L’or, les esclaves, les femmes et les paladins dans l’Histoire de Kazan

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Pierre Gonneau
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Historical Romance ◽  
Russian Literary

“War and Chivalry in the Land of the Tatars: Gold, Slaves, Women and Warriors in the Kazanskaia istoriia”. Kazanskaia istoria (circa 1564–1565?) is a first try at a historical romance in the Russian literary tradition. Inspired by the conquest of Kazan by Russian troops (1552), it enriches the factual narrative with literary themes such as the fabulous and dangerous wealth of the Tatar world: gold, silk, slaves and women. It also expresses a chivalry code and a sense of honor transcending the divide between Christian Russians and Muslim Tatars. These themes will be extensively developed in later Russian literature.

scholarly journals Transforming the image of Yakutia in Russian lyric poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. e021026
Author(s):  
Anna Igorevna Oshchepkova ◽  
Evdokiya Maksimovna Dorofeeva
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
The 19Th Century

The topic of the reception of Russian classics is often considered in the context of the formation of Yakut literature to determine the influence of Russian literature on the genesis of the Yakut written tradition. In the study of the genesis of Yakut literature, the focus is usually on the influence of Russian literature. Therefore, there is already sufficient experience in determining the degree of reliance of literature with a recent system of writing on the Russian literary tradition. Nevertheless, the question of the influence of the Yakut theme on the formation of the creative consciousness of Russian writers is also difficult. Upon close examination, the reception of a foreign culture appears to be sufficiently differentiated: the influence of the Yakut culture was predominantly indirect. The Yakut theme in Russian literature has a receptive character since there was no concept of the Yakut context at all in the socio-cultural situation of the 19th century. Writers begin to form the "Yakut text" in Russian literature based on the perception of the listener and the reader. Thus, the comprehension of the Yakut culture follows the path of recoding the texts of an "alien" tradition into the language of "one's own" literary tradition. The article deals with the transformation of the image of Yakutia in the works of Russian poets of the 19th–20th centuries. The trend is considered from the perspective of expanding the aspects of the figurative representation of Yakutia and the nature of perception of Russian poetry to the Yakut national topos and is divided into several stages.

scholarly journals The peculiarities of Zabolotsky’s poetic discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 04015
Author(s):  
Anna Butova ◽  
Angelina Dubskikh ◽  
Ekaterina Lomakina
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Russian Literary

Although N. Zabolotsky’s creative work constantly attracted researchers, there are still problems that have not been reflected in the scientific literature. This article aims to define the features of Nikolai Zabolotsky’s poetic discourse in the Russian literary tradition. To achieve the aim, the authors deal with a wide range of challenges: the study of Zabolotsky’s worldviews in the context of the general mentality of the epoch; identifying the specific nature of figurative and semantic interactions in the poetic language and the objective reality in Zabolotsky’s and the Symbolists’ poetry; establishing the features in the poetic re-creation of artistic existence. Zabolotsky’s poetic heritage, considered from historical, literary and discoursive approaches is the material of the research. The material of this article can be used in teaching Russian literature of the XXth century and also promote the discovery of new facets in studies on poetics and culturology.

scholarly journals Dostoevsky, Siberia, and the Russian Person in Donna Tartt’s Novel The Goldfinch

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Turysheva
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Road ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
American Author

This article considers the Russian motifs present in the narrative of The Goldfinch (2014), a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. These include the depiction of the main character’s Russian friend, allusions to the creative work of Dostoevsky, the interpretation of his novel The Idiot made by the characters, and a detail testifying to the Siberian descent of the second main character. The author makes an attempt to analyse previously unstudied motifs connecting the story of the character with the Russian context. More particularly, she substantiates the importance of Boris Pavlikovsky’s Siberian roots. The author concludes that Tartt portrays the Russian person not only as a complex of stereotypes found in culture but in close connection with the Russian literary tradition. The article combines immanent analysis of text with hermeneutic, mythopoetical, intermedial, and intertextual methods. The author concludes that by referring to the Siberian descent of the second main character, Tartt introduces the Siberian myth into the receptive context of her novel formed on the basis of the whole corpus of Russian literature. It is a myth of Siberia as a space of liminal death and Christological initiation (acc. to V. I. Tyupa). It is proved that relying on this mythologeme makes it possible for the reader to decode the underlying semantics of the novel. It relates to the idea of the resurrection of the character facing the tragedy of death. The plot of The Goldfinch is interpreted as a plot of returning to life through the experience of staying in the land of the dead, crime, and dying. Additionally, the author analyses the function of motifs connected with Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. It is not only present as an allusion in Tartt’s work but as an object of the characters’ reflection. For Theo Decker, this reflection results in the acceptance of Dostoevsky’s idea of the resurrection of a great sinner. It is demonstrated that relying on his perception of Dostoevsky’s works, the character realises the circular plot of accepting life and redemption. This interpretation makes it possible to reconstruct the evangelical subtext of the novel. The novel’s ekphrastic aspect also proves it by means of the character’s reflection on The Goldfinch, a painting by Carel Fabritius. Apart from the liminal chronotope, the author analyses other chronotopes of the character that are also of considerable importance: the Christmas chronotope and the road chronotope. The poetological peculiarities revealed prove that Tartt’s works belong to the genre tradition of Bildungsroman (initiation novel). This is illustrated by other images of Dostoevsky’s works, including the ones Tartt used in her first novel The Secret History (1992).

New understanding and old myths. On I. Esaulov’s Russian Classics: New Understanding [Russkaya klassika: novoe ponimanie]

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-191
Author(s):  
E. V. Abdullaev
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Eastern Orthodoxy ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Methodological Principles

The article examines methodological principles of studying the Russian literary canon in the cultural context of Eastern Orthodoxy, as demonstrated in I. Esaulov’s book. While acknowledging the importance of the book’s method, the article reviews and criticizes the concepts used by the scholar (the Eastern archetype, the Christmas archetype, the categories of Law and Grace, etc.). In particular, the author challenges the statement that a writer populates his works with archetypes prevailing in his culture (so Eastern Orthodox ones in the case of Russian culture), often against his own religious principles. Also subjected to critical analysis is the thesis about the Easter archetype being more specific to Russian literature, with the Christmas archetype being more typical of Western literature. On the whole, the paper argues that the transhistorical approach declared by the scholar as opposed to the rigorously historical method (M. Gasparov and others) may often lead to strained hypotheses and mythologizing; all in all, it may result in an ahistorical perception of both Eastern Orthodoxy and the literary canon.

“Above Me is the Heavens Diversity”： Intertext in the Lyrics by Ivan Elagin

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Aleksandra A. Khadynskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Partial Solution ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Literary Allusion ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Intertextual Connections ◽  
Second Wave

The relevance of the study is dictated by the need to identify intertextual connections in the lyrics by I. Elagin as evidence of the dialogic nature of his poems, their close connection with the Russian and world literary tradition. The article reveals the problem of detecting intertextual sources in the poetry of the second wave of emigration due to its poor study at the level of poetics, a partial solution of which is proposed in this publication. The novelty of the research lies in the detection of allusions and quotations that have not previously attracted the attention of researchers studying the work by I. Elagin. The aim of the study is to determine the allusive background of the Elagin's lyrics, which is necessary for the poet to organize a cultural dialogue with the metropolis of the literature. Based on the goal, the research methods were determined: the analysis of intertextual relations based on a comparative and historical-literary approach. In the course of the study, conclusions were drawn about the presence of a number of new, previously unnoticed allusive sources of Elagin's lyrics, consonant with his outlook of the emigrant poet, and also revealed the dialogical nature of his work, which is distinguished by the tragic outlook of a man of the new “neon age” - a time that does not accept poetry. In addition, it was determined that his intertextual dialogue with classics and contemporaries reveals the polemic and ambiguousness of his attitude to the new industrial age and, at the same time, faith in the unlimited possibilities of the poetic word, due to the fact that for Elagin, as a poet who formed abroad, it was important to define his own poetic genealogy and his place among Russian poets. As a research perspective, it should be noted the possibility of further consideration of the complex of intertextual connections of the poet, demonstrating his desire to be included in the circle of the “big” literature of the metropolis, to declare the uninterrupted tradition of Russian poetry, but at the same time showing a new look at them from the position of a “non-Soviet” person aesthetic space. Keywords; Ivan Elagin, poetry of the second wave of Russian emigration, intertextual connections, poetry of Russian emigration, literary allusion, traditions of Russian literature

scholarly journals Reflection of image of Silence in the Russian literary of XVIIIth c.: Lomonossov and Pindar

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Saveljeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
The Common

The purpose of the report is to consider the image and content of «tranquility» in the Russian literature of the XVIII. The image «Beloved Tranquility» and the common styleof the celebrated Lomonossov’s Ode-1747 could be connected with Greek early ode poetics Pindari Pyth.8.

Life Is Elsewhere

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Lounsbery
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
European Standard ◽  
European Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Symbolic Geography ◽  
Literary Regionalism ◽  
Western European ◽  
Enduring Power

This book shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called “the provinces”—a place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. The book looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature's representation of the nation's space. The book brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, the book argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficult questions about the symbolic geography of the nation as a whole. This constant awareness of a far-off European model helps explain why the provinces, in all their supposed drabness and predictability, are a topic of such fascination for Russian writers—why these anonymous places are in effect so important and meaningful, notwithstanding the culture's nearly unremitting emphasis on their nullity and meaninglessness.

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF RHYTHMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIAN- LITERARY PROSAIC TEXT AS A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE TEXT AFFILIATION TO A LITERARY PERIOD

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (99) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
ELENA I. BOYCHUK ◽  
ELENA V. MISHENKINA
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Automated Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Prose Rhythm ◽  
Literary Period ◽  
Rhythmic Structures

The article analyses the rhythmic characteristics of Russian-language literary texts using the automated PRD (Prose Rhythm Detector) application. The authors consider the main approaches to the periodization of Russian literature of the XIX-XXI centuries in order to determine the affiliation of works to a particular epoch based on the specifics of the text rhythmic structures. The quantitative and statistical methods of the analysis are used.

Conclusion

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Russian Literary

This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. Part of the purpose of this study has been to recover a sense of the range and scope of the work of just one of the writers generally thought to be part of the world of official Soviet literature. Berggol′ts is known first of all for her wartime poetry; that work deserves to be placed firmly in the context of her writing before and after the war. Its importance should not be denied, but it should not be seen as a sudden, unprecedented outburst of creativity. In its exploration of Berggol′ts's writing, this study has shown that life and art became tightly entangled in her poetry and prose; the poet's own conviction that the two should be intimately connected is demonstrated by her texts. Yet it would be wrong to lose sight of the fact that we have been dealing with literary texts which must be viewed in relation to other literary texts. While much of what Berggol′ts wrote displays its connection with events in her life and in the life of her society, her writing also reveals its awareness of how others wrote. Russian literary tradition and the poetry of her contemporaries helped to form Berggol′ts's work.

Strategies for building a professional reputation of Russian emigres and self-educated writers

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 512-520
Author(s):  
Yuliya V. Kaminskaya ◽  
Oxana A. Tolstonozhenko
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The People ◽  
Professional Reputation ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Literary Process

We analyze the ways of constructing a writer's reputation in exceptional cultural conditions related to displacement of entire generations of authors to the literary process periphery and their lack of a “right to creative work”. We compare the experience of two conditionally distinguished large and heterogeneous groups – writers from the people who tried to declare themselves at the beginning of the 20th century as an independent current, and representatives of the Russian literary emigration. In addition to a number of common features (falling into the “blind zone” of generally recognized literature, internal isolation, leading to the fact that the majority of readers belong to the same environment as writer, the lack of economic benefits from publishing works), self-educated writers and emigres resorted to similar strategies for building a reputation. We find that representatives of both groups formulated a noble mission uniting them, aimed at serving na-tional literature, turned to the experience and poetics of predecessor writers to construct their own literary tradition, legitimizing their special creative path, and tried to structure their sub-field by creating associations and circles , as well as critical reflection of the current literary process.

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