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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:
BELLES–LETTRES
RHETORIC TODAY: FROM DECADENCE TO RENAISSANCE (ASPECTS OF THEORY)
- Valery Vyugin. From the Compiler
- Sergey Zenkin. A Rhetoric of Reading (From the History of 20th Century Academic Ideas)
- Elena Lisanyuk. “I Write to You... And Freeze with Fear”, or Sergey Povarnin’s Rhetoric of Dispute in the Evolution of the Theory of Argumentation
- Nikolay Poselyagin. The Climax of Rhetoric: “Post-Truth” as a Rhetorical Strategy and a Challenge of Reality
- Valery Vyugin. Against Narratology (On One Technique of Reading)
RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE MID-19TH CENTURY AND THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY
- Alexey Vdovin, Ilya Kliger, Kirill Ospovat, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim. From the Compilers
- Kirill Ospovat. The Poetry of Democracy: Poetic Language and the Peasant Political Imagination in Savva Purlevskii’s “News about Russia” (1849) and “Memoirs”
- Alexey Vdovin. The Devilish Temptation of a Cab Driver: The Gene alogy and Sociology of a Popular Literary Plot
- Ilya Kliger. Social Imaginary in Russian Realist Fiction: The Case of Pisemsky’s One Thousand Souls
- Helen Stuhr-Rommereim. Constructing and Deconstructing a New View of the Masses: Pseudo-autobiographical Narratives of the Raznochintsy Realists (authorized transl. from English by Alexey Vdovin)
LEO TOLSTOY AND COLONIALISM. DISCUSSION
- Edyta Bojanowska. Was Tolstoi a Colonial Landlord? The Dilemmas of Private Property and Settler Colonialism on the Bashkir Steppe (authorized transl. from English by Elizaveta Timofeeva)
- Mikhail Dolbilov. Tolstoy Land Issue and the Peasant Community
- Julia Krasnoselskaya. Buying Land: A Way to Enrich or to Learn?
- Olga Maiorova. Was or Was Not?
- Marina Mogilner. Russian Landowner Tolstoy, or How to Think about the Settlement Colonialism in the Russian Empire
- Edyta Bojanowska. Leo Tolstoy Outside the Black and White Paradigm
INSIDE MEDIA: THE LATEST POETIC PRACTICES AND AESTHETICS OF THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
- Denis Larionov, Alexey Masalov. From the Guest Editors
- Anna Rodionova. The Connection is Established: Intricacies of Poetry, Technology and Power
- Mikhail Pavlovets. Volume V: Programs by Aleksandr Kondratov: On the Path Towards Cybernetic Poetry
- Maxim Dryomov, Anna Pismanik. Fragments of Machine Discourse: Technological Writing as a Trigger for a New Type of Reader’s Pleasure in Andrey Cherkasov’s Poetry
- Denis Larionov. Together and on the Screen: Notes on Poetic Works in Social Media
- Alexey Masalov. Mediaperformativity of Aristarch Mesropyan and Glikeriy Ulunov
- Anna Nizhnik. Women’s Writing and Its Mode of Existence in the Digital Environment
POETOLOGICAL STUDIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY. ON BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
- Tatyana Pirusskaya. Reference Points (Review of the book: Ohi, Kevin. Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form. Fordham University Press, 2021)
- Maria Sapozhnikova. The Ending as a Conclusion (Review of the book: Simons, Oliver. Literary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist. Northwestern University Press, 2022)
- Mikhail Sergeev. The History of Information by Chronology, Themes and Alphabet (Review of the book: Information: A Historical Com- panion. Princeton University Press, 2021)
- Artyom Zubov. Metaphors of Genre: Popular Genre as a World (Re- view of the book: Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth, Fletcher, Lisa. Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture. University of Massachusetts Press, 2022)
- Feodor Nikolai. Perspectives on the “Digital Turn” in Memory Studies (Review of the book: Pamyat’ v Seti: tsifrovoy povorot v memory studies. European University at St. Petersburg Press, 2023)
- Tatyana Venediktova. Traversing Across Myth to Reality (Review of the book: Lapina, Galina. Amerikantsy v Moskve: 1930—1940. Litfakt, 2022)
- Dmitry Tsyganov. The Simplification of Stalinism: The Aesthetic and Political Meanings of Soviet Culture from the 1920s—1950s (Review of the book: Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism. Routledge, 2023)
BIBLIOGRAPHY. IN THE MARGINS
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Mikhail Kurenkov. “Republicanism: Theory, History, Contemporary Practices”, All-Russian Conference (Res Publica Research Center, European University at St. Petersburg, 16 December 2022)
- Vera Milchina. 30th Lotman Readings “Literature and Commentary”, International Research Conference (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities, 23—24 December 2022)
- Anna Shvets, Adel Yusupova, Elizaveta Orlova, Aleksandra Petelina. Intermediality and Polycode of the Text: Moving Away from the Word and Returning to the Word. “Problems of the History and Theory of Intermedial Research”, Round Table Discussion (HSE University, 9 April 2022); “The Letter as a Polycoded Message”, Research Con- ference (Moscow State University, 11 February 2023)
- Maria Gourieva. Vernacular Photography Between Institution and Subject: Problems and Approaches (review of the studies)