Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853428
V. 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, and an analysis is offered of the main principles and techniques applied in criticism of children’s literature.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853429
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 reflects the legacy of Russian modernist prose and aspects of psychoanalytic theory, which he may have become familiar with firsthand in the 1910s or 1920s or indirectly through Russian modernist prose.
Maria Maiofis在她的文章中认为,Ruvim Fraerman 1939年的作品《野狗,或者初恋的故事》(Dikaia sobaka Dingo, ili Povest ' o pervoi liubvi)的主要目的不是作为一个青少年爱情的故事,而是一个十几岁的女孩与离婚父母之间的沧桑关系。弗雷曼对青少年心理的处理和通往成年的艰难道路反映了俄罗斯现代主义散文的遗产和精神分析理论的各个方面,他可能是在20世纪10年代或20年代或通过俄罗斯现代主义散文间接熟悉的第一手资料。
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2020.1859911
Sibelan E. S. Forrester
Children’s literature, which became a strong and valuable part of the Soviet literary system, has become still more lively and interesting in the last two or three decades. One consequence of this ...
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853425
O. Bukhina
Surprising as it might seem, in Russia, the history of children’s books written by women began with an empress: Catherine the Great was the first woman we know of to pen Russian-language literature for children. The tsaritsa was moved by maternal (or rather grandmotherly) concern for the moral education of her grandsons, for whom she wrote two fairy stories: “The Tale of Tsarevich Khlor” [Skazka o tsareviche Khlore] (1781) and “The Tale of Tsarevich Fevei” [Skazka o tsareviche Fevee] (1783). They abound in sage counsel on moral duty, reason, honesty, truth, and other elevated topics (Hellman, 2013: p. 9). It was a matter of mere decades before Russia had woman writers for whom children’s literature was a calling and profession. Were their tales, stories, and poems any different from those that men were writing for children? And what were their thoughts about the kind of literature that should be written for children, and, in particular, for girls? This issue of Russian Studies in Literature opens with an article by Marina Kostiukhina, an associate professor in the children’s literature department of the Herzen State Pedagogical University. Kostiukhina takes us to the first glimmers of feminism in Russian children’s literature. The “heroine” of this story is the writer Aleksandra Ishimova, one of Russia’s first and most successful female publishers of children’s literature. Examining her career and writings, Kostiukhina explores the question: Would we be justified in calling Ishimova Russia’s first feminist and, if so, what particular goals was she pursuing? Ishimova’s views, which were utterly traditional yet innovative in their orientation toward female community and practical advice, stood in
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853430
M. 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 Brushtein’s personal archive and the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. This is the first time these documents have been put to scholarly use.
摘要本文探讨了亚历山大·布鲁斯坦的自传体三部曲《通往远方的路》(Doroga ukhodit v dal)中实际历史事件与解读方式之间的关系,以及三部曲从12岁的萨莎·维戈德斯卡娅的日记到她的最终文本所代表的“意图转变”。该分析基于Brushtein的个人档案和立陶宛国家历史档案馆的材料。这是这些文献首次被用于学术用途。
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853434
E. Asonova, O. 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 raised within the framework of the genre of social realism in contemporary children’s writing. Asonova and Bukhina also explore the influence of translated children’s literature on Russian books for kids and teens published in the last decade and note the importance of the “high bar” set by translated literature. Authors of the article stress the significance of girl protagonists in teens’ literature as well as of variety of the deep psychological issues expressed with the help of these characters. Authors of the article discussed a role of picture books and non-fiction publications in the development of contemporary Russian writing for children.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853426
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] reflected the spectrum of opinion surrounding the woman question at the time.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853432
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 between generations, a contemporary rereading based on categories developed within the framework of gender studies brings the novel’s exploration of Soviet-era sex-role conflicts into sharp relief.
摘要本文考察了弗拉基米尔·基谢列夫的青年小说《女孩与鸟的飞机》(The Girl and The Bird Plane[Devochka i ptitselet]),这部小说写于1966年,当时正值陶王朝末期。虽然20世纪60年代末的评论家和小说电影版的编剧(《过渡时代》[Perekhodnyi-vozrast],1968年,理查德·维克托罗夫执导)将这部作品解读为以世代之间存在的复杂关系为中心,在性别研究的框架下,基于类别的当代重读使小说对苏联时代性别角色冲突的探索得到了极大的缓解。
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1853427
E. 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 Charskaia. She felt these were three of her best entries for the encyclopedia, which was compiled by members of St. Petersburg University’s School of Philology in 2011. An ebook of the encyclopedia is currently being prepared
叶夫根尼娅·普提洛娃对儿童文学史的档案传记研究是该领域的独特贡献。这篇文章的翻译略有删节,汇集了她为百科全书《文学圣彼得堡:二十世纪》(Literaturnyi saint - peterburg: XX vek)写的三篇文章:关于Aleksandra Annenskaia, Mariia Pozharova和Lidiia Charskaia。她认为这是她在2011年由圣彼得堡大学语言学院成员编纂的百科全书中最好的三个条目。这本百科全书的电子书目前正在准备中
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Pub Date : 2019-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2019.1740050
E. Ponomarev
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