scholarly journals The image of Bolshoye Boldino in the Russian literature: peculiarities of local text formation

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Kseniya Ivanovna Yashina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Text Formation

The subject of this research is Bolshoye Boldino as the landmark of the Russian culture. The goal is to give characteristics to the image of Bolshoye Boldino established in the Russian literature, as well as analyze the possibility of formation of the local text. It is proven that constant traits of Boldino, such as solitude, isolation from the big world, simplicity of life, and vagueness of time boundaries, were formed based on the letters, works, and events in the life of A. S. Pushkin, and later comprehended by other authors. It is noted that the collection of texts about Bolshoye Boldino consists of the saying and interviews, fiction and folklore compositions. The research material includes the poems and an saying M. S. Petrovyh, Y. V. Drunina, D. S. Samoilov and B. A. Akhmadulina. The conclusion is made that in the Russian culture, Bolshoye Boldino resembles the place of commemoration of A. S. Pushkin, as well as the space that allows a person to achieve comprehension and mindfulness. In the aforementioned works, the image of Bolshoye Boldino in ambivalent: the space is interpreted as a place of salvation or as the origin of the tragic events in life of the poet. The author assumes that the Boldino text is in the process of formation and has low intensity, which is substantiated by its remoteness of from the cultural centers.

scholarly journals New school subject “Native literature (Russian)”: Contents and methodological foundations of the exemplary program

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Belyaeva ◽  
Maria A. Aristova ◽  
Zhanna N. Kritarova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Native Literature

The article explains the purpose of creating an exemplary program of the subject “Native literature (Russian)” connected with the execution of the Federal Law on Education, supporting the main aim of the core course in literature – the development of a competent reader, as well as reinforcing the cultivating function of school literary education and preserving the Russian language, literature and culture against the background of Russian multi-ethnic and multicultural society. The following objectives of the new subject acquire particular significance: perceiving literature as one of the main cultural values of the nation (which reflects its national character, history, worldview); ensuring cultural self-identification, becoming aware of the communicative and aesthetic power of the mother tongue based on the study of outstanding literary creations of the Russian culture, the culture of one’s ethnic group, world culture. The methodological background to the exemplary program rests upon the idea of an ideological nature and educational potential of the Russian literature. In creating the didactic model in question, the authors of the program used theoretical and practical research methods, as well as the cognitive and system- and activity-based approaches. The results of the research were as follows: validation of the legal and regulatory framework of the new subject and the primary goals of its study, elaboration of the principles – which are based on the system of value codes shared by the whole nation’s cultural tradition – according to which the contents and structure of the course are selected. The article demonstrates what distinguishes “Native literature (Russian)” from the school subject “Literature”, how each of the three content branches of the program contributes to the development of subject knowledge and skills from grade to grade, why this or that recommended literary work is included in the topic-issue units, and which forms of the final subject assessment are most preferable. The exemplary program of the subject contributes to solving the issue of national and cultural identity and understanding what role the Russian literature plays in becoming aware of the national traits of the Russian culture. It also fosters the comprehension of cultural concepts that are crucial for the Russian national consciousness and the development of one’s ability to transform his/her reflections on works of native literature into personal convictions and positive values.

scholarly journals The “echo” of Edgar Poe in Anna Akhmatova’s “Poem without a Hero” and poems later period

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Anna Vladislavovna Lamzina ◽  
Lyubov' Gennad'evna Kikhnei
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Research Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Cross ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Anna Akhmatova

The subject of this research is the hidden allusions to the novels of Edgar Poe in Anna Akhmatova’s “Poem without a Hero” and poems later period. The research material contains the framework text of the “Poem without a Hero” – the set of epigraphs to different parts of the poem, authorial commentaries, history of used and discarded epigraphs at various stages of revision of the poem, text of the “Poem without a Hero”, as well as the author's “Prose about the Poem” and a number of poems created during the work on the “Poem without a Hero” and afterwards. A. Akhmatova was interested in the works of Edgar Poe, and researched the references to Edgar Poe in the works of N. S. Gumilyov. The article employs comprehensive methodology, such as comparative-historical and biographical approaches, as well as intertextual and hermeneutic methods for determination of literary allusions and interpretation of meanings hidden by the author. The main conclusion lies in revelation of the profoundly concealed connection of the “Poem without a Hero” with the range of narratives of Edgar Poe, united by the cross-cutting motif of being buried alive and coming back from the dead: “The Black Cat”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Morella”, “Ligeia”, “Berenice”, “The Oval Portrait”. This gives a new perspective on the literary characters that one after another appeared to the lyrical heroine in plot of the poem; and explains the fragment of one of the most mysterious works in Russian literature of the XX century, and some other poems of Anna Akhmatova.

scholarly journals Lomonosov as an emblem of the Russian poetry (Russian poets of the XVIIIth century about the portrait of M.V. Lomonosov)

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
O.V. Alekseeva ◽  
E.Ya. Antonova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Semantic Element

The purpose of this work is to analyze the poetic responses of writers of the XVIIIth century to the lifetime portrait of M.V. Lomonosov in the context of interest in the emblem. Research methods are cultural-historical and semiotic. Throughout the XVIIIth century, the emblem studies were incorporated into the Russian culture; they were used as a decorative and semantic element in visual arts and as an artistic device in literature being the reflection of the emblematic way of thinking of the time. The emblematic beginning has become the focuse of attention of modern researchers of Stefan Yavorsky, A.D. Kantemir and G.R. Derzhavin. The emblematic way of thinking of the time, manifesting in the lyrical genre of the portrait caption, is believed to be unstudied. The subject of this work is the single lifetime portrait of Lomonosov to which several poets (N.N. Popovsky, V.I. Maikov, G.R. Derzhavin and N.M. Karamzin) responded in different decades of the XVIIIth century. Working in the genre of the signature to the portrait, characteristic of their era, the poets, who were successors to the ode tradition established by Lomonosov, gave an assessment to the work of their predecessor. The comparative analysis of four poems shows how the poetic perception of Lomonosov changed during the XVIIIth century. In the middle of the century Lomonosov in the cultural consciousness of the era was significant as an epic poet, as an odes writer and as a scientist while at the end of the century Lomonosov is perceived exclusively as the creator of the solemn ode. We can say that the image of Lomonosov is emblematized and becomes a sign of Russia’s rootedness in the cultural context of Europe. The poems themselves, connected with the image and thought of as captions to the portrait, become the part of the emblem. At the end of the article, a number of questions and tasks are proposed that can be used by teachers of literature during the study of the Russian literature of the XVIIIth century and the works of M.V. Lomonosov’s, in particular.

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.

Turgenev’s depictions in contemporary cultural studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Rebel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

A review of S. Volkov’s History of Russian Culture during the Romanovs Rule. 1613–1917 [Istoriya russkoy kultury v tsarstvie Romanovykh. 1613–1917] and A. Davydov’s Neopolitical Liberalism in Russia [Neopoliticheskiy liberalism v Rossii], the article is concerned with depiction of I. Turgenev’s personality and creative legacy. Both historians set ambitious culturological goals for themselves, yet their interpretations of the subject betrays their very tentative knowledge of historical and cultural realia, as well as poor grasp of art’s aesthetic nature. Volkov chooses to build his story around a para-literary gossip verging on an abusive lampoon, with Turgenev’s character downgraded and distorted, and the scale of his work completely overlooked. In his search of ‘neopolitical liberalism’ in Russian literature, Davydov finds it in unexpected places, while missing it altogether in Turgenev’s works, where it constitutes an ideological foundation and key element of their meaning and poetics. The studies by Volkov and Davydov tend to sacrifice historical-literary and artistic material in favour of prejudice and subjectivity, as well as arbitrary concepts.

ON THE PROGRESS OF THE STUDY RFBR № 18-012-00579 “RUSSIAN DIALECT GOOD-WISHING: SEMANTICS, STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONING”

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (97) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
LIUDMILA I. ZORINA
Keyword(s):  
Russian Culture ◽  
Vologda Region ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Russian Dialect ◽  
Project Lead

Communicative aspects of Russian dialects functioning are insufficiently investigated. The project is aimed at studying a special phenomenon of Russian culture - village speech etiquette. The task, the project is aimed to solve, is to describe the features of communication in the Russian province, the mass of the inhabitants of which still speaks a dialect. The subject of the research is the semantics, structure and functioning of etiquette units in folk speech. In 2019 the project lead published 5 scientific articles and also participated in 6 scientific conferences. During the summer expedition there have been collected and analyzed numerous materials on the dialects of the Vologda region.

A. Rudalyov. 4 shots (A. Zhuchkova)

2019 ◽  
pp. 272-277
Author(s):  
Anna V. Zhuchkova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
New Realism ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Subject

The review considers A. Rudalyov’s book 4 Shots [ 4 vystrela ], devoted to the ‘new realism’, a trend in 2000s Russian literature, and more specifically, works of four ‘new realists’: Z. Prilepin, R. Senchin, S. Shargunov, and G. Sadulaev. The reviewer criticizes the author for an incomplete and biased presentation of ‘new realism’, which had been a focus of intense discussions among literary critics and scholars for over a decade. The same flaw blights the descriptions of the four chapters’ respective protagonists: Prilepin, Senchin, Shargunov, and Sadulaev. Rudalyov ended up writing a panegyric, albeit with very sparse language, mainly by repetition of flattering epithets from the press. He failed, however, to address the discussion of the ‘new realism’ by critics or supply a review of literary theoretical research on the subject. Therefore, the reviewer finds the book lacking in any historical-literary and philological value.

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.

CLASSIFICATION OF RUSSIAN CULTURE-BOUND TERMS AND THEIR EQUIVALENTS BASED ON THE TRANSLATION OF “QUIET FLOWS THE DON” BY M. A. SHOLOKHOV

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
SVETLANA S. UZHAKINA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Historical Epoch

The classification of Russian culture-bound terms used in the novel “Quiet Flows the Don” by M. A. Sholokhov and in its translation into the English language. The novel “Quiet Flows the Don” by M.A. Sholokhov and its translation into English done by Robert Daglish have served as the source for the research of culture-bound terms. These terms have been classified on the basis of the subject division offered by S. Vlakhov and S. Florin. It is proved that the interest to the study of culture-bound terms is still important. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that despite numerous research papers in this field the origin, classification and translation of these terms still need some investigation. The aim of the present study is to classify the culture-bound terms taken from the novel “Quiet Flows the Don” by M.A. Sholokhon and its translation into the English language. As a result, there have bben taken 407 samples of the lexical units with a cultural component which were classified according to the subject principal offered by S. Vlakhon and S. Florin. The culture-bound terms have a great influence on a foreign reader as they are cultural units that transmit the information of the daily routine and the historical epoch described in the novel. The culture-bound terms taken from the novel “Quiet Flows the Don” by M.A. Sholokhov and its translation are analyzed and classified. The division of the culture-bound terms according to the subject principal allowed to reveal that most terms refer to the daily routine, social and political life and military terms.

Parnicki a Rosja. Rekonesans

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-338
Author(s):  
Piotr Gorliński-Kucik
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Critical Project

The article considers issue of the connections between Teodor Parnicki, the Polish author of historical novels, and Russia. His attitude has its origins in biographical experiences. Knowledge of Russian culture is evident especially in the early work of Parnicki, and above all – in literary criticism of the interwar period. Careful reading shows that the sketches and reviews are a conservative critical project, the subject of which is Soviet social and cultural policy and communism in general. This article also complements the current state of research (who did not address this issue), while being a contribution to further research.

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