scholarly journals “My Rap Is a Prayer but with a Razor in the Mouth”: Religious Themes in Russian Rap

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Nikolai S. Poliakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Social Character ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
New Form ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Rap Artists

The paper presents the analysis of religious themes in the lyrics of Russian rap artists. The songs of such musical groups and artists as “Kasta”, Detsl, FACE, Husky, Noize MC, “Sol’ Zemli”, “25/17” are considered. The article proves that rap in Russia has become a significant cultural phenomenon, and the lyrics of rap artists can be interpreted as poetry, inscribing it in the tradition of Russian literature. The article demonstrates that in Russian rap we can find such religious themes as God-seeking, anti-clericalism, criticism of religion as an institution, philippics against its individual representatives, a premonition of the coming Apocalypse, expressing a general sense of impending disaster. Musicians sensitively capture the atmosphere of the era and reflect it in their lyrics. Despite the fact that rap is a new form of art, in the world’s poetic tradition, dating back to the biblical texts, is reflected the works of Russian rap musicians, and at the same time it has a clear and sharp social character.

Furor Liturgicus: The Religious Concerns of Russian Poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 395-411
Author(s):  
Martha M. F. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Modern Russian

In a now classic 1994 article Victor Zhivov counters the idea that the eighteenth-century quest to create a modern Russian literature represented a wholesale rejection of Russia’s previous literary tradition. He shows instead how poets appropriated elements of Orthodox liturgical tradition in a bid to adapt the classical notion of ‘furor poeticus’, marking it by the eruption of Church Slavonic norms into modern poetics. This chapter demonstrates how, as Zhivov contends, elements of Orthodox liturgical culture have continued to shape the modern Russian poetic tradition from the eighteenth century into the present. In particular, Russian poets have long presented poetry as uniquely able to transform the world by drawing on Orthodox imagery of theosis or divinization—the transfiguration of human life and thus the world, by the divine light and being. The liturgically inflected religious concerns of Russian poetry that sections address include prophecy, human co-creation with God, the problem of the body, and the role of silence.

Reconstruction of the «Armenian» Text in the Russian Poetry of the XX Century (Computer Research Experience)

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Mikhail Amirkhanyan ◽  
Larisa Pavlova ◽  
Irina Romanova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Computer Research ◽  
The Common ◽  
Literary Portrait

The article describes a study on the reconstruction of the so-called «Armenian » text in Russian poetry. Russian folklore and ancient Russian literature have already mentioned Armenian literary portrait that was finally formed in Russian literature only in the ХХ century, after the tragic events in the history of Armenia in 1915. Through applying the software complex «Hypertext search for companion-words in author's texts» to the representative corpus of the Russian language poems on the Armenian theme (65 works of different poets), lexemes marking the minimal themes of the «Armenian» text have been identified. These lexemes act as dominant components of the «Armenian» lexical combinations presented in the poems of Russian poets («Ararat», «Yerevan», «mountain», «sky», «ground», «blood», «heart», «soul», «flame», «eternal») and optional ones («hostile», «to rot», «myopic», «book», «child», «Komitas», etc.). The common lexical combinations will allow the authors to establish intertextual links, which form the basis of the «Armenian» text in Russian poetry. However, in most cases poems have no intertextual links that could signal the influence of one text on another. The coincidence of vocabulary in the texts is usually explained by geographical and historical realities, as well as a poetic tradition.

Neterature as a Cultural Phenomenon in the Epoch of Digitization

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Zukhra Kuchukova ◽  
Liana Berberova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Internet ◽  
State University ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
Thematic Review

The article is a conceptual assessment and thematic review of the literary space of the Internet, designated in modern humanities by the synthetic term «neterature». The authors of the article indicate the names of specific sites intended for lovers of foreign and Russian literature, potential participants in creative contests, as well as those who want to publish their own poetic or prose works in electronic «self-publish books». In some cases, the phenomenon of digitalization of literature is considered on the example of the activities of students of Kabardino-Balkarian State University.

scholarly journals KEHIDUPAN SURAU DI MINANGKABAU SEBAGAI INSPIRASI DALAM KARYA SENI LUKIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Ferdian Ondira Asa ◽  
Sahrul N
Keyword(s):  
Educational Model ◽  
Ethical Research ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Photo Camera ◽  
Past Life ◽  
New Form ◽  
Current Reality

AbstrakSurau di Minangkabau sebagai tempat ibadah lebih dikenal sebagai mesjid, langgar dan musalla. Kehidupan surau sebagai tempat pendidikan  anak anak pada saat dahulu mendidik anak laki-laki di surau sebagai tempat bermalam, bermain, menggaji. Model pendidikan ini sudah merubah fungsi sebagai pendidikan modern. Fenomena surau masa lalu sebagai konsep dalam bekarya seni lukis, kehidupan surau di Minangkabau sebagai inspirasi dalam karya seni lukis merupakan bagian dari restrospeksi terhadap realita saat ini. Metode penciptaan karya seni lukis melalui  riset etik dan riset emik. Riset etik melalui teknik observasi, wawancara, mengamati dan mendokumentasikan fenomena yang ada di kehidupan surau. Riset emik teknik melukis membuat model dengan menggunakan plastisin untuk objek-objek utama kemudian di potret dengan kamera foto. Potret di jadikan sebagai acuan dalam melukis. Karya seni lukis yang divisualkan pada lukisan realis fotografi yang menceritakan kehidupan surau masa lalu, kehidupan tersebut seperti pendidikan, lukisan mengaji, batapian, bujang surau. Karya seni lukis tersebut bermaksud memberitahukan serta mengajak masyarakat untuk menghidupkan kembali kehidupan di surau. Sebab, kegiatan yang dilakukan di surau tersebut dapat membentuk karakter pemuda-pemudi di Minangkabau menjadi lebih baik. Ekspresi yang hadir dalam penciptaan karya merupakan perasaan marah, kecawa dan sedih, melihat fenomena yang terjadi. Kemudian diterapkan ke dalam karya seni lukis berbentuk dua dimensi, berupa simbol. Simbol yang hadir metafhor dari bentuk surau kemudian didisformasikan, sehingga hadir bentuk baru yang mewakili dari visual peranan kehidupan surau Minangkabau , dengan berpedoman pada unsur-unsur seni rupa.           Kata Kunci: surau, restrospeksi, fenomena budaya, Minangkabau AbstractSurau in Minangkabau as a place of worship is better known as mosques, langgar and musalla. The life of surau as a place for children's education when they first educated boys in surau as a place to spend the night, play, pay. This educational model has changed the function of modern education. The past surau phenomenon as a concept in the work of painting, the life of surau in Minangkabau as inspiration in painting is part of the retrospect of the current reality. Methods of creating paintings through ethical research and emic research. Ethical research through observation, interview techniques, observing and documenting phenomena that exist in surau life. Emik research painting techniques make models using plasticine for the main objects and then portrayed with a photo camera. Portrait is used as a reference in painting. The visualized artworks in realist photography that tell the life of the past, life such as education, mangaji  painting, bujang surau. The artwork aims to inform and invite people to revive life in surau. Because, the activities carried out in the surau can shape the character of young people in Minangkabau to be better.Expressions that are present in the creation of works are feelings of anger, laughter and sadness, seeing the phenomena that occur. Then it is applied to two-dimensional painting, in the form of symbols. The symbol that metaphor comes from the surau form is then informed, so that there is a new form representing the visual role of the life of the Minangkabau surau, guided by the elements of art.  Keywords: surau, restrospect, cultural phenomenon, Minangkabau

scholarly journals Siberian Free Verse of the 1920s – 1930s: General and Special in a New Poetic Form

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-155
Author(s):  
Yu. B. Orlitsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Folk Poetry

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, free verse (vers libre) begins an active penetration into Russian poetry, decisively moving from the category of a marginal poetic phenomenon into the most active forms of national verse. Since the end of the 1910s Russian free verse also appears in the thriving Siberian poetry. First of all, this occurs in the works of authors who work with verse in line with the main currents of the general Russian poetic tradition – relatively speaking, among the Siberian futurists, acmeists, and imagists. The article examines the process of the emergence of free verse (free verse) in the Siberian branch of Russian poetry in the first third of the twentieth century. Examples of early free verse from periodicals and books of the 1920s – 1930s, which were created in line with the all-Russian trends in the development of versification, are given. However, if we talk about the absolutely specific features of the Siberian free verse of the first third of the twentieth century, then this is, without a doubt, its use in translations and arrangements (including quite free ones) of the lyrics and epic of the peoples of Siberia. Publishing interlinear translations was common practice in those years. However, falling into the context of Russian literature, these interlinear translations were already perceived as poems, and precisely as written in free verse. The most productive source of Siberian free poetry can be considered the so-called “self- laying”, author’s variations on the themes of which are published by Anton Sorokin, Vsevolod Ivanov, Leonid Martynov and Pavel Vasiliev. Of particular interest are the Altai and Khakass “songs” of Ivan Eroshin, a significant part of which is also written in free verse. For the most part, these are small stylized lyric poems. His “Songs of Altai” is a rare example in world poetry of the reincarnation of a European poet into foreign characters – hunters, shepherds, even girls – on whose behalf most of the miniatures of the books “Blue Yurt” and “Songs of Altai” are written, performed by different types of verse. In total, from 1923 to the beginning of the 1950s, Eroshin wrote more than 40 vers libre, distinguished by the utmost laconicism combined with a bright “barbaric” imagery. A special place among the stylists of folk poetry (including the folklore of the peoples of Siberia) in Soviet poetry of these years is occupied by the poet and playwright Andrei Globa. His cycle of 1922 “Kyrgyz Songs”, consisting of 17 poems, was written mainly in free verse. His collection “Songs of the Peoples of the USSR”, which has survived three editions, includes translations and stylizations of works of different genres, many of which are also written in free verse. In addition, the paper examines the features of the use of free verse in translations and free transcriptions of the folklore of the peoples of Siberia, performed by V. Zazubrin, O. Cheremshanova, E. Tager.

scholarly journals APOPHATICS OF CULTURE IN THE POEM BY N. A. NEKRASOV “WHO CAN BE HAPPY AND FREE IN RUSSIA?”: NATIONAL EXISTENCE AND OTHERNESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (80) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
M.A. Dudareva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
200Th Anniversary ◽  
The Subject

The object of the article is apophatics as a cultural phenomenon. The subject is the national topic in the works by N. A. Nekrasov, this year they celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. The material for the article is the poem “Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?”. The ethoses of life and death are hermeneutically reconstructed in the work. Much attention is paid to the Russian folklore tradition in the poem, which was expressed both explicitly and implicitly. The research methodology is reduced to a holistic onto-hermeneutic analysis aimed at highlighting the folklore, ethnographic paradigm of this literary text. Much attention is paid to a path-road mythologeme. Parallels are drawn with the Russian fairy tale, which is characterized by an otherworldly paradigm, the search for “another kingdom”. The research results are to identify the cultural potential of the poem for the further study of the national topic, national existence and otherness,apophatics as a phenomenon of Russian culture associated with the phenomenon of death. The results of the work can also be used in teaching courses in Russian literature, cultural studies, philosophy.

scholarly journals Conversation and Civility

2018 ◽  
pp. 470-486
Author(s):  
Delphine Denis
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
New Form ◽  
French Nation ◽  
Aesthetic Values

In the wake of Italian handbooks of good manners, France forged the figure of the honnête homme from 1630 onward. If his merits were evident in conversation, it was thanks to conversation itself that he was able to acquire them. A new form of sociability flourished, one in which women played a decisive role. A host of terms concurrently attempted to define gentle and refined manners, among others civilité (civility), politesse (courtesy), urbanité (urbane elegance), and galanterie (gallantry). Trained in the school of the world, the galant homme should not be confused with the honnête homme, whose ideal, with a solid moral basis, was reshaped by the late seventeenth century. The air galant converted the social qualities of refined society into aesthetic values, thus giving birth to a new form of modern literature, although not without quite a few objections. In its social dimension as well as in its artistic achievements, galanterie was a genuine cultural phenomenon. As such, it was and remained identified for a long time as a key feature of the French nation.

scholarly journals A digitális korszak orosz prózairodalmának tendenciái: az interaktív irodalom kérdéséhez

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1–2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Csernyak ◽  
József Goretity
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon

The paper focuses on the analysis of e-literature, which is also present in contemporary Russian literature. It defines e-literature as a modern cultural phenomenon which heavily builds upon the readers’ activity and choices, as well as interactivity. It reviews the characteristics of e-literature and its place in today’s literature, primarily based upon Mikhail Epstein’s theories. The article introduces the genre diversity and potentials of e-literature through one of the most characteristic works in Russian e-literature, Boris Akunin’s Octopus project.

scholarly journals A CYBERCULTURE STUDY: K-POP AND THE NEW MEDIA - BTS AND TWITTER

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Cardoso ◽  
Matilde Castanho
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
New Media ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Form

This paper intends to describe, analyze, and reflect on the presence of K-Pop in the cybernetic environment, as a cultural and artistic manifestation of the XXI century, as well as to study and evaluate the participation of the band BTS (and its fan community) in the social network Twitter, looking for an understanding of its identity and contribution to the cyberculture universe. The importance of “Korean Pop” for the global music industry is, in present times, an undeniable fact, because of the success of several artists and groups of Korean heritage and/or managed by labels from South Korea that have been occupying the top places in charts previously dominated by Anglo-Saxon performers. The band Bangtan Sonyeondan, known worldwide as BTS, formed by Big Hit Entertainment in 2010, is pointed by the critics and specialists as one of the most successful and mediatic groups of the last years. The comparisons between the Beatlemania from the 60s and the behaviour of its fan base (self-proclaimed Army) are quite common. In this context, we intend to study this cultural phenomenon as a new form of culture and interaction between artists and admirers, using social media and new socialization techniques created and adapted to cyberspace. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0875/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

On study of the so-called Banti disease

1907 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Zabolotnov
Keyword(s):  
Special Form ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
New Form

In Russian literature we have very few reports of Banti disease. The first belongs to Gruzdev, with a detailed literary analysis of this issue and a description of the observed only clinically in the Kronstad hospital of one own observation. The late professor H.M. Lyubimov in 1902 introduced our society to this new form of the disease, which was established by him in one case at the section table, and was accompanied, moreover, by a special form of peritonitis. This observation with a detailed pathological and anatomical examination is the first in Russia.

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