Oportūnists, ļefists, majakovskietis, šāds-tāds inteliģentiņš Linards Laicens PSRS: biogrāfiskais aspekts un „Limitrofija”

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-109
Author(s):  
Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Constant Control ◽  
Politically Persecuted ◽  
Sources Of Influence

The article focuses on the part of Linards Laicen’s (1983–1937) biography marginalised in contemporary literary research – his life in the USSR. In literary studies, the main attention is paid to the writer’s early work; his move to the USSR is seen as a break in his writer’s creative growth, highlighting his obedience to the demands of socialist realism and schematism. The article outlines the most important aspects of Laicens’s biography, trying to construct his potential worldview and find the causal links to his arrival in the USSR. In 1932, Laicens was forced to emigrate to Moscow, where he spent the last five years of his life. Even though the Soviet government had tightened control over the artistic processes, Laicens continued to write according to his aesthetics, risking not only being censored but also politically persecuted. In 1935, Laicen’s last novel, “Limitrofija”, was published. It was written at a time when socialist realism was recognised as the only legitimate direction of art creation in the USSR. The article analyses the circumstances of the novel’s origin, poetics, features of modernism, sources of influence, publishing difficulties, and reception. After analysis of the documents available in the archives, correspondence, notes, publications, as well as the text of the novel itself, it is concluded that Laicens’s location in the USSR is not unambiguous/voluntary, and the novel “Limitrofija” is also part of his modernist and experimental literary contribution. This shows the continuity of Laicens’s creative search, although the USSR is dominated by political censorship and constant control and threats.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON ETHNIC MINORITIES DURING SOVIET UNION PERIOD IN RUSSIAN LITERARY WORK: THE NOVEL JAMILIA BY CHINGIZ AITMATOV

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mochamad Aviandy
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Literary

Literary works in the era of the Soviet Union is a literary work that belongs to the socialist realism stream. This stream was used by the Soviet government to help propagate communism-socialism throughout its territory, as well as in the world. However, Chingiz Aitmatov's novel, Jamilia, does not use the stream. This novel addresses the life in a Kyrgyz society in the era of the Soviet Union. The novel was published in 1958, at the peak of Russification by the Soviet government to all its territory. However, Aitmatov managed to portray the identity of the Kyrgyz people, part of the Soviet Union, with all its peculiarities. This novel illustrates the identity of the Kyrgyz people confronted with the identity of the Soviet Union - Russia through the characters in the story

scholarly journals 1930-1950’Lİ YILLARDA AZERBAYCAN’DA SOSYO-POLİTİK ORTAM VE ROMAN EDEBİYATI

HOMEROS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
İrade MUSAYEVA
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Global Events ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Islamic Values

The globalization of global events, revolutions, wars, art and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have created certain revolutions in our socio-political and literary-cultural meetings. Before him stood the test of Turkic and Islamic culture, Turkic, modernizing, Islamic values, philosophical discussions to prove himself and his national existence. The ideological mechanisms of such thinkers as J. Afganani, I. Gaspirali, MA Rasululzade, A. Huseynzadeh, A. Agaoglu, A. Topshubashov were revolutionizing not only Azerbaijan, but the whole Turkic-Islamic world. However, the invasion of Russia on April 28, 1920, as in all other areas, has caused a decline in the literature. In order to define the artistic method of socialist literature, Marxist literary studies invented new literary laws and theories. Debates, suggestions, and consultations worked to the detriment of the true literature, until finally the only version of the theory of method - “socialist realism” - was accepted. Thus, socialist realism was approved as the main creative method in the literature of all the Soviet republics, as well as in the Azerbaijani literature and especially in the novel aesthetics of the novel. The novel genre, which requires special thinking and, in Belinsky’s language, as a mirror of the time, has been removed from its true essence. The article examines the socio-political situation in Azerbaijan in the 1930s and 1850s and the reasons why this situation is not adequately reflected in the literature.

SPACES AND “NOT-SPACES” IN THE ZHADAN’S PROSE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halyna Vypasniak
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Petrol Station ◽  
Past Time ◽  
Native Group ◽  
The City

The paper analyses the symbolic features of spaces of Serhiy Zhadan’s prose. The main attention is paid to the novel “Voroshylovhrad” and the name of the city that doesn’t exist on the geographic maps anymore. Most spaces, such as a petrol station or abandoned airfield, could be defined as non-places (the term of M. Auge). For M. Auge it’s a type of space that shows the hybridity of our life. It’s basically the transit places. That is why there are no emotions connected with those non-places: no special stories, no narrative, that could create the place itself. The analysed novel by Serhiy Zhadan assures that even those places that weren’t noticed by most people and were treated by them as non-places, were really precious for others because of their personal memories and their past time, spent there. The paper also analyses the special features of the novel according M. Auge’s term the “anthropologic place”. It’s a place that represents an identity of native group that used to live there and shows the power of a connection between the place and its inhabitants. It’s also a place, where they can feel themselves and make their own rules. Those things make places like the petrol station, worth to be defended from intrusions.

Reading Beyond the Code

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Code Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Central Claim

This book explores the value for literary studies of relevance theory, an inferential approach to communication in which the expression and recognition of intentions plays a major role. Drawing on a wide range of examples from lyric poetry and the novel, nine of the ten chapters are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as an overall framework and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final chapter, written by the co-founder of relevance theory, reviews the issues addressed by the volume and explores their implications for cognitive theories of how communicative acts are interpreted in context. Originally designed to explain how people understand each other in everyday face-to-face exchanges, relevance theory—described in an early review by a literary scholar as ‘the makings of a radically new theory of communication, the first since Aristotle’s’—sheds light on the whole spectrum of human modes of communication, including literature in the broadest sense. Reading Beyond the Code is unique in using relevance theory as a prime resource for literary study, and is also the first to apply the model to a range of phenomena widely seen as supporting an ‘embodied’ conception of cognition and language where sensorimotor processes play a key role. This broadened perspective serves to enhance the value for literary studies of the central claim of relevance theory: that the ‘code model’ is fundamentally inadequate to account for human communication, and in particular for the modes of communication that are proper to literature.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: EAST AND WEST STUDIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (09) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Aziza Komilovna Akhmedova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Ideal ◽  
The Ideal

The article analyzes the results of the research on the representation of the aesthetic ideal through the image of the ideal hero in two national literatures. For research purposes, attention was paid to highlighting the category of the ideal hero as an expression of the author's aesthetic views. In Sinclair Lewis’s “Arrowsmith” and Pirimkul Kodirov's “The Three Roots”, the protagonists artistically reflect the authors' views on truth, virtue, and beauty. In these novels, professional ethics is described as a high noble value. The scientific novelty of the research work includes the following: in the evolution of western and eastern poetic thought, in the context of the novel genre, the skill, common and distinctive aspects of the creation of an ideal hero were revealed by synthesis of effective methods in world science with literary criteria in the history of eastern and western literary studies, in the example of Sinclair Lewis and Pirimkul Kodirov.

scholarly journals SPECIFIC OF THE GLOUCERSTER CANDLESTICK''S EKPHRASIS IN THE NOVEL “THE CHILDREN''S BOOK” BY A.S. BYATT

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
A.A. Kulinich
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Literary Research

The article deals with the Gloucerster candlestick's ekphrasis in the novel «The Children's Book» by Antonia Byatt, a famous English writer of the 20th century. Pictorial ekphrasises of the candlestick are analysed in the text through their functions. Ekphrasises of different artefacts have been analysed by modern scholars, the author's works included, but no detailed analysis of the phenomen under study (the Gloucerster candlestick) has been an object of literary research yet, which shows novelty and actual importance of the analysed issue.

“A GREAT PART TO PLAY”: GENDER, GENRE, AND LITERARY FAME IN GEORGE MOORE’S A MUMMER’S WIFE

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joellen Masters
Keyword(s):  
Great Part ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
George Moore ◽  
Literary Fame

An actor is one who repeats a portion of a story invented by another.— George Moore, “Mummer-Worship” (1891)THE COMPLEXITIES OF GEORGE MOORE’S CHARACTER, his reactions to Victorian life, and his experimentation with literary styles and genres make him a persistently marginal, albeit intriguing, character in literary studies. “[H]is best work,” Lloyd Fernando has observed, “rests to this day in an artistic as well as social limbo which resists complete definition” (10). A Mummer’s Wife (1885), his second novel, has been studied for Moore’s debt to French novelists, in particular Flaubert, or for the author’s reaction to the British circulating libraries’ power.1 In response to controversy over A Mummer’s Wife’s perceived crudeness, Moore claimed “I have a great part to play — I am fighting that Englishman [sic] may exercise a right which they formerly enjoyed, that of writing freely and sanely” (qtd. in Hone 114), even appointing himself “un ricochet de Zola en Angleterre.”2 Without exception then, author and scholars regard A Mummer’s Wife as a transitional work, the book that brought naturalism into the British tradition. The novel, however, suspended in that artistic and social limbo, has not come under scrutiny for additional and alternative readings.3

CYRANO DE BERGERAC AS A PREDECESSOR OF SCIENCE FICTION PROSE

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Natalia Pakhsaryan ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cyrano De Bergerac ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Century Literature

The article considers the genre of Cyranoʼs novel «Another world», widely discussed in both domestic and foreign literary studies. It explores the elements of science fiction in contrast to those of the miraculous, as they appear in the 17th-century literature, and identifies the features of utopianism and the peculiarities of scientific forecasting in the work. Both parts of «Another world» are examined in their similarities and differences from one another, as well as combination of universalism and topical issues of the novel with narrative irony and burlesque.

TwoArrests of Harlampiy Ermakov —prototype of the main character of the novel «And Quiet Flows the Don»

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.В. Венков
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Court Case ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Russian Empire

Во время гражданской войны в России казаки, выступившие в большинстве против большевиков, казались представителям советской власти враждебной монолитной силой. Лишь небольшая часть казаков поддержала большевиков. Проводя против казаков репрессивную политику, представители власти в первую очередь старались показать, что карают белых казаков, которые убивали красных казаков. Случай, когда восставшие казаки казнили казаков, возглавлявших на Дону советское правительство, стал идеальным поводом для репрессий против казаков вообще. В статье рассматривается судебное дело, в котором уцелевшие после гражданской войны белые казаки преследуются именно по обвинению в убийстве лидеров красных казаков. Показано, как изменение политики власти по отношению к казачеству влияет на решение суда, как после изменения политики тех же людей и по тем же обвинениям не отпускают домой, а расстреливают. During the Russian Civil War the Cossacksstrongly acted against the Bolsheviks. Soviet government perceived them as a solid antagonistic force. Only a few Cossackssupported the Bolsheviks. The Bolshevik policy of systematic repressions against Cossacks of the Russian Empire was aimed at the White Cossacks who killed the Red ones. The case when rebel Cossacksexecuted those Cossacks supporting the Soviet Government, became the perfect trigger for launching repression against Cossacks in general. The article examines the court case in which the White Cossacks who survived the Civil War have been charged with the murder of Red Cossacks leaders. It is shown how politics affect the decisions of the court.

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