Summer School on the Russian Literature. 2016.
Vol. 12. № 4

The article deals with analysis of the motive of gambling not only as traditionally mythological point of view but especially as economic metaphor, which represents tendencies of socio-economic development of the Russian Empire before and after The abolition of serfdom. The material for analysis is the novel „July“ was written by A. V. Druzhinin in 1848, time of stagnancy, and „The Gambler“ was written by F. M. Dostoevskii in period of history which is characterized as period of economic development.

Keywords: economic metaphor, gambling, Dostoevskii, Druzhinin, „The Gambler”, „July“.

Ulyana Bashko

Gambling as an economic metaphor (using the example of „July“ by A. V. Druzhinin and „The Gambler“ by F. M. Dostoevskii)

The article examines the influence of the philosophy of A. Schopenhauer in I. S. Turgenev’s later works, for example: „The Song of Triumphant Love“ and „Klara Milich“. The article identifies the plot motives that realize Schopenhauer’s philosophical concept of mystical love, compares the plot motives of two novels and describes the plot invariant that implements the ideas of German philosopher based on the analysis.

Keywords: philosophical concept of love, the complex of Eros/Thanatos, the will of the genus, an invariant of the plot, the plot motive.

Ksenia Vysokovich

Turgenev and Schopenhauer

The article treats the Anacreontics of Russian poet Mikhail M. Kheraskov (1733–1807) and investigates the interpretation proposed by Grigorij A. Gukovskij in his paper „About the Russian Anacreontic Ode“ (1927). Special attention is devoted to the poetics and metrical pattern of Russian Anacreontic poetry in the 18th century and to the Russian and European context of Kheraskov’s work in this genre.

Keywords: 18th Century, Russian Literature, Anacreontics, Reception of Antiquity, Poetry and Poetics, Alexander Sumarokov, Mikhail Kheraskov.

Konstantin Lappo-Danilevsky

Anacreontic odes by M. M. Kheraskov

The paper presents the results of a series of interviews with 14 modern Russian poets. The Interview Questions are grouped around the theme of „The Poet and the computer“.

Keywords: contemporary Russian poetry, writing technique, computer.

Oleg Lekmanov

„Rambler answers all questions“, or a modern Russian poet in front of the computer: 14 options

An article is dedicated to the source of the essay by N. S. Leskov „Sentimental holiness“. It is a reply to a „Russian worker“ magazine voiced on a meeting of a special department of Scientific committee in Ministry of Education. The comparison of texts lets to compare Leskov-writer and Leskov-clerk. Here is a text of his reply.

Keywords: N. S. Leskov, „Sentimental holiness“, redstockism, „Russian worker“, Scientific committee in Ministry of Education.

Olga Makarevich

The „Russian Worker“ Magazine and N.S. Leskov: towards the History of Russian Redstockism

In their manifestoes, Russian avant-gardists claimed to be writing from a clean slate while in their works they repeatedly played with the motif of murdering Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy. But are the two topoi compatible? The answer is no. Symbolic execution of literary father figures practised first by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov and then by Daniil Kharms in his „Dream of Two Swarthy Ladies“ is clear evidence of the avant-gardists’ taking into account the existing literary tradition. Moreover, by means of this „murderous plot“ they tried to change the balance of literary power to their advantage. Humiliating and ridiculing Pushkin, Tolstoy and „throwing [them] into [the abyss] from the steamship of modernity“ was the avant-gardists’ way of appropriating the classics’ key positions in the field of literature.

Keywords: avant-garde, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Daniil Kharms, Cubo-futurist manifestoes, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, symbolic murder of father figure.

Lada Panova

The avant-garde complex of „imaginary orphanhood“: symbolic execution of paternal figures

The article is devoted to the identity in the Anna Gorenko’s lyrics. The poet tries to identify herself through the body, gender, name, metamorphosis, social status.

Keywords: Anna Gorenko, identity, generation 90, poetry.

Andrey Romanov

The problem of self-identification in the lyrics of Anna Gorenko