Summer School on the Russian Literature. 2015.
Vol. 11. № 4

The article provides analysis of some author methods of using Platonov’s text, basing on the poems by V.Sharov and V.Sorokin. These authors are actualizing the text, paying attention to the different sides of pre-text (the content and the form). V.Sharov is adding up to the meaning of it, while V.Sorokin is saving Platonov’s text from reader’s cliched understanding by deconstructing it.

Keywords: A. Platonov, Platonov’s text, V. Sharov, V. Sorokin, deconstruction, demythologization, signifier, denotation.

Anastasia Fisun

Platonov as the signified and the signifier
(Platonic text in the novels „Resurrection Lazarus“ by V. Sharov and „Blue Fat“ by V. Sorokin)

The article is dedicated to three different editions of Viktor Shklovsky’s novel „Zoo, or Letters Not about Love“: those of 1923, 1924, and 1964. Special attention is paid to the latest author’s version of this text conceived as a novel of a new type. This latest version uncovers opportunities of the first (more autobiographical), and the second (more fictional) editions of the novel.

Keywords: Viktor Shklovsky, Russian literature of 1920s, Russian émigré literature, genre, autobiography, memoirs, epistolary novel, baring the device.

Daria Apakhonchich

The edition of the novel by V. B. Shklovsky „Zoo, or Letters Not about Love“ (1964)
The problem of the genre of the work

The article presents poetological model of „art“ concept which lies at the centre of Bella Akhmadulina lyric poetry. Poet’s artistic thinking and imagery system main features considered in the article.

Keywords: Bella Akhmadulina, poetology, art, motive structure, concept, concept field model.

Daria Bashkaikina

The motivational structure of the concept of „art“ in the poetry of B. Akhmadulina

The paper deals with the Russian National Corpus (the RNC) as a research tool in the history and study of literature and poetic. A brief overview of its usage in papers by different authors is presented.

Keywords: corpus lingustics, poetics, verse studies, history of literature.

Dmitry Sichinava

The Russian National Corpus in the literary studies: A brief overview

The article discusses the editorial work of the poet Nikolay Oleynikov.

Key words: Children’s literature, OBERIU, Nikolay Oleynikov.

Oleg Lekmanov

Nikolay Oleynikov – editor