Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade

Slavic Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Dianina
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Amateur Theater ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Great Reforms

The St. Petersburg Passage—a shopping arcade and recreation complex, comprising restaurants, exhibitions, amateur theater, and the Literary Fund—was a remarkable center of public life in imperial Russia. Contemporary journalists wrote incessantly about the Passage, celebrating the various forms of popular entertainment that it offered. In his strange unfinished story “The Crocodile,” which also takes place in the Russian arcade, Fedor Dostoevskii parodies this trivial discourse of the daily press. Urban spectacles and their refraction in the mass-circulation media are the main targets of his caricature of westernized popular culture in Russia. The writer's response to Russian modernity, as it was taking shape in the age of the Great Reforms, is expressly negative. Dostoevskii believed that in a decade defined by the rise of civic consciousness, the Russian press should address vital social concerns at home instead of celebrating ephemeral cultural imports, such as the arcade and the newspaper feuilleton.

Espionage and Exile

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Lassner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Crises ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
John Le Carre ◽  
The Cold War

Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War, British Writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, Pamela Frankau, John le Carré and filmmaker Leslie Howard combined propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Instead of constituting context, the political engagement of these spy fictions bring the historical crises of Fascist and Communist domination to the forefront of twentieth century literary history. They deploy themes of deception and betrayal to warn audiences of the consequences of Nazi Germany's conquests and later, the fusion of Fascist and Communist oppression. Featuring protagonists who are stateless and threatened refugees, abandoned and betrayed secret agents, and politically engaged or entrapped amateurs, all in states of precarious exile, these fictions engage their historical subjects to complicate extant literary meanings of transnational, diaspora and performativity. Unsettling distinctions between villain and victim as well as exile and belonging dramatizes relationships between the ethics of espionage and responses to international crises. With politically charged suspense and narrative experiments, these writers also challenge distinctions between literary, middlebrow, and popular culture.

scholarly journals The Maiden and the Wolf: Law, Gender, and Sexual Violence in Imperial Russia

Slavic Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-121
Author(s):  
Katherine Pickering Antonova ◽  
Sergei Antonov
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Court System ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Private Spaces ◽  
Evidence Law ◽  
Great Reforms

This article is a close reading of an 1859 court case from Moscow, in which a young orphaned noblewoman accused a much older, wealthier, and better-connected man. It situates the case in its cultural context among the striving middling classes of Moscow on the eve of the Great Reforms, revealing deeply fractured understandings of respectability, civic versus private spaces, masculine violence, and personal safety that permeated Russia's urban classes. Legally, the trial's outcome is not as surprising as the sharply conflicted reasoning of pre-reform judges. Each of the three tiers in the court system produced a radically different decision, pitching the obvious facts of the case against the state's pressure to convict the rapist and pre-reform Russia's supposedly archaic—but actually quite flexible—evidence law. Ultimately, the article argues that this noblewoman was able to use notions of female honor and domesticity in her favor, while the accused's status did not entirely serve to protect him where the need to protect male status conflicted with concerns over the dangers of westernization and modernization.

BULGARIA – MY ANCIENT, YET YOUNG HOMELAND

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-432
Author(s):  
Boryana Mihailova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Constant Exchange

Every teacher knows that raising a pupil is a constant exchange of thoughts and feelings between the teacher and the children. Somewhere in the process of this exchange it happens that the teacher feels the spark of the national feeling in the pupils’ souls, so he must support it with the relevant knowledge in order to ignite and intensify the feeling. The education of a worthy citizen of his country is one of the leading tasks of the preschool education. Its essence consists of the creation and implementation of a well-thought-out system of pedagogical actions, aimed at the formation of a civic consciousness and feelings in the child. The main goals in my work with the children in the group „Flame“ of kindergarten „Brezichka“ in Vratsa was to get them acquainted with the concept of the Motherland in a suitable format, to instill in them a sense of pride for their country, a desire to actively participate in public life and last, but not least – in the preservation of the Bulgarian language.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Masuknya Budaya Populer terhadap Eksistensi Ajaran Sedulur sikep pada Masyarakat Samin

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Widyatwati
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Younger Generation

Klopoduwur Blora  villagers are mostly descendants of Samin Surosentiko is a society that is still running the egalitarian values in daily life. These groups are known as community Samin. Samin community is a community that is consistent in behavior among others uphold the values of honesty , not envy, jealousy , prejudice is not ugly to others , behave and act what is ( not making this up ). Samin important for society not to disturb others and vice versa Samin people also do not want to disturb other people 's life and social institutions. Samin society is a society that can integrate the influx of popular culture with the attitude and teachings Sedulur sikep . Sedulur sikep teachings on society Samin persist accordance with the portions although popular culture spere  entered public life Samin. In everyday life people Samin uphold the teachings Saminisme entrenched . Samin society trying to keep the existence and preserve the culture and teachings Sedulur sikep to instill and teach the younger generation descendants and tribes Samin.

Popular Modernism: Little Magazines and the American Daily Press

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Leick
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
James Joyce ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
National Conversation ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Intimate Exchange

This essay looks at the American popular reception of modernist little magazines and of writers who were regularly published there, including James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. In the 1920s, book reviewers, syndicated daily book columnists who reached millions, and celebrity columnists took notice of authors or books that were considered news. Experimental modernist writing was frequently discussed, even when it had appeared in obscure little magazines. Even editorials in major newspapers debated literary trends. This national conversation about modernist writing has been largely ignored by critics, although it dramatically affected the canonization of writers in this period. Examining the popular understanding of modernism rather than the ways modernists understood popular culture reveals that there was an intimate exchange between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were better known and, indeed, more popular than has been previously acknowledged.

W cieniu radiacji. Seksualizacje bomby atomowej w kulturze popularnej lat 40. i 50. w Stanach Zjednoczonych

2017 ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Piotr Urbanowicz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Science Fiction Films

The aim of the article is to present a phenomenon of the sexualization of an atomic bomb in the popular culture of the 1940s and the 1950s in the United States. On the basis of sociological and cultural studies, the author lists the functions of this phenomenon. Furthermore, he uses the examples of press reports and popular cinema to indicate that the sexualization of the atomic bomb resulted from fear of sterilization and assimilation of soldiers coming back from the front. The analysis concerns the film I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958). The author proves that science fiction films conceptualize social concerns, and accustom the viewers with atomic tension by means of appropriate narratives.

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