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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:
THE IDEA OF THE CREATION OF THE NEW MAN IN THE EARLY USSR
- Lyubov Bugaeva. From the Editor
- Nadezhda Grigor’eva. The New Man by Valerian Muravyev: Between Philosophy and Literature
- Stanislav Petriashin. A “New Man” in the Ethnographic Museum: Between the Socialist Content and the National Form
- Olga Ilyukha. Soviet Dolls of the 1920s and 1930s in the Upbringing of the “New Child”
POETRY AND SINGING IN THE RUSSIAN NOVEL OF THE 19th CENTURY
INTERFACES OF CONTEMPORARY POETIC DISCOURSE
- Olga Sokolova. From the Compiler
- Olga Severskaya. Diary Poetry (Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian, Dominique Fourcade)
- Vladimir Feshchenko. Carla Harryman’s Grammaturgy: Interfaces of Dialogical Poetry
- Olga Sokolova. Transcoding in Contemporary Poetry: Visual and Audial Translatability
- Tatiana Tsvigun, Alexey Chernyakov. The Neural Poetry of Grammar and the Neural Grammar of Poetry
AVDOTYA PANAEVA ON HER OWN: SUBJECTIVITY, NARRATIVE, PLOTLINES
- Margarita Vaysman, Pavel Uspenskij , Andrey Fedotov. From the Editors
- Pavel Uspenskij, Andrey Fedotov. To Be a Woman in “Sovremennik”: Poetry and Truth in Avdotya Panaeva’s Fiction
- Margarita Vaysman. Avdotya Panaeva vs. Nikolai Stanitskii: Gender Ambivalence and Discussions about Realism in the Novel A Woman’s Lot (Zhenskaya dolya) (1862)
- Anastasia Plashinova. “Pathetic Mistakes of Women”: Plots of Eman- cipation in the Russian Adultery Short Prose of 1830s—1850s
POETOLOGICAL STUDIES
IN MEMORIAM: Dmitry Golynko-Volfson (9.12.1969—1.6.2023)
- Viktoria Popova (Vincenza). The Interlinear of a Spiritual Seance
- Aleksandr Skidan. The Guernica of Dmitry Golynko
- Sergei Finogin. Proletariat Aristocratism
- Vitaly Lekhtsier. The Day That Will Never End: On Dmitry Golynko’s Cycle Signs of the Time
- Dmitry Golynko-Volfson. The Poetry of Viktor Sosnora. New Depressives: The Millennial Generation in the Era of Digital Capitalism
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Feodor Nikolai. Nationalization of Memory, Academic Expertise, and Grassroots Commemoration Practices: Three Strategies of Memory Studies (Review)
- Tatyana Venediktova. The Secret of “Powerful Prose” Has Yet to Be Revealed (Review of the book Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers, transcript, 2021)
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. The Demolition Cow and the Guard Dog: On Ambiguities in Literature and Philology (Review of the books Poetik der Unverständlichkeit, Yvonne Al-Taie, Wilhelm Fink, 2021; “ins Sprach dunkle”: Theoriegeschichte der Unverständlichkeit 1870—1970, Felix Christen, Wilhelm Fink, 2021)
- Konstantin Lappo-Danilevsky. St. Petersburg’s Antique Studies: A Step Toward Self-Knowledge (Review of Slovar’ peterburgskikh antikovedov XIX — nachala XX veka, ed. by A.K. Gavrilov and others, Bibliotheca classica Petropolitana, 2021)
- Valery Vyugin. The First Book on the Russian Spy Thriller (Review of Duccio Colombo’s book The Soviet Spy Thriller: Writers, Power, and the Masses, 1938—2002, Peter Lang, 2022)
- Maria Baskina. “When Both We and Cinema Were Young” (Review of Luke Parker’s book Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of Exile, Cornell University Press, 2022)
- Aleksandr Sorochan. Subgenres and Schemes: The Sword, Sorcery, and Historical Poetics (Review of Brian Murphy’s book Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword and Sorcery, Pulp Hero Press, 2020)
- New Books
- Mikhail Sergeev, Grigory Vorobiev. Scientific Reference Books of the 16th Century and the Book Tradition: Forms and Functions of Bibliographical Information
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Anna Eroshenko. Ecology as the Periphery and Space of the Huma- nities. A Survey of the Summer School “Space in/for Ecological Humanities: A Rethinking of the Global Through the Study of Peri- pheries” (HSE University, A.V. Poletaev Institute of Historical and Theoretical Research; Tyumen State University, School for Environ- mental and Social Studies, 22—28 August 2022)
- Vera Milchina. All-Russian Scientific Conference “14th Metelinsky Readings ‘Text and Historical Reality’”, Intercultural Communication Section (Russian State University for the Humanities, 20—22 October 2022)
- Sanjar Akaev and others. International Conference “Poletaev Rea- dings—11. ‘Society of Late Socialism: Perspectives of Historical Understanding’” (HSE University, A.V. Poletaev Institute of Historical and Theoretical Research, 19—20 October 2022)