Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-238-275
E. V. Kuznetsova
{"title":"Arnold Böcklin’s Pictorial Motifs in the Poetry of Russian Modernism","authors":"E. V. Kuznetsova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-238-275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-238-275","url":null,"abstract":"The work of the Swiss artist Arnold Böklin (1827–1901) is a bright page of European culture. His painting “Island of the Dead” for several decades in the early 20th century was a favorite canvas of the Russian intelligentsia. The article attempts to consider the evolution of the perception of Böklin’s painting in the era of Russian Art Nouveau in poetry, criticism and public consciousness. The main material of the study is the lyrics of K. Fofanov, A. Fedorov, N. Klyuev, I. Bunin, Andrei Bely, I. Ehrenburg, Sasha Cherny, I. Savin and A. Tarkovsky. Fofanov and Klyuev saw in the painting of the artist a deep reflection of their thoughts about the succession of birth and death in the life of each person and in the fate of all mankind. Fedorov turns to the images of Böklin to create his own version of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Bunin was attracted by the lyrics of nature, mood landscapes expressing the eternal beauty of the universe. Andrei Bely was interested in Böklin’s experiments in pictorial mythopoetics related to his own searches. In the poetry of I. Savin and Tarkovsky’s “Island of the Dead” changes its symbolic content: from a symbol of the greatness of death, it becomes a sad monument to Russian pre-revolutionary life, washed away by a wave of historical cataclysms.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89577352","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-46-63
V. Shcherbakov
{"title":"Nikolay Soloviev as a Criticm of Chernyshevsky’s Aesthetic Theory","authors":"V. Shcherbakov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-46-63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-46-63","url":null,"abstract":"Dissertation of Nikolay Chernyshevsky “The Aesthetic Relationship of Art to Reality” (1855) is one of the most controversial works in the history of humanitarian sciences. Even during the author’s life, it was estimated ambiguous (and also sharply negative). Among the early responses to this work, a prominent place is occupied by the critical cycle of Nikolay Ivanovich Solovyov (1831–1874) “The Art Issue” (1865). The critic analyzes Chernyshevsky’s concepts of the beautiful, the sublime, the tragic and comes to the conclusion that his definitions are untenable. Solovyov also finds little solidity in Chernyshevsky’s judgments about certain kinds of art, noting this tendency to emphasize the imperfection of artistic works in comparison with nature. Solovyov’s main conclusions are as follows: Chernyshevsky’s “theory of reproduction” is an attempt to revive the theory of imitation of nature, while the appearance of novelty is created by pointing to “real direction of thoughts” of the author Chernyshevsky very vaguely characterizes the beautiful; grossly simplifies the tasks of art (“reproduction”); discredits the creative imagination and the artist’s craving for the ideal; seeks to lower the high status of art in the range of human interests. Solovyov’s analysis is distinguished by consistency, respect for the convictions of his opponent, as well as his own view of the issues raised by Chernyshevsky. In “The Art Issue” and other articles Solovyov defended his belief that Chernyshevsky’s “theory of reproduction” was the prototype of the utilitarian and nihilistic views on art in journalism of the 1860s. This article presents for the first time a detailed analysis of Nikolay Solovyov’ s views on art in comparison with Chernyshevsky’s aesthetic theory.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90512602","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-46-67
N. Dolgorukova
{"title":"“Intertextuality” in the 12th Century: Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes","authors":"N. Dolgorukova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-46-67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-46-67","url":null,"abstract":"The article makes a significant contribution to research on the problem of the connection between Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes, the most famous and innovative French authors of the reign of Henry II. The aim of the work is to demonstrate how this influence is reflected through a systematic review of the numerous indirect echoes and reciprocal references, in other words, the intertextual and interdiscursive links between the works of Chrétien and Marie. These links allow us to consider certain lays of Marie de France devoted to the metamorphoses of people into animals (e. g., “Yonec,” “Bisclavret”) as a “Breton” version of ancient Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” These motifs borrowed from Marie were then adapted by the young Chrétien as well as certain episodes (paternal love in the “Two Lovers” and the “Philomena,” the meeting at the window in “Rossignol” and “Lancelot,” the drops of bird’s blood in the “Aüstic” and “Perceval”) and the use of the word “surplus” attest this.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76938330","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-10-45
V. Tiupa
{"title":"Two Wings of Art Writing","authors":"V. Tiupa","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-10-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-1-10-45","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the correlation between aesthetic and rhetorical aspects of artistic writing in a historical perspective. Before the “aesthetic revolution” of the 18th century, which was marked with the publication of Baumgarten’s Aestheticism, written language, while possessing an essentially creative potential, was conceived purely rhetorically, not as the creation of conditional holistic worlds, but as a textforming craft of a special kind. The discovery of the creative nature of art served as a powerful impulse for its development and shaped classical European artistry. A mental crisis of artistic culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in an imbalance between the aesthetic and rhetorical vectors of artistic writing. Avant-garde provocation, political engagement, and consumer fiction depreciated the aesthetic component of art from various angles. The critical discord between de-aestheticization of artistic writing and the rehabilitation of its aesthetic value was embedded in the formation of a theory of literature as a science, which took place in the polemic between “aesthetics of verbal creativity” by M.M. Bakhtin and purely rhetorical poetics of the formal school. This confrontation, which gave rise, in particular, to the phenomenon of “postmodernism,” continues to this day. It is in this confrontation that the fate of literature as an art of the word is decided.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77876574","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-256-279
Alexei M. Lyubomudrov
{"title":"“You Have a Lot of Soul, This Is the Main Thing for Creativity.” The Correspondence between Ivan Shmelyov and Leonid Zurov (1928–1929)","authors":"Alexei M. Lyubomudrov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-256-279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-256-279","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time the article introduces а correspondence between the writers of the Russian Diaspora Ivan Shmelyov and Leonid Zurov into a scientific circulation. Shmelyov’s letters contain some characteristics of the first books of the young writer and his artistic talent as well as outlines the prospects for a further creative path. Shmelyov turns his attention mainly to the inner world and personality of the writer. He advises Zurov to engage in self-education, get acquainted with Russian and European philosophy, develop his artistic word. The letters allow to see Shmelyov’s active care, which revealed in his initiative for publishing Zurov’s works in Paris periodicals, promoting the positive critics responses (reviews by V. Amphiteatrov and K. Zaitsev), and supporting Zurov’s decision to move from Riga to France. Some letters concern the episode with removing of the Zurov’s short story from the newspaper “Russkiy Invalid.” Sincere and warm Zurov’s letters reveal the details of his life in Riga. They also talk about his travelling around Latgale, which served as a source of his creative inspiration. The published correspondence, thus, introduces new nuances in the biographies of two bright creative personalities of the Russian emigration.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"319 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135355968","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-194-213
Sergey N. Morozov
{"title":"Some Issues of Commenting Ivan Bunin’s Early Stories of 1887–1902","authors":"Sergey N. Morozov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-194-213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-194-213","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the principles and methods of commenting Ivan Bunin’s early fiction prose. It is pointed out that research into the type and level of completeness of scholarly commentaries on works of classics of Russian literature has been conducted for almost a century. The structure of the commentary in academic collections of Russian writers’ works is presented. The article offers a methodology of writing a commentary on the early literary prose of Ivan Bunin, while exploring the problems and questions that arise in the commentaries on the writer’s prose written for the future academic Complete Works and Letters by Ivan Bunin, the work on which has already begun. The principles of writing each section of the commentary for this scholarly edition of Bunin’s literary heritage are outlined: textual, historical-literary, and realhistorical ones. The latter section is presented in a more detailed structure of seven paragraphs. For each item, the paper provides several examples of commentary on specific realities from Bunin’s early stories. A separate section is devoted to linguistic commentary, for which several examples of commentary on particular regional words and folk expressions are also given. Thus, the commentary on Bunin’s prose should be comprehensive, combining with the greatest possible completeness all the necessary information about each work.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135356124","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-162-181
Maxim V. Skorokhodov
{"title":"Esenin’s Poem “Us”: Materials for Historical and Literary Commentary","authors":"Maxim V. Skorokhodov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-162-181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-162-181","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines Esenin’s poem “Us” in the context of the poet’s works of 1914– 1917, first of all relating to the national history (“The Song of Yevpaty Kolovrat” and “Martha the Mayoress”). Special attention is paid to the historical sources of the “Us” poem in view of the wide range of Esenin’s readings in the mid-1910s and his classes in 1913–1915 at the History and Philology Department of the A.L. Shanyavsky Moscow State University. Esenin was able to familiarize himself with popular textbooks, songs of the Razin cycle as well as with historical works which pay considerable attention to Stepan T. Razin. At the same time Vasily R. Us was a rare and minor character in works devoted to Razin. One of the first addressed to the image of Us was Kamensky in his novel “Stenka Razin,” published in 1916. But if in Kamensky’s Us is an associate of Razin, in Esenin’s work he is an independent character, and the second central character is Us’ mother.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73769767","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-140-161
K. Sarycheva
{"title":"Evolution of Female Images in the I.A. Grinevskaya’s Works of the 1890s–1900s.","authors":"K. Sarycheva","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-140-161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-140-161","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the evolution of female images in the literary and critical writings of I.A. Grinevskaya in 1890s–1900s. The analysis focuses on early works of the author, which reproduce different female types, their life and experiences. In the 1890s Grinevskaya describes recognizable situations in the home and family and women in their traditional roles. By the 1900s her attention shifts to serious social problems, which affects on her interest towards certain types of women, men and their relationships. In the play “Bab” (1903), the main characters, the prophet Bab and his follower Khuret, depart from traditional gender patterns of behavior. One of the main storylines is the women’s movement led by Khuret, which touches upon issues relevant to women at the beginning of the 20th century: women’s education, prejudice against the age, appearance and behavior of women. The play “Bab” marks the beginning of a new stage in the evolution of Grinevskaya’s creativity and worldview. In the late 1900s she herself becomes a member of the women’s movement, and the problems identified in the play will be discussed in her lectures in the 1900s.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82652820","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-126-147
Tatiana M. Dvinyatina
{"title":"Literary Circle of the Poet I.A. Bunin in 1895–1900","authors":"Tatiana M. Dvinyatina","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-126-147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-126-147","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces the history of the formation of Ivan Bunin’s poetic circle during the first years of his metropolitan literary career: from his first visit to Moscow in early 1895 to the time when he was preparing his key collection of poems, “Autumn” (1901). Those were the years when Bunin established contacts with the senior symbolists Konstantin Balmont and Valeriy Bryusov, made the acquaintance of Chekhov and Gorky and became friends with Aleksander Fedorov, Aleksander Kuprin and the members of the Fellowship of South Russian Artists, some of whom influenced the young Bunin’s literary work. By the beginning of the 1900s Bunin had formed links which subsequently strengthened with the Moscow Literary Circle, which included poets and writers from various movements, and the “Parnasus” association, which from 1899 was renamed “Wednesday” and included poets and writers of a non-symbolist tendency, among whom Bunin’s literary biography moved forward. Particular attention is paid in the article to the mutual influence between and textual echoes in Bunin’s poems and those of symbolists, which have to be taken into consideration in the scholarly annotations to the recently launched first complete edition of Bunin’s works.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135356440","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}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-88-109
Inna G. Matyushina
{"title":"Manuscript Variation in “Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks Konungs”","authors":"Inna G. Matyushina","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-88-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-88-109","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of the article is to refute the view that “The Lay of Hervör” (“Hervararkviða”) represents a late interpolation in the text of “The Saga of Hervör and King Heidrek the Wise” and to give arguments against the hypothesis that the female character of the lay is secondary in relation to the shield-maiden taking part in the Battle of the Goths and the Huns. The study of manuscript variation in the main surviving redactions of the saga (H: AM 544, U: R 715 and R: GKS 2845) sheds light on the structure of both lays and facilitates the identification of the roles of the two shield-maidens in the prose narrative of the saga and in the composition of the “Hervararkviða” and the poem on “The Battle of the Goths and the Huns”. The contextual analysis of “Hervararkviða” against the background of the saga prose and the mythological and heroic epic leads to the conclusion that parts of the female character’s dialogue with her father (her incantation and his prophesy) could go back to the hypothetical oral tradition of poetic dialogues with the dead (draugr), which is reflected in the lays of the Poetic Edda.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89288425","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}