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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:
RHETORIC TODAY: FROM DECADENCE TO RENAISSANCE (PRACTICES)
- Valery Vyugin. From the Compiler
- Konstantin A. Bogdanov. Drunkenness and Russian Literature: Rhetorical Models
- Ilya Kalinin. Between Factory and Museum: Rhetoric for the Proletariat
- Olga Davydova, Larissa Muravieva. The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Visual Storytelling in Comics by Liv Strömquist
- Lyubov Bugaeva. Thought Experiment as Narrative Strategy: Between Logic and Rhetoric
CREATIVE WRITING STUDIES
- Olga Nechaeva, Maya Kucherskaya. From the Compilers
- Olga Nechaeva. Briusov as a Teacher: Classical Literature and Poetry Class at VLKhI
- Oleg Lekmanov. Osip Mandelstam as a Teacher of Young Authors (From to the Memoirs of Contemporaries)
- Carol Any. Bolshevik Liberals on Creative Writing (transl. from English by Nina Stavrogina)
- Maya Kucherskaya, Eugenia Kelbert. Professor Brodsky: Poetica Ex Cathedra
READINGS
- Andrei Zorin. Female Singing, Eros and Violence in the World of Leo Tolstoy. Article 2. Flying Over the World
- Aleksandr Zholkovsky. Old and New. On the Song “Victory Day May 9” by Javid Kurbanov and Semyon Slepakov
- Vera Milchina. The War of the Pencil with the Pen (Word and Image in Granville’s Book Another World)
QUESTIONNAIRE
JOSEPH BRODSKY AND THE IMPERIAL TEXT IN RUSSIAN POETRY
VLADIMIR KAZAKOV: SILENT AND WITHOUT RHYME
- Anatoly Ryasov. From the Compiler
- Vladimir Kazakov. Vladimir Kazakov. Don Juan in Madrid (publication by Pyotr Molchanov and Anatoly Ryasov)
- Igor Lyovshin. The Antilinguistic Utopia of Vladimir Kazakov. And a Little Bit About Vsevolod Petrov
- Vasilisa Šljivar. Dostoevsky and Kazakov: An Attempt at a Parallel Reading
- Danila Davydov. On the Poetry and Poetics of Vladimir Kazakov: Descriptive Notes
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. The Aesthetics of Slowness in the Literature of Eras of Crisis: From Goethe to Mayakovsky and Kellerman (Review of the books: Frick, Jonas. Rasender Stillstand in der Zwischen- kriegszeit. Wallstein, 2023; Egloff, Miriam. Episches Erzählen bei Goethe als Reflexion auf moderne Zeitlichkeit. Brill | Fink, 2022)
- Nadezhda Krylova. “Historian in Detail”: The Image as Evidence (Review of the book: Burke, Peter. Vzglyad istorika: kak fotografii i izobrazheniya sozdayut istoriyu. Bombora, Eksmo, 2023)
- Anna Shvets. The Epistemology of the Digital Object (Review of the book: Viola, Lorella. The Humanities in the Digital. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
- Natalia Pushkareva, Alexander Zhidchenko. Foreign Research on the Everyday Life of Soviet Women (Review of the books: Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life. Indiana University Press, 2019; Ilič, Melanie. Soviet Women — Everyday Lives. Routledge, 2020; McKinney, Judith. Russian Women and the End of Soviet Socialism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
- Elena Markasova. Intellectual History and the Linguistic Turn (Review of the book: “Kul’tura Dukha” vs. “Kul’tura Razuma”: Intellektualy i vlast’ v Britanii i Rossii v XVII–XVIII vekakh. Akvilon, 2022)
- Mikhail Makeev. Emotions, Money, and Literature During the Era of Stagnation (Review of the book: Porter, Jillian. Ekonomika chuvstv: russkaya literatura epokhi Nikolaya I: (Politicheskaya ekonomiya i literatura). Academic Studies Press/Bibliorossika, 2021)
- Abram Reitblat. Old as New (Review of the book: Voloshina, Svetlana. Vlast’ i zhurnalistika: Nikolay I, Andrey Kraevskiy i drugie. Delo, 2022)
- Maria Mikhailova. The Dream of an “Unshakeable People’s Orthodox Rus” (Review of the book: Fetisenko, Olga. Kokhanovskaya: “Step- noy tsvetok” russkoy slovesnosti. Pushkin House, 2021)
- New Books
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Ilja Kukuj. “Blind Spots of the CounterCanon: Soviet Underground Revisited” International Conference (Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York; 13—15 February 2023)
- Vasilisa Borzova, Aleksandr Grishin, Vladislav Tretyakov. 29th Major Bannye Readings: “NonImperial Russia: Images, Ideas, Practices” International Conference (New Literary Observer, 7—9 April 2023)