, when poetry readings filled stadiums. Yet it is usually forgotten that print runs for the new modernist poetry of the 1900s to 1910s were quite modest (a single hired cab was all Akhmatova needed to transport
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Stronger Than Uranus Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Aleksandr Skidan
This article considers the phenomenon of use of masculine grammatical foms in the speaking subjects of several important women poets of the 1990s and 2000s, applying western feminist and literary theory and sometimes drawing parallels with classics of Russian poetry. Poets cited include Anna Gorenko, Evgeniia Lavut, Mariia Stepanova, Marianna Geide, Aleksandra Petrova, Elena Fanailova, Anna Glazova
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“To Create a Person When You Aren’t One Yet …” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Il’ia Kukulin
The article focuses on the changes in poetic self-presentation in the 2000s, examining their roots in the poetry of the 1990s. Numerous poets are examined, along with examples of their verse and statements from various literary theorists, to illustrate the entry of splits or fractures into the poetic speaking subject. Poets cited include Tat’iana Moiseeva, Nika Skandiaka, Igor’ Bulatovskii, Andrei
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Russia and Its Others: Evolving Identity in Literature Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Sibelan Forrester
Russia’s literature, like that of any country, is shot through with issues of identity, including contested ways of being ethnically Russian and the discourse concerning the large variety of non-Russian ethnicities with various levels of legal and linguistic status. English unfortunately lacks a term for “rossiiskii,” meaning “a citizen of the Russian Federation” without regard to that person’s ethnic
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“When We Replace Our World …” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Kirill Korchagin
The Fergana School of poetry is one of post-Soviet poetry’s most remarkable phenomena. In the early 1990s, members of this school—Shamshad Abdullaev and Khamdam Zakirov, along with Hamid Ismailov, who is close to the school—proposed a project for the recreation of Uzbek literature. This approach involves inventing a new type of subjectivity that, in terms of a number of its features, could be described
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Immersion or Destruction? Adyghe Literature in the Era of Globalization Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Madina Khakuasheva
This article provides an overview of current trends in Adyghe (Cherkess) literature. One such trend is neomythologism, which can be linked both to rich national traditions of mythology and folklore and to neomythological tendencies in world literature. Khakuasheva explores the appearance of new genres, such as mythological and dystopian novels, phenomena for which serious changes in axiology and increasingly
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The Russian, the Soviet, and the Other in Post-Stalin National Discourse Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Gasan Guseinov
In this article, Gasan Guseinov examines the early antiglobalist “nativist” [pochvennicheskii] reaction to the internationalization of culture, or early multiculturalism. Using the example of Vladimir Soloukhin’s translation of Rasul Gamzatov’s My Dagestan, as well as Soloukhin’s own writing, he analyzes the formation of Soviet postcolonial discourse.
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Between a Conservative Revolution and Bolshevism Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Anatolii Rykov
Rykov’s article investigates the works of Nikolai Punin, a major figure in the Russian avant-garde and a theoretician of art and literature, in the context of the culture of late Stalinism. A central focus is Against Civilization, a work co-authored with Evgenii Poletaev that envisions a totalitarian utopia. It also explores the early 1940s literary work, Letters to M.G., and an unfinished dissertation
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The Revolutionary Aesthetics of the Second Russian Avant-Garde Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Dennis G. Ioffe
The text focuses on the stiob (the Russian word for a particular form of parody) and subversive aesthetic praxis of the Second Russian Avant-Garde. In particular, Ioffe analyzes Michail Grobman’s oeuvre from the perspective of various irreverent techniques associated with the political left and the cynic tradition, drawing a conceptual parallel between the avant-garde’s life-creational outrage and
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Graphic Symbols Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Evgenii Demenok
This article focuses on Russian Futurist Velimit Khlebnikov (1885-1922) as both a poet and a visual artist. Biographical and bibliographic data are drawn from various memoirists, especially David Burliuk but also citing Roman Jakobson, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Benedikt Livshits, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and others.
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Russian Futurist and Avant-Garde Works and Aesthetics Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Sibelan Forrester
All three substantial articles in this issue of Russian Studies in Literature consider the connection of art (verbal or pictorial) with politics, and with leftist politics in particular. All three are concerned with the interactions of literature and visual arts, which typified the activities of the Russian Futurists as well as the scholars who studied them and subsequent generations of avant-garde
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Mandelstam’s Stalin Ode Within the Context of the Overall Poetic Glorification of Stalin in 1937 Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Oleg Lekmanov
Oleg A. Lekmanov provides copious examples of poems about Stalin from the 1930s, and especially 1937, written by a wide range of both famous and forgotten Russophone Soviet poets as well as poets from various Soviet nationalities, including examples of putative folklore, translated into Russian. Mandelstam mobilizes this familiar and accepted vocabulary in his Stalin Ode, and Lekmanov argues that a
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A Mandelstam Jubilee Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Sibelan Forrester
The Russian fondness for celebrating authorial anniversaries is especially valuable when a favorite writer reaches a round number: you know there will be a flurry of articles, conferences, and related events in celebration. The 100th anniversary of Osip Mandelstam’s birth came in 1991, and there were certainly important events in connection with it; however, much of his work had only recently become
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The Language of Space Compressed Down to a Point Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Irina Surat
Irina Surat examines the poetry written during Osip Mandelstam’s two years of exile in Voronezh, finding that its precise evocations of space provide the terms that can be used to analyze the poems. This helps Mandelstam to address exile as a personal experience and a poetic trope, as well as to assert imaginatively his connections with the wider world—both in Soviet space and farther afield. Geography
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Where Did “Stolen Air” Come From? Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Irina Surat
Irina Surat traces the theme of theft through Osip Mandelstam’s work, finding its roots in works by François Villon and Paul Verlaine as well as Mandelstam’s life experience. Mandelstam’s attention to the earlier French poets allows him to note a word cluster that supports an image of the poet as thief and outlaw, supporting his work and self-image at a time when the Soviet literary system was no longer
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“A ray of light amid boundless desolation …” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Natalia Ivanova
Natalia Ivanova traces the relationship of Boris Pasternak and his contemporary, Osip Mandelstam, as recorded in their correspondence and in recollections by others. Despite the differences in their personalities and their poetic fates, their communication and mutual admiration became an increasingly important element in the life of each poet until and even after Mandelstam’s death.
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Three Commentaries on Poems by Mandelstam Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Grigorii Kruzhkov
Grigorii Kruzhkov examined three of Mandelstam’s poems. First, he identifies the various voices in “The Decembrist” (Dekabrist), arguing that this musical quality is an innovation in M’s poetry. Reading “To Cassandra” (Kassandre), he argues that the order of the stanzas was changed to conceal its counter-revolutionary meaning, nevertheless apparent to the attentive reader who could perform the same
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“And I’ll Only be Killed by a Peer” Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Irina Surat
In a less formal article, Irina Surat parses the words and history of Osip Mandelstam’s poem “The Wolf,” mostly written in 1930, to identify the significance of its final line, which the poet settled on only in 1935. The discussion ends by citing a stanza from “Facing Nature,” a 1975 poem by Aleksandr Eremenko, which builds on Mandelstam’s poem in much the same way as Mandelstam’s builds on writings
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Fantastika: An Update on Science Fiction and Fantasy in Russia Russian Studies in Literature Pub Date : 2016-10-01 Sibelan Forrester
Readers of Russian Studies in Literature may already know that Russia has one of the great world traditions in the genre of science fiction. They may also know that the word fantastika can refer both to science fiction, “nauchnaia fantastika,” and to other kinds of fantasy writing, though fantasy proper was not permitted in the Soviet period and today is usually described with a Russified form of the