Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-72-85
I. S. Kadochnikova
{"title":"At the boundary. Tatiana Repina","authors":"I. S. Kadochnikova","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-72-85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-72-85","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the motifs, imagery, and plot structure of three poetic collections authored by Tatiana Repina, one of the remarkable poets of ‘the thirty-year-old generation:’ Monograph. Written by a Single Person [Monografiya. Pishet odin chelovek] (2013), Without Chapters [Bez glav] (2014), and Air Density [Plotnost vozdukha] (2018). In her detailed study of the plot structure and distinctive characteristics of Repina’s poetics, Kadochnikova emphasizes the concept of boundaries as being of principal importance for understanding Repina’s poetics. The concept is revealed through the problem of a geographical identity and the lyrical heroine’s gender ambivalence, the ‘childlike/adultlike’ dichotomy, and the motif of puppetry and theatricality. A selection exemplifying the ‘local’ (Izhevsk-based) text serves the critic as a starting point for interpretation of Repina’s lyrical poetry, which Kadochnikova expands to include poems devoted to St. Petersburg, the image of the ‘generation of the 1990s,’ and problems of contemporary poetry at large. The resulting study uses Repina’s works to address the issue of boundaries in modern poetry.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139864350","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-160-179
E. Tsimbaeva
{"title":"‘Far too much of contradiction’ [‘Protivorechiy ochen mnogo’]","authors":"E. Tsimbaeva","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-160-179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-160-179","url":null,"abstract":"Devoted to Pushkin’s novel in verse Eugene Onegin [Evgeny Onegin], the article is a sequel to the author’s previous article ‘What! From outback steppe villages…’ [‘Kak! Iz glushi stepnykh seleniy…’] (Voprosy Literatury, 2019, No. 5) on the same theme. The scholar sets out to reconstruct those facts of the protagonist’s and his relatives’ biography that can only be discovered by detailed historical analysis of the text in comparison with the historical and cultural realia of Pushkin’s days. Such in-depth analysis throws new light on the complicated relationships of the novel’s main characters, determined by a psychological as well as socio-cultural subtext that was immediately recognizable by Pushkin’s contemporaries, but which is lost on later generations. Based on her earlier studies of Russian Catholicism and the problems of the historical reconstruction of literary texts, E. Tsimbaeva proposes a tentative spiritual and intellectual portrait of Onegin’s mother, whom Pushkin never mentions directly. The scholar sees her goal in broadening the reader’s understanding of the poet’s original design as well as the stages of, and reasons for, subsequent alterations acknowledged by Pushkin himself in his mention of ‘contradictions’ in the final draft.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139865209","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-57-71
E. V. Sartakov
{"title":"Was Gogol a Slavophile writer? A view from Serbia","authors":"E. V. Sartakov","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-57-71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-57-71","url":null,"abstract":"The article is concerned with the Slavic question in Gogol’s journalism and that of the Russian Slavophiles as it was perceived in Serbia. The study was prompted by the author’s discovery of an article printed in the Serbian journal Ljetopis (1860) where Gogol is referred to as a Slavophile. This somewhat biased inclusion of Gogol into the circle of Khomyakov and the brothers Aksakov stemmed from the fact that his view of Slavic issues resembled that of the authors of Russkaya Beseda. Sartakov argues that Gogol decidedly avoided taking sides in the central dispute of the period — the rift between the Slavophiles and the Westernizers — and criticized extreme opinions expressed by both parties. According to Sartakov, Gogol’s ideological affinity with Khomyakov, the brothers Aksakov, and others proves that, rather than being influenced by their ideas, Gogol’s view on Slavic history had the same origins. To support his point, the scholar cites Gogol’s little-known sketch about the Slavs, in which the writer posits that they stood in profound civilizational contrast to their European counterparts, especially Germanic tribes.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139865391","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-13-34
K. Sultanov
{"title":"Unisolated locality, or A cultural universal in action","authors":"K. Sultanov","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-13-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-13-34","url":null,"abstract":"The author assumes that the former idea of the cultural universal implied the danger of unification for a national and cultural identity associated with something conventional, virtual, essentially spurious, and thus divorced from the national-literary discourse. The exaggerated identification of tradition and the universal blocked a further extension of the semantic space of literature. The article considers the mutually complementary nature of tradition, on the one hand, and novelty, singularity, and a consolidating supra-ethnic idea, on the other: to preserve itself, individuality needs communicativeness, whereas ‘the force of universality,’ according to Hegel, ‘contains particularity.’ The unique and individual qualities of each national literature suggest unisolated locality and, therefore, the universality of the particular. In the specific literary work (A. Kim’s prose) the article traces the author’s predisposition for a holistic worldview that combines a national mode and a universalization paradigm.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139804043","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203
M. V. Markova
{"title":"Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction","authors":"M. V. Markova","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203","url":null,"abstract":"The review discusses a volume of scholarly articles edited by Samantha Rayner and Kim Wilkins that sets out to present a comprehensive body of research into the oeuvre of the English novelist Georgette Heyer. The book comprises several sections: gender, genre, sources, and circulation and reception. Heyer is the renowned founder of Regency romance, whose work is noted for exceptional attention to historical facts and reconstruction of the aristocratic slang of the period. Her novels, however, remained largely ignored by scholars. The volume’s editors succeed in producing an invaluable compilation enriching the studies of 1920s English genre literature by considering Heyer’s work in the context of post-war culture, with its heightened interest in the Napoleonic era, as well as in relation to literary tradition, especially Jane Austen’s works, but also referencing adventure novels of Heyer’s older contemporaries Baroness Orczy and Rafael Sabatini.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139862722","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-86-97
A. Nuzhdina
{"title":"From Christmas [Rozhdestvo] to Ariel’s Message [Soobshchenie Arielya]","authors":"A. Nuzhdina","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-86-97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-86-97","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the poetic evolution of the contemporary author Polina Barskova. Nuzhdina follows the logic of Barskova’s poetic experimentation: from her early works written in the 1990s–2000s and inspired by the then-fashionable postmodernist intertextuality to the present-day verse marked by Barskova’s engagement with other, non-poetic new genres. Particularly important are her historical essays, such as The Seventh Alkali [Sedmaya shchyoloch], a book concerned with the distinguishing features of the poetry written in the besieged Leningrad in the 1940s, or her article in the collection of fiction and literary criticism entitled After the Siege [Blokadnye posle], which she also prepared for publication. The matter of genre becomes prominent in Nuzhdina’s analysis: the scholar argues that, following her beginnings in the tradition of intertextuality, typical of the period, Barskova, as early as in the 2010s, went on to master a specific genre of a ‘poetic archive,’ evidenced both in her poetry and historical research. Her poetic texts and essays share a number of characteristics: a diversity of ‘disguises’ and voices, a focus on documentary accuracy, and an ‘uninterrupted alternation’ of narrative and lyrical scenes.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139865060","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-72-85
I. S. Kadochnikova
{"title":"At the boundary. Tatiana Repina","authors":"I. S. Kadochnikova","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-72-85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-72-85","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the motifs, imagery, and plot structure of three poetic collections authored by Tatiana Repina, one of the remarkable poets of ‘the thirty-year-old generation:’ Monograph. Written by a Single Person [Monografiya. Pishet odin chelovek] (2013), Without Chapters [Bez glav] (2014), and Air Density [Plotnost vozdukha] (2018). In her detailed study of the plot structure and distinctive characteristics of Repina’s poetics, Kadochnikova emphasizes the concept of boundaries as being of principal importance for understanding Repina’s poetics. The concept is revealed through the problem of a geographical identity and the lyrical heroine’s gender ambivalence, the ‘childlike/adultlike’ dichotomy, and the motif of puppetry and theatricality. A selection exemplifying the ‘local’ (Izhevsk-based) text serves the critic as a starting point for interpretation of Repina’s lyrical poetry, which Kadochnikova expands to include poems devoted to St. Petersburg, the image of the ‘generation of the 1990s,’ and problems of contemporary poetry at large. The resulting study uses Repina’s works to address the issue of boundaries in modern poetry.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139804481","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-98-115
V. A. Razumov
{"title":"Lyrical prayer poetry by priest poets. K. Kravtsov’s and S. Kruglov’s poetic prayers","authors":"V. A. Razumov","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-98-115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-98-115","url":null,"abstract":"The article undertakes a comparative study of the lyrical prayer poetry authored by K. Kravtsov and S. Kruglov, both ordained priests as well as poets and each offering a personal interpretation of the canon of prayer, transforming it into a unique poetic genre. Going into the history of the phenomenon, V. Razumov provides a classification of the prayer genres proper, noting that the diversity of prayers can be grouped into five principal types: invective, supplication (including intercession on somebody’s behalf), penitence, thanksgiving, and praise. Those are the prayer intentions explored in Kruglov’s and Kravtsov’s poetry, with the addition of elements typical of contemporary as well as folk poetry (a stream of consciousness, a counting rhyme, intertextual references, a lyrical hero in a particular role, a civically-minded lyrical subject, etc.). Razumov finds that Kruglov extends the limits of the genre convention, whereas Kravtsov appears to transcend them. This difference notwithstanding, both poets write at the confluence of literary and liturgical traditions and undoubtedly enrich the tuning and intonation of modern poetry.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139865536","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-116-146
E. Y. Vinogradova
{"title":"Text gravitation, or Once more about A. Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter [Kapitanskaya dochka] and W. Scott’s novels","authors":"E. Y. Vinogradova","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-116-146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-116-146","url":null,"abstract":"Walter Scott’s Rob Roy and Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter [Kapitanskaya dochka], similar in plot, could not be more different in speech organization. Pushkin’s speech genre is unique as a lightly gravitating text: short and verb-dominated sentences, compressed action, and a fast-paced narration that avoids lengthy descriptions of material objects. The implied reader’s role in both authors’ novels also differs. While Scott’s reader experiences the events in progress, Pushkin’s ‘incomplete present’ (Bakhtin) does not take shape. The reader of The Captain’s Daughter does not live the time through with its characters but uses their analytical skill to relate symmetrical episodes and images. The light gravitation of the text prevents the reader from immersing themselves into the novel’s progress, but allows to conceptualize the philosophy of history. Part of the article is dedicated to French translations of English novels in Pushkin’s days. The statistical data of the average sentence length in Pushkin’s works and other writers’ output demonstrates that The Captain’s Daughter holds a truly unique place.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139865778","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}
Voprosy LiteraturyPub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-98-115
V. A. Razumov
{"title":"Lyrical prayer poetry by priest poets. K. Kravtsov’s and S. Kruglov’s poetic prayers","authors":"V. A. Razumov","doi":"10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-98-115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-98-115","url":null,"abstract":"The article undertakes a comparative study of the lyrical prayer poetry authored by K. Kravtsov and S. Kruglov, both ordained priests as well as poets and each offering a personal interpretation of the canon of prayer, transforming it into a unique poetic genre. Going into the history of the phenomenon, V. Razumov provides a classification of the prayer genres proper, noting that the diversity of prayers can be grouped into five principal types: invective, supplication (including intercession on somebody’s behalf), penitence, thanksgiving, and praise. Those are the prayer intentions explored in Kruglov’s and Kravtsov’s poetry, with the addition of elements typical of contemporary as well as folk poetry (a stream of consciousness, a counting rhyme, intertextual references, a lyrical hero in a particular role, a civically-minded lyrical subject, etc.). Razumov finds that Kruglov extends the limits of the genre convention, whereas Kravtsov appears to transcend them. This difference notwithstanding, both poets write at the confluence of literary and liturgical traditions and undoubtedly enrich the tuning and intonation of modern poetry.","PeriodicalId":52245,"journal":{"name":"Voprosy Literatury","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139805810","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}