{"title":"“ACCESS POINT” – 2020: DIGITAL THEATER IN THE PANDEMIC CONDITIONS","authors":"Vera V. Serdechnaia","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-83-91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-83-91","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the phenomenon of digital theatre, that is a theatre created via digital technologies. Digital theatre needs to be distinguished from a “traditional” one, and a broadcast theatre, using digital technologies (online broadcasting). Digital theater, which had been developing even before the 2020 pandemic, flourished during the lockdown period, when theatres found themselves in a situation of forced isolation. The article analyzes examples of Russian and foreign performances, in particular, those been included in the program of the “Access Point” (“Tochka dostupa”) festival, which took place online in 2020. Digital theatre is created in particular formats via digital means and tools; it can use cross-platform instant messengers and videoconferencing software such as “Whatsapp” and “Zoom”, mailing and calling services, audio recordings; Minecraft, Sims and other creative media; augmented reality technologies.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121744332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DIASTASIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO DISTANCE THEORY","authors":"A. Markov","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-30-41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-30-41","url":null,"abstract":"The word “distance” itself is ambiguous: it means both the gap between two things, and the very ability of a thing to be at some distance from another, to stand at a distance. In the first case, we are simply talking about the impossibility of things to interact in the usual mode, while in the second about the thing’s own position, its individuation, which does not allow confusions. The superposition of these two meanings is productive for thought: from Plato’s reasoning about the causes of civil disorder through Nietzsche’s melancholic concept of elitism to 20th century theories proceeding from “social distance” (R. Park) as one of the starting points for constructing social reality. Although the translation of this word into different languages is not a problem, since the visual metaphor suggested by the geometry course (segment of a line) is clear, in all cases it is necessary to take into account rather explosive potential of its semantics.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LITERATURE AS A SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: FROM “SUBJECT-SUBJECT” TO ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH","authors":"M. Pavlovets","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-64-82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-64-82","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on some recent approaches to teaching literature as a school discipline, that arise to “reconstruct” it on a new ground in response to the general awareness of crisis in this area. Special attention is paid to the concept of “subject-to-subject reading method” formulated by a widely known expert on F.M. Dostoevsky’s work, doctor of Philology Tatyana Kasatkina. In this article we conclude that this method is hardly applicable for public schools, as it proposes conflict of a first reading experience and a research-based “re-reading” with a priority of the latter. This approach lets the image of reader’s life experience fade in the process of comprehension of the text for the sake of cognizing the subjectivity of the author. However, being relevant for a professional philological research, the method depreciates the role of readers’ subjective comprehension and interpretation of the text and may even discourage reading motivation of pupils, who do not look forward to getting a philological education, but for whom the free time reading and communication, based on the texts they read, may become one of the most significant life priorities.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125402914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“CAPITAL” AND “PROVINCE”: PHILOLOGY IN THE SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE","authors":"S. Zenkin","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-17-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-17-29","url":null,"abstract":"The paper, written on the basis of a report read at Tyumen University, is devoted to the prospects of international exchange in philology in the context of widely spread institutional and disciplinary preconceptions about “metropolitan” and “provincial” science. The focus is on the specifics of the subject and prevailing practices in both cases (the study of concepts / the study of contacts); the specifics of the treatment of the national literary canon; the choice of methodological approach and research contexts, etc. The main vectors of philological exchanges that overcome the “peripheral” limitations of local philological research, mostly seen in its subordinate informative function for world science, are comprehended. Among them, the methodological reflection, independent of specific national and cultural material, stands out. The assumption is made that general ideas and theoretical questions asked to the subject are best derived from a separate tradition into international circulation and have the greatest chance of being picked up by researches from other countries to enter into a dialogue with their own concepts. Such questions are asked to masterpieces of national classics, “big data” studied by specialists in “world literature”, and to great theorists of the past, whose legacy reconfigured the history of ideas. It is also indicated that the export of ideas is especially effective in the situation of revision of disciplinary divisions, the collapse of old and the formation of new research paradigms. Philology in this perspective acts as an epistemological reference point, helping to clarify the relationship between a culturally limited “science for oneself” and a cosmopolitan “science for everyone”.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"86 25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126290507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NEO-BAROQUE ELEMENTS OF YURY BUIDA’S POETICS","authors":"Thomas Cenis","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-92-123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-92-123","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the neo-baroque elements in the work of the writer Yury Buida, considers the concepts of neo-Baroque (Benjamin, Deleuze, Calabrese, Lipovetsky), as well as the relationships between Baroque and neo-Baroque in postmodern poetics. In Buida’s prose such distinctive features of neo-Baroque aesthetics are revealed as excessive quoting and genre-style eclecticism (“The Fifth Kingdom”); “rhythm of repetitions and breaks” in repetitive motifs and representation of the characters (“Everyone flowing”); manifestation of neo-Baroque melancholy and nostalgia (“The Prussian Bride”); the aesthetics of excess, manifested in the physical and moral deformation of the characters or in mass scenes of violence in a theatrical fashion; the image of the library-labyrinth (“Nscdtchndsi”). The article also interprets the role of the Königsberg text as an object of the author’s melancholy and nostalgia, an element of the narrative linking of the author’s stories. The neo-Baroque elements are analyzed not only as a re-mythologization of the style and of the specific views of the epoch, but also from the point of view of their poetic function in the texts. In Buida’s texts these elements can perform as tools of author’s control over the reader’s reception, as well as strategies aimed to confront chaos and entropy.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114778028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SEMANTIC STRUCTURE MODELLING OF THE TEXTS ABOUT HOME CITY","authors":"Daria S. Pavlova, A. A. Savelyeva","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-124-133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-124-133","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the intermediate results of a sociolinguistic experiment. The main purpose is to model the semantic structure of texts about the city. The research material was 20 texts about two cities of the residents of Perm (Russia) and Cherkassy (the Ukraine). The informants were young people aged from 18 to 25 years. Text processing was carried out in the information system “Semograph” with the use of graphosemantic modelling. The analysis of the obtained models of two cities demonstrates the key microthemes and the strongest connections between them, which form the framework of the semantic structure of the city’s representation by its inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115746992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Settling in distant worlds","authors":"Alexander Ilichevsky, E. Maksimova","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-7-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-7-16","url":null,"abstract":"Alexander Ilichevsky is a writer and poet, author of the novels “Ai-Petri” (2007), “Matisse” (2007), “Persian” (2010), “Mathematician” (2011), “Newton’s Drawing” (2020). Winner of the “Kazakov Award” (2005), winner of the “Russian Booker” (2007) and the “Big Book” (2010 and 2020). In the P&I issue dedicated to distance, Alexander Ilichevsky talks about astronauts and airships, looks at Jerusalem from the height of the twentieth floor and tries to reconcile physics with metaphysics. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova. MA students of the programme “Literature in cross-cultural perspective” A. Alentyeva, A. Drozhzhina, F. Lazarev, A. Leshchinskaya, N. Minnikova, D. Pikalova, N. Chibrikov contributed with the questions for the interview.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129593499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CURTIUS AS THE PROUST’S READER","authors":"V. Kotelevskaya","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-134-142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-134-142","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines a book by the German philologist, researcher of European and French literature Ernst Robert Сurtius (1886–1956), dedicated to Proust’s poetics. Almost unknown to Russian readers, the essay “Marcel Proust” appeared in 1925 to be the first in-depth German study of Proust’s style, his epistemological and aesthetic ideas. In its insights and precision, this essay by Curtius is on a par with the critical writings of Proust’s early critics, such as Ortega y Gasset, Benjamin, and Nabokov. It is an analytically transparent exploration of Proust’s world and style, which reveals itself like a prophecy today. What is striking is the calmness and firmness with which the German philologist identifies, at such close quarters, the “topoi” of Proust that we today bring into the arsenal of Proustianism with a certain irony.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131074411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MYSTICAL DISTANCE IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S SHORTER FICTION: THE SPIRIT OF PLACE AND THE LANDSCAPES OF THE HEART","authors":"Marina S. Ragachewskaya","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-42-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-4-42-63","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses the Jungian archetypal theory to analyze a selection of shorter fictions by D.H. Lawrence (the novellas The Princess (1924), St Mawr (1925), The Woman Who Rode Away (1928), The Escaped Cock (1929) and a few short stories) where the enigmatic aspect of place and distance plays an important role in the narrative, character development and personality individuation. I single out four types of the mystical distance in D.H. Lawrence, and focus on the spatial aspect. The paper shows that each novella or short story treats “the spirit of place”, albeit in a deferent light: the place may embody the Spirit, the Shadow, the Anima or Animus archetypes. Each travelling protagonist undergoes a spiritual transformation, which is presented in non-identical patterns, and the distance they cross bears the signs of the mystical. The place serves as the physical location of the quest, while the workings of the soul reveal such forms of spiritual and mystical aspects as Spirit-Animus, Spirit-Shadow, sacrifice and rebirth.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127400734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WOMEN’S WRITING AND WOMEN’S FREEDOM: ABOUT TOLSTOY’S NOVEL “FAMILY HAPPINESS”","authors":"A. Molnar","doi":"10.18522/2415-8852-2021-3-114-124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18522/2415-8852-2021-3-114-124","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to aspects of women’s writing and women’s freedom in Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Family Happiness” (1859), which is studied by researchers widely, including the context of the “women’s freedom”, despite the fact that it is not solved in it “progressively”. Tolstoy does not justify the feminist expectations of the reader, whose attention is attracted not so much by the question of the social status of women in a patriarchal society or in the big world (although this topic is also being significantly rethought), as by the path of self-knowledge that runs through experience and understanding the essence of love, flirt, and happiness. Each of the spouses must go this way by oneself; only then will the broken bonds of marriage be sealed again, and the spouses will find unity in real “family happiness” – children. Such a result contradicts what the gender approach, sometimes attributed to the works of the classics. The main subject of the narrative – the question of happiness – is considered ambiguously, in the conflict of male and female writing: both ideologically (in reasoning) and metaphorically (in so-called “lyrical digressions”). The narrative, ideological layers, and the layer of imagery of Tolstoy’s novella cannot be distinguished: the plot twists turn out to be in relation to the images of nature and demonstrate the evolution of the heroine’s understanding of happiness.","PeriodicalId":318261,"journal":{"name":"Practices & Interpretations: A Journal of Philology, Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114887505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}