Scando-Slavica最新文献

{"title":"Love’s Labour’s Lost, or A Russian Priest, Esperantist and Utopist in the Early 20 c. Japan","authors":"Evgeny S. Steiner","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2022.2053578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2053578","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Japan has always occupied a special place in the Russian mindscape. From the beginning of the first contacts and for the subsequent century and a half, the invariable pattern of reaction to Japan was the oscillation between rapturous expectations and a cold shower of encounters. This article offers an analysis of this paradigm of perception and a deconstruction of certain cultural and psychological traits of Russian visitors to Japan or residents of that country. Under scrutiny are their attitudes when confronted with the radical notion of otherness. Special emphasis is put on what impeded and what facilitated the intercultural dialogue. The article includes a case study which focuses on the voluminous memoirs (based on diaries) of the priest Innokentij Seryšev, who spent two and a half years in Japan in the late Taishō era (1920–1922). The main conclusion is that the invariant pattern of swinging perception of Japan from rhapsodic to threnodic, was influenced by objective causes. One of the principal reasons for this is the underestimation of the level of psychological and cultural differences between the Russians and the Japanese. Many cultural traits that looked agreeable were perceived by Seryšev without due context and a proper understanding of the foreign national and cultural matrix and without realizing his own limits in interpretation. These peculiarities of perception were (and sometimes still are) quite similar for many generations of Russian visitors/residents to/of Japan.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"68 1","pages":"96 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42305996","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":"Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann","authors":"I. Belobrovtseva","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994003","url":null,"abstract":"Далеко не всякое сравнение хромает, как утверждает латинская поговорка. Скорее оно побуждает посмотреть на сравниваемые величины, предметы, явления «свежим глазом» и разглядеть в них то, что не замечалось ранее. Так и с этой книгой: читая, ловишь себя на мысли: странно, что до сих пор никому не пришло в голову сопоставить романы Михаила Булгакова и Томаса Манна: как справедливо отмечает автор, «оба романа представляют собой уникальные литературные феномены в современной им культуре. И то, что сказано об одном, часто оказывается верным и для другого» (118). Они написаны примерно в одно время, и в обоих налицо «релятивизация канонических библейских текстов» (76). Отличает их и чисто литературная, стратегическая задача: оба рефлексируют над условиями и динамикой нарративной продукции и ролью нарраторов в этом креативном процессе (76).","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"287 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43671112","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":"“My Dear, Close and Distant Friend”: Nina Berberova’s Letters to Sergej Rittenberg (1947–1975)","authors":"Manfred Schruba","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994004","url":null,"abstract":"the German). When Lotman wrote his Puškin biography, such a talent had particular historical poignancy, as had the elusive qualities of Puškin’s personality and oeuvre for Tynjanov and Tertz. Erik Egeberg’s Aleksandr Puškin: Russlands store dikter takes its readers through Puškin’s life and writings with a light touch, and he certainly stirs interest in reading Puškin himself. It is Egeberg’s merit that he does not reduce Puškin to easy relatability, as happened with Dostoevskij’s Brothers Karamazov during a long-running reading programme on Norwegian national radio (“Salongens lesesirkel” NRK P2) in 2019–2020. One may hope that Egeberg, but also Tynjanov, Lotman and Tertz, fall into the hands of an enterprising radio host before long. Puškin’s mercurial life and works appear to be made for it.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"296 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41850847","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":"Aleksandr Puškin: Russlands store dikter","authors":"Karin Kukkonen","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994005","url":null,"abstract":"эмигрантского романа». Вестник Томского государственного университета 414: 20–28. Яновски Э. 2019. «Филосемитский» роман Томаса Манна и его еврейские источники. – https://news.jeps.ru/mneniya/tomas-mann-evrejskie-istochniki-romana-iosif-i-ego-bratya. html (дата просмотра 31.08.2021). Levenson Alan. 1998. “Christian Author, Jewish Book? Methods and Sources in Thomas Mann’s Joseph.” The German Quarterly 71 (2):166–78.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"294 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45597429","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":"The Fury’s Revenge: An Ecofeminist Reading of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead","authors":"Ellen Mortensen","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this reading of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the theme of revenge is explored, as it relates to the protagonist’s ecofeminist revolt against what she considers to be a male-dominated society, which disregards human and animal life in its pursuit of power and profit. The novel is investigated through an analysis of plot structure and character analysis, and reveals how Janina Duszejko, an irate elderly lady – a former bridge engineer, now English teacher, Blake translator and hobby astrologer – constantly appears in the thick of things. By the twists and turns of events, be they caused by human will, animal agency or by planetary constellations, Tokarczuk lets mythical figurations appear, such as the Fury and the Wolf, whereby the destructive powers of nature are unleashed. By interpreting the subtle hints planted throughout the narrative, a final solution to the crime mystery is uncovered.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"227 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46594378","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":"Путеводитель как форма современной русской транскультурной прозы: прагматика и поэтика","authors":"Anna Ljunggren","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the use of the guidebook as a narrative form in the work of a number of “displaced” Russian authors (Joseph Brodsky, Andreï Makine, Michail Šiškin). In literary fiction, the guidebook is a documentary-literary hybrid inscribed into the wider frame of postmodernism. It is a fusion of a document with its informative function, autobiography and historiosophic essay. Literary works written in this form share some features: they all display a shift in focus from space to time, putting strong emphasis on history and presenting a “panoramic” or “mosaic” picture of it. This panoramic view increases the distance to the spatial environments seen from afar and – as in Brodsky’s case – undermines the very spatial reality. The paper argues that the use of the guidebook as a narrative form by transcultural authors makes transcultural writing itself a fusion of the pragmatic and the aesthetic, and that its specificity lies exactly in this blend.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"187 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43532779","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":"Гетеротопии в художественном мире Марины Цветаевой (на материале стихотворных циклов «Ахматовой» и «Стихи к Блоку»)","authors":"Yulia Pasko","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1993996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1993996","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the study of Marina Cvetaeva’s poetic cycles “Achmatova” and “Poems for Blok” and takes as a point of departure Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. I use the characteristics of heterotopia suggested by the French thinker as an instrument for analysing the spatial organization of poetic texts, considering it separately in each cycle, but also pointing to similarities and differences in the dedications to the two poets. The concept of heterotopia helps reveal important features of space in the poetic cycles, to analyse the cycles’ system of spatial coordinates and to explore the concept of border in the poetic text.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"247 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44264974","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":"The Prehistory of the Proto-Slavic Abstract Suffix *-ostь and its Baltic Congeners","authors":"Marek Majer","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study deals with the origin of the Proto-Slavic adjective abstract suffix *-ostь. Firstly, the existing proposals are systematized and evaluated. It is concluded that the most promising explanation is the one according to which the suffix *-ostь was metanalyzed from regular abstract nouns in *-ь (*zelenь -i ‘the color green’ ← *zelenъ ‘green’) built to an old class of adjectives in *-ostъ < *-osto-, not directly preserved but paralleled in other Indo-European languages (Latin angustus ‘narrow’). The article proceeds to provide a number of observations corroborating and extending this theory. Evidence for the ‘missing link’, i.e. the class of adjectives in *-ostъ, is sought in Old Polish personal names of the type Miłost and in the inferred basis of derivatives parallel to *-ostь, such as the noun *starosta. Furthermore, the Baltic evidence is engaged seriously: in line with recent research, Lithuanian -astis must be treated as cognate – and not borrowing – of Slavic *-ostь, which impacts the diachronic explanation. It is argued that formations such as Lithuanian abstracts in -asta(s) may reflect traces of a class of adjectives in *-asta- < *-osto- as well. The abstract in *-asti- can be considered as yet another meaningful innovation of Proto-Balto-Slavic.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"203 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45120976","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":"From the editor","authors":"Per Ambrosiani","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1994182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1994182","url":null,"abstract":"The present issue of Scando-Slavica offers readers seven articles and three book reviews. The topics addressed by the contributors include contemporary Russian transcultural prose, works by Aleksandr Puškin, Marina Cvetaeva, and Olga Tokarczuk, as well as contemporary Macedonian grammar, Slavic historical grammar and Balto-Slavic accentology. Andrey E. Bochkarev’s article brings a close reading of Aleksandr Puškin’s short story Metel′ (The Snowstorm), showing how a small detail, the motto Ut duo unum componant, plays an important role in the narrative. Eleni Bužarovska discusses the reintroduction in standard Macedonian of the potential mood marker bi-. The spread of the bipatterns, which, it is argued, entered the Macedonian conditional system under the influence of neighboring Slavic languages, is investigated through the analysis of examples from literary works from different periods. Anna Ljunggren discusses contemporary Russian literary guidebooks as an important hybrid genre with simultaneously informative, autobiographical and historiosophic functions. By analysing works by Joseph Brodsky, Andreï Makine and Michail Šiškin, Ljunggren shows how transcultural writing can include a particular fusion of pragmatic and aesthetic aspects. Marek Majer analyses the origin of the Proto-Slavic abstract suffix *-ostь, proposing a reconstruction of a class of adjectives in *-ostъ (< *-osto-), which has not been directly preserved as such but which has parallels in other Indo-European languages. Ellen Mortensen explores the theme of revenge in Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. The plot structure and the characters are analysed from an ecofeminist perspective, showing how the powers of nature play a crucial role in the development of the story. Yulia Pasko studies Marina Cvetaeva’s poetic cycles Achmatova and Poems for Blok, analysing the spatial organisation of the texts through Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia as interpreted by Rainer Warning. Vytautas Rinkevičius’ contribution to the ongoing discussion of the origin of the Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms reveals how the Lithuanian dialectal Žemaitian accent retraction presents important typological parallels to proposed reconstructions of early Baltic and Slavic accent developments.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"157 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46325603","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":"The Spread of Potential Mood Marking in Conditionals in Standard Macedonian","authors":"E. Bužarovska","doi":"10.1080/00806765.2021.1993999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2021.1993999","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper discusses the consequences of the reintroduction of the potential mood marker bi-construction into the system of conditional marking in standard Macedonian. This marker had been almost lost from the Balkanized conditional patterns in Macedonian dialects which were based on the opposition hypothetical vs. counterfactual. The counterfactual was realized by the isomorphic Balkan conditional type: subjunctive mood in the protasis and a construction based on the future marker ḱe + imperfect verb in the apodosis. Under the influence of the neighboring Slavic languages the bi-construction reentered the conditional system penetrating into existing patterns and creating new ones. The spread of the bi-patterns is confirmed by the results of the quantitative analysis of the examples from literary works belonging to different periods. It is highly possible that this “comeback” was enabled by the imported conditional patterns with koga ‘when’ and dokolku ‘in case/if’ realized in potential mood. The main hypothesis is that the borrowed conditional patterns enriched the system of conditional marking in Macedonian causing its partial realignment. Although semantically overlapping with the Balkan conditional pattern, these two patterns typically code present and future unrealizable situations, often endowed with special discourse functions.","PeriodicalId":41301,"journal":{"name":"Scando-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"169 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45422443","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}