Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2020.2147379
Ekaterina Lyamina, Natalia V. 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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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2020.2147375
I. 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 the story’s organizing principle. The perspicacity of an artist capable of penetrating the protagonists’ psychology while avoiding aesthetic convention sets the work apart from both Hoffmanesque fantasy and the factographic precision of the natural school. Dostoevsky’s experiment centers on the figure of the main protagonist, a dilletante scholar who combines features of the university intellectual and the unfettered artist. Ordynov’s drama echoes Dostoevsky’s own—his need to choose between an independent aesthetic position and a place in his era’s literary hierarchy.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2020.2147377
Anatoly V. 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 imagination along with the political thinking and priorities associated with them. From this standpoint, polyphony can be seen as one of the most fruitful and wholistic artistic interpretations of modern sociality experienced in an era of catastrophe, a sociality requiring a rejection of political action aimed at social change.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2020.2147380
J. Safronova
ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the illegal literature for the masses published in the 1870s by members of the populist movement known as the Narodniki. Here, we examine this literature as a product of imagination: guided by their own conceptions of the masses, the authors of illegal brochures wrote for readers they imagined to be incapable of comprehending serious scholarly writing and needing socialist ideas to be specially adapted for them. Such preconceptions of the mass reader existed within the context of a debate about literature for the masses involving not just liberal members of the intelligentsia, but also their ideological opponents, including government officials. The article’s second half examines how actual rather than the imagined readers reacted to the socialist literature that had been specially tailored to them. Unless there was a member of the intelligentsia to explain the meaning of these publications, they were unlikely to serve their purpose: they were handed over to children, priests, or rural authorities, or simply used to roll tobacco.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2020.2147378
P. 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 conception of sexuality. After determining that his ambivalent attitude toward sexuality is a semantic core of his delirium as narrative, I turn to the short story “Straightened,” which was written before his illness, and argue that its semantic structure was dictated by an attempt to find a non-contradictory way of looking at sexuality.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1872328
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 on the Unknown Soldier” to Picasso’s famous Guernica. Leonid Vidgof also considers Mandelstam as a contemporary poet, underlining among other things the important Jewish elements of his work. Konstantin Komarov’s brief final statement rounds out the session with two comments: on the ways Mandelstam is still ahead of today’s poets, and on the “dreadful povidentialism” of his famous “Stalin epigram.”
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1872329
L. 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 that specifically addressed this work.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1872330
I. 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 them within Mandelstam’s poetic and critical opus.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1872327
E. 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 Frost’s poem “The White-Tailed Hornet”); Lidiia Ginzburg (not a poet but an important scholar of Russian poetry, discussed by Boris Kutenkov); Nikolai Nekrasov (Aleksandr Kushner imagining a conversation between the two poets in which Mandelstam’s references to Nekrasov are revealed).
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1885284
Sibelan E. S. Forrester
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