scholarly journals Alexey Slapovsky vs Fyodor Dostoyevsky, or Life Without Being

Literatūra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Tatiana Avtukhovich
Keyword(s):  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
Creative Evolution

The article examines the dialogue in A. Slapovsky’s works of the late 1990s–2000s with F. Dostoevsky. The article highlights forms and functions of this dialogue: the mention of the writer's name, the reinterpretation of his works perform the function of an ironic, often parodic, reflection on the changed status of the author, the nature of the readership, the perception of literature during a crisis of literary centrism; the value deformations occurring in society are emphasized with the help of a literary prism. “Dostoevsky's context” reflects the writer's reflection on his own work and allows us to judge the direction of Slapovsky's creative evolution.

L.I. Strakhovsky: Between Symbolism and Acmeism (Based on Foreign Publications)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-437
Author(s):  
Nikolay N. Nosov
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Individual Features ◽  
State Library

The article is devoted to L.I. Strakhovsky (alias Leonid Chatsky; 1898—1963), a Russian writer and poet of the first wave of emigration, and his poetry and prose reflected in foreign publications of his works in Russian. Returning to our culture the name of this author, now half-forgotten in his homeland, and introducing this name into literary studies, the article tries to reveal the thematic and stylistic diversity of L.I. Strakhovsky’s poetry and prose. The research’s object is foreign publications of L.I. Strakhovsky’s artistic works in separate books, almanacs and periodicals published in Belgium, Germany, Canada and identified through collection catalogues of leading Russian libraries (the Russian State library, the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad) and library resources that display foreign Russian-language publications by L.I. Strakhovsky. The article highlights and analyzes the main stylistic (symbolism, acmeism, “junior acmeism”) and thematic (autobiographical, English, mystical) components of L.I. Strakhovsky’s works, reveals the components’ individual features, the originality of their constancy and mutual influence. The main of these features is that L.I. Strakhovsky’s works can be stylistically periodized on the basis of the author’s increased propensity to cyclize his works though without creative evolution in the usual sense and with the stable nature of his working throughout his life. To review the publications and analyze the nature of L.I. Strakhovsky’s works, the article draws on the context of Russian and emigrant literature of his era, creatively associated with L.I. Strakhovsky and its main figures, and notes his literary and cultural influence.

The Meaning of the Concept of “Spiritual Energy” in the Philosophy of William James and Henry Bergson

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Maria M. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
William James ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Spiritual Energy ◽  
Spiritual Reality ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the philosophy of Henri Bergson and William James as independent doctrines aimed at rational comprehension of spiritual reality. The doctrines imply the paramount importance of consciousness, the need for continuous spiritual development, the expansion of experience and perception. The study highlights the fundamental role of spiritual energy for individual and universal evolution, which likens these doctrines to the ancient Eastern teaching as well as to Platonism in Western philosophy. The term “spiritual energy” is used by Bergson and James all the way through their creative career, and therefore this concept should considered in the examination of their solution to the most important philosophical and scientific issues, such as the relationship of matter and spirit, consciousness and brain, cognition, free will, etc. The “radical empiricism” of William James and the “creative evolution” of Henry Bergson should be viewed as conceptions that based on peacemaking goals, because they are aimed at reconciling faith and facts, science and religion through the organic synthesis of sensory and spiritual levels of experience. Although there is a number of modern scientific discoveries that were foreseen by philosophical ideas of Bergson and James, both philosophers advocate for the artificial limitation of the sphere of experimental methods in science. They call not to limit ourselves to the usual intellectual schemes of reality comprehension, but attempt to touch the “living” reality, which presupposes an increase in the intensity of attention and will, but finally brings us closer to freedom.

Creative Evolution

1913 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 485-487
Author(s):  
Jelliffe
Keyword(s):  
Creative Evolution

scholarly journals Lyuben Karavelov: the Bulgarian narrator, journalist and revolutionary

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-241
Author(s):  
Marina G. Smolyaninova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Revolutionary Romanticism ◽  
Realistic Representation ◽  
Literary Movements ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Creative Life

The article is about Lyuben Karavelov (1834–79), the preeminent Bulgarian writer who worked in the era of the Bulgarian national revival, an author of tales, short stories, ethnographic essays and political articles. Almost all of his creative life was spent in exile: he lived in Russia, the Serbian Principality, Austria-Hungary and Romania and published his works not only in Bulgarian, but also in Russian and Serbian, influencing the development of literary movements wherever he was located. In his creative evolution, he moved towards a realistic representation of life, overcoming the tendency typical of Bulgarian writers at that time to write with elements of sentimentalism and revolutionary romanticism. He wrote the best Bulgarian story of that era, “Bulgarians of Old times”. Many of his works reflected the influence of N.V. Gogol, N.G. Chernyshevsky and M. Vovchok, and contributed to the formation of realism not only in Bulgarian but also in Serbian literature. His influence would have been much greater if he had not died at the age of 45 from tuberculоsis immediately after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke.

scholarly journals Bhishma as a Superman in the Mahabharata

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Sabindra Raj Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Epic

This article explores and interprets Bhishma, one of the great heroes in the classical epic the Mahabharata, from the perspective of superman that the great philosopher Nietzsche postulates in his great work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The superman is one of the alluring concepts in the domain of entire philosophy. He has his own ideals, standards, and thus becomes the creator of his own self. Sacrificing himself for the morals and dignity, he becomes an emblem for the righteousness, truth, and virtues. He stands for the sake of justice and righteousness, and suffers to rise himself even beyond the dualities of the world. Nietzsche’s superman is a man transcendent. Bhishma, in the great epic the Mahabharata, also establishes his own values. He suffers a lot, but does not surrender. As a superman, the more difficulties he faces, the more he fills himself with new vibrations and vitalism in his life. His great pledge and his self sacrifice for the truth really transform him into a superman. Therefore, the creative evolution of Bhishma mirrors the genuine ideals of the superman. This paper applies the qualitative approach, and attempts to add a new dimension while interpreting and exploring the ideations of superman in one of the great heroes from the longest epic the Mahabharata.

From the gambler within: Dostoyevsky's The Gambler

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanju George
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
Gambling Addiction ◽  
Central Theme

SummaryFyodor Dostoyevsky is widely regarded as the greatest 19th-century Russian writer and a giant in world literature. He is familiar to literary-inclined psychiatrists for his rich and accurate portrayal of mental illness in several of his works. But his own chronic addiction to gambling and its consequent perils are less well-known. This article discusses The Gambler, one of Dostoyevsky's early (1866) semi-autobiographical novellas, inspired by his own addiction to roulette, focusing on its depiction of gambling. To better understand Dostoyevsky the gambler, the article also presents brief excerpts from letters that he wrote to his wife in 1867, when his gambling addiction appears to have been at its worst. Finally, the relevance of the central theme of this work, gambling addiction, to the present-day psychiatrist is discussed.

Człowiek podziemny w prozie konfesyjnej oraz wspomnieniowej Fiodora Dostojewskiego i Marii Komornickiej. Przypadek Notatek z podziemia i Biesów

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Anna Kargol
Keyword(s):  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Universe

This paper considers the idea of an underground man. It attempts to answer why writers reach for such a type of heroes and their position in the face of contemporary novel solutions. Maria Komornicka and Fyodor Dostoyevsky see in fallen individuals a source of creative inspiration. The confessional prose of these writers is an attempt to talk about the nihilist heroes who have chosen to live in a place of the metaphorical underground. The underground space becomes a construct of these works, and it is also a symbolic place where individuals desire chaos and darkness. The heroes of Demons and Notes from the Underground escape from where “everyone” lives and go underground, devoting themselves to underground mysticism because only such space protects them against the total collapse of the universe. Underground imagery governs the research process and shows how it determines the structure of a work and influences the methodology and ways of reading these works

P. P. Bazhov. The Malachite Box [Malakhitovaya shkatulka]: A scholarly edition

2021 ◽  
pp. 284-289
Author(s):  
S. S. Belyakov
Keyword(s):  
The Urals ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Scholarly Edition

A review of the first scholarly edition of The Malachite Box [ Malakhitovaya shkatulka], a famous collection of tales (skazy) by the Russian writer Pavel Bazhov. Bazhov created his distinctive artistic world, which provided the basis for the subsequent emergence of the unique mythology of the Urals. Bazhov’s skazy are an example of stylised folklore, yet the stylisation is itself rooted in folklore tradition. This scholarly edition of The Malachite Box includes a comprehensive historical, literary and philological commentary. The editors examine the differences between all nine editions of The Malachite Box published in Bazhov’s lifetime and the first publications of the tales and their holographs and discover a number of minor textual discrepancies across all publications in question. The book has the tales arranged chronologically, which offers a chance to follow Bazhov’s creative evolution and get a better understanding of his connection with his time.

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