scholarly journals POSTKOLONIALNE ZAPISKI Z PODRÓŻY DO „KOLONII”. OSIP MANDELSZTAM PODRÓŻ DO ARMENII, JURIJ KARABCZIJEWSKIJ TĘSKNOTA ZA ARMENIĄ

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 35-60
Author(s):  
Izabela Kowalska-Paszt
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Anna Akhmatova

Prosaic notes by Mandelstam and Kаrabtchiyevski selected for critical reading contribute to the Armenian text in the Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin, Valery Bryusov, Sergey Gorodetsky, Andrei Bely, Anna Akhmatova, Vasily Grossman, Andrei Bitov). A methodology adopted in the article enables analyzing the postcolonial awareness of travelling authors expressed in the two works, and its origin one should look for in the position of an outsiders in the Soviet culture. The autobiographic narrators — Mandelstam and Karabtchiyevsky — seem to be fully associated with a frequently tragic experience of a centuries long colonial domination suffered by Armenians. While the attitude of the author of the Journey to Armenia is supported by exceptionally broad knowledge about history and culture of the country, the main role in Longing for Armenia is played by well-motivated ethical emotions of the traveler.

Against the Machine

Russomania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 343-432
Author(s):  
Rebecca Beasley
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Literary Response ◽  
Soviet Culture

The final chapter of Russomania explores how the war and the Russian revolutions of 1917 transform the role of Russian literature for British-based writers. The first part of the chapter examines debates about Russian and French literature in The Egoist, the home of imagist poetry. It focuses in particular on the emergence of style as a key criterion of literary modernity, championed by the editors Richard Aldington and T. S. Eliot, and the process of its rejection as materialist by Egoist contributors, John Cournos and John Gould Fletcher. Their aesthetics take on a particular, anti-Bolshevik pertinence in the wake of the October Revolution, which Cournos witnessed as a member of the Foreign Office’s propaganda bureau in Petrograd. The chapter surveys British knowledge of the Russian revolutions and early Soviet culture, and analyzes the literary response they elicited..

scholarly journals Из Именного указателя к «Записным книжкам» Ахматовой: Итальянцы [From an Index to Anna Akhmatova’s _Notebooks_: Italians]

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 363-376
Author(s):  
Roman Timenchik
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
Anna Akhmatova

This article is yet another installment in the series of Roman Timenchik’s annotations to Anna Akhmatova’s Notebooks (see also three previous volumes of Slavica Revalensia). This particular installment concerns two Italians mentioned in Akhmatova’s notes: Bruno Carnevali (1924—1990) and Carlo Riccio (1932—2011). Keywords: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Anna Akhmatova (1889—1966), Annotations, Notebooks (1958—1966), In memoriam: Larisa Georgievna Stepanova (1941—2009).

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.

The New Prose of Tatyana Tolstaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Maria D. Bryzgalova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Real World ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
The Third ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person

This article studies the characteristics of Tatyana Tolstaya’s prose of the 2010s, that was compiled with her essays and previous works into a tetralogy: “The Imperceptible Worlds” (2014), “The Girl in Blossom” (2015), “The Invisible Maiden” (2015), “The Century Made of Felt” (2015). This study aims to identify the creative strategies used by the writer, as well as to trace how Tolstaya describes her particular topics in different genres. Hopefully, this will fill in the lacuna in the contemporary Russian literature studies, as Tolstaya’s works have received little academic attention despite their popularity among contemporary readers. To achieve this goal, the author of this article has applied structural-semantic and textological methods. The main feature of Tolstaya’s “new prose” is the transition from the third person narrative to the first. These changes are closely related to Tatyana Tolstaya’s creative roles, such as a teacher, a journalist, a TV-presenter, and a blogger. The role of an author is the main role as it affects the rest. The topics and motifs, present in Tolstaya’s previous fiction and non-fiction works though quite indirectly and detached, come to the fore in 2010s. The main themes include time, memory, and folk mentality. New novels and short stories can also be characterized by the motive of many worlds: the real world is surrounded by other worlds — the “aetherial” ones. Tolstaya’s “new prose” is undoubtedly intertextual, which is necessary for her style. It combines documentary and artistry, autobiographical features and a certain measure of detachment, which allow seeing an autobiographical heroine in the text.

scholarly journals Turgenev’s Anniversaries in the Memorial Culture of the Soviet Era

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Irina Koznova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working People ◽  
Supporting Structures

The memory of the past is one of the supporting structures of society. Contributing orientation in time and space to society, the memory acts as a connection between the present and the future. With the help of memory, society maintains its identity. What society remembers or forgets is the cultural core of its values and meanings. Being the representation of the past, versatile and selective memory is undergone to constant reorganization in the society in accordance with the demands of the present. The Soviet project, aimed at forming of a new society and a person, offered also its own project of the past, created its culture of memory. Ideas about the past changed along with the change of the Soviet present and the vision of its future. An important component of the culture of memory are the commemorations. Anniversaries of signifcant events and historical fgures allow to organize the work of the past in the present, to enter them into the current cultural space. The anniversary reading of the classic authors of Russian literature in the Soviet period was associated with the idea of mastering the cultural heritage of the past by the working people. The methods and forms of their memorialization, aimed at mass perception and appropriation, corresponded to the heroic matrix, which played the main role in the institutionalization of the Soviet collective whole. This matrix, based on the class-party principle, had two successive profles: revolutionary-international and nationalpatriotic. In the Soviet period there were several important dates in memory of Ivan Turgenev. Honorings of the writer complied with a certain canon. Turgenev’s works were primarily understood from the point of view of their social signifcance, in the context of both the Turgenev era and the Soviet era. Its multivalent potential was mainly considered from two aspects: the service to the revolution and the service toRussia.

scholarly journals „Ближайшая станция европейской культуры…”: полонофилия 60-х годов

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Kristina Vorontsova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Cultural Image ◽  
Polish Text ◽  
The Sixties

The article attempts to trace the sources of “polonophilia” in the Soviet culture of the sixties and to consider the strategies of the representation of the Polish text in Russian literature after the Khrushchev Thaw on the material of Stanislav Kunyaev, Boris Dubrovin and Emil Janvarev’s poetry. The special influence on the formation of the geo-cultural image of the Polish People’s Republic in this period is discussed in the context of Polish cinema (in particular Andrzej Wajda’s film Ashes and Diamonds).

scholarly journals „Russkij malczik” – bohater współczesnej literatury rosyjskiej

Adeptus ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Emilia Borkowska
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Surrounding World ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Literature Searches

‘Russkiy malchik’ – the hero of contemporary Russian literatureThe aim of this article is to present certain processes in contemporary Russian literature and the new hero of this literature. Russia literature after the collapse of the Soviet Union changed its position in the post-soviet culture. This was the result of cultural changes in this area. Some Russian critics noticed that a crisis in Russian literature had started at the beginning of the 90’s. Although Russian literature moved from the centre to the periphery of culture, this is, however, not crisis literature. It is literature that exists in times of crisis and with a new point of view describing the surrounding world. ‘Russkiy malchik’ – the new hero of Russian literature searches for his identity in a world that has changed unpredictably. He appears in the novels and dramas of present day Russian writers: postmodernist Victor Pelevin, realist Zahkar Prilepin and sentimentalist Evgeniy Grishkovec. These writers present different styles, generations and literary genres but their heroes are prone to the same problem: How to exist in a reality that they do not understand or accept.

scholarly journals О летописи поэтовой: Например, Ахматова [How to Tell a Poet’s Life Story: Akhmatova’s Case]

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 178-237
Author(s):  
Roman Timenchik
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Anna Akhmatova

This article is an attempt to expand the chronology of a poet’s life and works as a genre. It offers not to limit a poet’s biography to poem publication dates, lists of reviews, friendships, or crucial historic events, but to include such marginal texts as rumors, and even dreams—all contributing to the existence of a poet’s name in the semiosphere. KEYWORDS: 20th-Century Russian Literature, Anna Akhmatova (1889—1966), Chronology, History of Literature.

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