{"title":"The Works of Lidiia Charskaia in the Eyes of Contemporary Critics","authors":"V. Golovin","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Relying on a wide range of literary history sources covering the first third of the twentieth century, especially publications in pedagogical and literary periodicals, this article examines the reception Russian critics gave to one of the most popular female Russian children’s writers, Lidiia Charskaia. Attitudes of prerevolutionary and Soviet critics toward Charskaia’s works are compared, and an analysis is offered of the main principles and techniques applied in criticism of children’s literature.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"170 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853428","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45263203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Warming Someone’s Soul with Your Own Hands”: Ruvim Fraerman’s Children’s Prose and the Legacy of Russian Modernism","authors":"Maria Maiofis","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In her article, Maria Maiofis argues that Ruvim Fraerman’s 1939 work Wild Dog Dingo, Or a Story of First Love [Dikaia sobaka Dingo, ili Povest’ o pervoi liubvi] is not primarily intended as a story of adolescent love but rather of the vicissitudes of a teenaged girl’s relationship with her divorced parents. Fraerman’s treatment of adolescent psychology and the difficult path into adulthood reflects the legacy of Russian modernist prose and aspects of psychoanalytic theory, which he may have become familiar with firsthand in the 1910s or 1920s or indirectly through Russian modernist prose.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"194 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853429","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47257012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Women Writers and Girl Heroes","authors":"Sibelan E. S. Forrester","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2020.1859911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2020.1859911","url":null,"abstract":"Children’s literature, which became a strong and valuable part of the Soviet literary system, has become still more lively and interesting in the last two or three decades. One consequence of this ...","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"139 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2020.1859911","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45857593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aleksandra Brushtein’s Trilogy The Road Goes into the Distance: History, Intention, Realization","authors":"M. Gelfond","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853430","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between actual historical events and the way they are interpreted in Aleksandra Brushtein’s autobiographical trilogy The Road Goes into the Distance [Doroga ukhodit v dal’], as well as the ‘shift of intention’ the trilogy represents from the diary entries of twelve-year-old Sasha Vygodskaia to her finalized text. This analysis is based on materials from Brushtein’s personal archive and the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. This is the first time these documents have been put to scholarly use.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"202 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853430","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47872983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Woman Question in Russian Children’s Literature","authors":"O. Bukhina","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853425","url":null,"abstract":"Surprising as it might seem, in Russia, the history of children’s books written by women began with an empress: Catherine the Great was the first woman we know of to pen Russian-language literature for children. The tsaritsa was moved by maternal (or rather grandmotherly) concern for the moral education of her grandsons, for whom she wrote two fairy stories: “The Tale of Tsarevich Khlor” [Skazka o tsareviche Khlore] (1781) and “The Tale of Tsarevich Fevei” [Skazka o tsareviche Fevee] (1783). They abound in sage counsel on moral duty, reason, honesty, truth, and other elevated topics (Hellman, 2013: p. 9). It was a matter of mere decades before Russia had woman writers for whom children’s literature was a calling and profession. Were their tales, stories, and poems any different from those that men were writing for children? And what were their thoughts about the kind of literature that should be written for children, and, in particular, for girls? This issue of Russian Studies in Literature opens with an article by Marina Kostiukhina, an associate professor in the children’s literature department of the Herzen State Pedagogical University. Kostiukhina takes us to the first glimmers of feminism in Russian children’s literature. The “heroine” of this story is the writer Aleksandra Ishimova, one of Russia’s first and most successful female publishers of children’s literature. Examining her career and writings, Kostiukhina explores the question: Would we be justified in calling Ishimova Russia’s first feminist and, if so, what particular goals was she pursuing? Ishimova’s views, which were utterly traditional yet innovative in their orientation toward female community and practical advice, stood in","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"140 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44545825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the Cradle of Feminism in Children’s Literature (Arguments and Resentments)","authors":"Marina Kostiukhina","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853426","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines Russian feminist thought in publications for girls from the second half of the nineteenth century and the polemic that the female publisher of the girls’ magazines Little Star [Zvezdochka] (1842–1863) and Rays of Light [Luchi] (1850–1863), A.O. Ishimova, engaged in with radical feminists. The debate between Ishimova and the editors of the girls’ magazine Dawn [Rassvet] reflected the spectrum of opinion surrounding the woman question at the time.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"147 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853426","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42638582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminism in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature, or How to Translate the Word Avtorka into English*","authors":"E. Asonova, O. Bukhina","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is devoted to contemporary children’s literature and the role played in it by women writers, publishers, translators, illustrators, researchers, educators, and librarians. Asonova and Bukhina emphasize the role of the maternal principle both in women’s writing and in the development of the contemporary publishing process and explore the feminist aspects of the many fraught issues raised within the framework of the genre of social realism in contemporary children’s writing. Asonova and Bukhina also explore the influence of translated children’s literature on Russian books for kids and teens published in the last decade and note the importance of the “high bar” set by translated literature. Authors of the article stress the significance of girl protagonists in teens’ literature as well as of variety of the deep psychological issues expressed with the help of these characters. Authors of the article discussed a role of picture books and non-fiction publications in the development of contemporary Russian writing for children.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"233 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47017619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“My Friend, Ol’ga”: On Rereading V. Kiselev’s Novel The Girl and the Bird Plane","authors":"Irina Savkina","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853432","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines Vladimir Kiselev’s young-adult novel, The Girl and the Bird Plane [Devochka i ptitselet], written in 1966, toward the end of the Thaw. While critics in the late 1960s and the screenwriters for the novel’s film version (The Transitional Age [Perekhodnyi vozrast], 1968, directed by Richard Viktorov) interpreted the work as centering on the complex relationships existing between generations, a contemporary rereading based on categories developed within the framework of gender studies brings the novel’s exploration of Soviet-era sex-role conflicts into sharp relief.","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"218 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43694030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aleksandra Annenskaia, Mariia Pozharova, and Lidiia Charskaia","authors":"E. Putilova","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1853427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853427","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Evgeniia Putilova’s archival-biographical research into the history of children’s literature represents a unique contribution to that field. This article, slightly abridged in translation, brings together three entries she wrote for the encyclopedia Literary St. Petersburg: The Twentieth Century [Literaturnyi Sankt-Peterburg: XX vek]: on Aleksandra Annenskaia, Mariia Pozharova, and Lidiia Charskaia. She felt these were three of her best entries for the encyclopedia, which was compiled by members of St. Petersburg University’s School of Philology in 2011. An ebook of the encyclopedia is currently being prepared","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"156 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1853427","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45913985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Intertext of Dark Avenues: How the Novella Dissolved in the Later Works of Ivan Bunin","authors":"E. Ponomarev","doi":"10.1080/10611975.2019.1740050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611975.2019.1740050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55621,"journal":{"name":"RUSSIAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611975.2019.1740050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49349970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}