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The New Literary Observer was launched in 1992 as the first post-Soviet journal devoted to literature. Since its inception, the journal has become the leading Russian interdisciplinary publication dedicated to Russian culture in a global context.
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
The task of NLO is to study and elucidate contemporary culture, as well as to promote Russian cultural theory in the international intellectual community.
The journal includes material of the following nature:
- articles on the problems, or the history, of the liberal arts and sciences;
- articles devoted to various aspects of the cultural history of Russia and Western Europe;
- unique archive documents (literary texts, letters, memoirs);
- articles, reviews, interviews and essays on issues of contemporary literature;
- thorough bibliographies of works of fiction and the liberal arts and sciences;
- chronicles of scientific and creative life.
contents:
THROUGH TEARS: RUSSIAN EMOTIONAL CULTURE
- Konstantin А. Bogdanov. From the Compiler
- Konstantin А. Bogdanov. “A Girl Was Crying in the Park” by Igor Severyanin as a Beautiful Poem
- Vera Polishchuk. “Storm of Sobs”: Motif of Tears in V. Nabokov’s Poetics
- Maria А. Aleksandrova. “Soldier’s Tear” in Soviet-Era Culture
- Aleksandr Kobrinsky. “Komsomol Girl’s Tear”: Venedikt Erofeev’s Semiotic Cocktail
- Yaroslava Zakharova. Prigov: “The New UNsentimentality”
HISTORY OF RUSSIAN SPIRITISM
- Ksenia Butuzova, Elena Glukhovskaya. From the Compilers
- Vladislav Razdyakonov. Religious Anthropology of Russian Spiritualism of the Late 19th — Early 20th Century
- Anastasia Maklakova. The Testament of Spirits: Eschatological Spiritualism in Russia at the Turn of the 20th Century
- Ilya Vinitsky. Russian Glubdubdrib: False Dimitry’s Shade and Russian Historical Imagination in the Age of Realism
- Julia Mannherz. Russian Spiritualism and its Silent Mediums (transl. from English by Ksenia Butuzova)
- Ksenia Butuzova. Rebuses in the Visual Culture of Russian Spiritualism
LITERATURE OUTSIDE OF ITSELF: THE INFILTRATION OF WORDS INTO CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC MEDIA
- Ivan Delazari, Dmitry Tokarev. From the Editors
- Ksenia Dergunova, Vasilisa Popova. Technology as Mediator and Partner in the Creation of Theatrical Illusions: Mediality in the Theaters of Tolstoy, Pirandello, and BBC One
- Ivan Delazari, Dmitry Tokarev. Video and Audio: Samuel Beckett’s Late Teleplays
- Artyom Ryzhkov, Sofya Tkachuk. The Metaliterary in Russian Rap of the 2010s: Towards a Medial Autonomy
NOTES AND EXCERPTS
READINGS
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
IN MEMORIAM: ALEKSANDR BELOUSOV (1946—2023)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Natalia Polosina. Hispanist Ventriloquist: The Trauma of Modernity and the Experience of Culturological Therapy (Review of Andrew Ginger’s book Instead of Modernity: The Western Canon and the Incorporation of the Hispanic (c. 1850—75), Manchester University Press, 2020)
- Sergey Ogudov. On the Fundamentals of Film Narrative (Review of Warren Buckland’s book Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling, Wallflower Press, 2021)
- Galina Zalomkina. The Third Pole of Psychoanalysis (Review of Maria Zalambani’s book Letteratura e psicoanalisi in Russia all’alba del XX secolo, Firenze University Press, 2022)
- Kirill Zubkov. The History of Russian Literature of the Long 19th Century as a History of Reading (Review of the book Reading Russia: A History of Reading in Modern Russia, Vol. 2, ed. by D. Rebeccini and R. Vassena, Ledizioni, 2020)
- Viktor Dimitriev. Notes from Underground: Reading, Translation, Interpretation (Review of the book “Zapiski iz podpol’ya” F.M. Dostoevskogo v kul’ture Evropy i Ameriki; ed. by E.D. Galtsova; Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences; 2021)
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CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Yaroslava Zakharova. “Through Tears: Russian Emotional Culture” International Conference (Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), RAS; New Literary Observer, 25—26 November 2022)
- Anna Sinitskaya. The 20th Pyrrhic Readings: Omission: The Interpretation of Cultural Codes (Laboratory for Historical, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Saratov, 30 June — 2 July 2022)
- Vera Milchina. Russian Scientific Conference “(Auto)biographical Sorrow: Emotions in Personal Narratives and Research Practices of the 16th—21st Centuries” (School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 30 September — 1 October 2022)
- Tatyana Skulacheva, Vera Polilova, Vera Milchina. International Academic Conference “16th Gasparov Readings” (Institute of Higher Studies in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities, 15—18 April, 24 September 2022)
- Abram Reitblat. Letter to the Editor