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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:
APOCALYPSE AND CATASTROPHE IN LITERATURE
GENDER AND FEELINGS: FROM A HISTORY OF FEMALE EMOTIONALITY OF THE 19TH—20TH CENTURIES
- Natalia Pushkareva. From the Compiler
- Anna Belova. “For the Honor of a Sister”: The Story of a Failed Engagement as an Episode of Women’s Family Memory in Russia in the Middle of the 19th Century
- Natalia Mitsyuk, Natalia Pushkareva. The Awakening of the Feminine as a Pattern of Gender Identity (The Phenomenon of GirlTeenagers Adoration in the History of Russian Sexual Culture of the Second Half of the 19th — Early 20th Centuries)
- Maria Mikhailova. Tears Invisible to the World (“Men’s” Criticism of the End of the 19th Century about the Women’s Novels Plateau by Lyubov Gurevich and In a Strange Nest by K. Yeltsova and the Phenomenon of Women’s Literature)
- Ekaterina V. Kuznetsova. Gender and Literary Inversions in the Story of V. Bryusov “The Last Pages from a Woman’s Diary”
CULTURAL TRANSFER IN LITERATURE: DIALOGUE, BORROWING, APPROPRIATION
- Ekaterina Dmitrieva. The Cultural Transfer Theory as Mastering the Other (As an Introduction to the Topic)
- Mikhail Sverdlov. Kipling: The Poetics of Appropriation of Alien
- Natalia M. Dolgorukova. Tristan and Isolde in the Slavic literature: The Legend of Tryshchan
- Stanislav Savickij. What Does Cyrillic Know? The Idea of Poetic Language in “Eclogue 4th” and Essays by J. Brodsky
BIOGRAPHICAL FACT AND LITERARY INVENTION
FREE UNIVERSITY IN LENINGRAD (1988 — 1991)
- Dmitrii Bresler. From the Guest Editor
- Dmitrii Bresler, Daria Perepletova. Free University in Leningrad (1988—1991): Institutional and Metapoetic Forms of the “New Literature”
- Daria Perepletova. How to Plow a Literature Field: Workshop of Cri tical Prose by Olga Khrustaleva at the Free University in Leningrad
- Dmitrii Bresler. How to Plow a Mirror: The Poetic Mastery of Boris Ostanin at the Free University in Leningrad
- Valery Artamonov, Gleb Denisov, Dmitry Golynko. From an Unpublished Issue of the Journal Chasy (publication by Ruslan Mironov)
POETOLOGICAL STUDIES
POLEMIC
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
- Orpheus in the Museum of Poetic History, or Para dise Lost (Review of Andrei Polyakov’s books Evakuatsiya; Radiostantsiya “Poslednyaya Evropa”. Krasnaya kniga, Voymega, 2022)
- Aleksei Masalov. The Echo of Linguistic Faults (Review of Nidzhat Mamedov’s book Nepreryvnost’. Aramsızlıq. Continuity, BASLA*, 2022)
- Aleksandr Markov. Secret Adult Talk (Review of Pavel Peppershtein’s book Barkhatnaya kibitka [roman o detstve], Al’pina. Proza, 2023)
- Dmitry Sotnikov. Pathos Formulas (Review of Denis Beznosov’s book Svidetel’stva obitaniya, Izdatel’stvo Ivana Limbakha, 2023)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Dmitry Kolchigin. The Union of Swastika and Sophistry: Essays on Fascist Style (Review of the book The Rhetoric of Fascism, edited by Nathan Crick, University of Alabama Press, 2022)
- Evgeniy Savitskiy. Mussolini’s Orpheus? Words and Images of the Dictator in a CulturalHistorical Context (Review of the books Benito Mussolini — Konsens durch Mythen: Eine Analyse der faschistischen Rhetorik zwischen 1929 und 1936 by Frank Schumacher, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2022; Photographing Mussolini: The Making of a Politi- cal Icon by Alessandra Antola Swan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
- Vera Milchina. Novel with History (Review of Claudie Bernard’s book Le Passé recomposé: Le roman historique français du XIXe siècle, Classiques Garnier, 2021)
- Alexei Popovich. Experiments of Reformation in Russia of the Long 18th Century (Review of Andrey V. Ivanov’s book A Spiritual Revolu- tion: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
- Andrei Ranchin. “There Are Strange Coincidences,” or “Count Nulin” as a Historical Allegory
- New Books
- Pavel Glushakov. “Tynyanov’s Collections”: A Catalog of the Contents (1984—2019)
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Ksenia Gusarova. International Conference “Imperial Lives: Biographic Approaches as Decolonial Practice” (University of Cologne, RautenstrauchJoestMuseum, 30—31 March 2023)
- Paolo Bertini. International Research Conference “The Reception of East Slavic Literatures in the West and the East” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 2—3 March 2023)
- Vera Polilova, Tatyana Skulacheva, Vera Milchina. International Research Conference “Gasparov Readings 2023” (Institute of Higher Studies in the Humanities, Russian State University for the Humanities, 13—15 April 2023)
- Anna Sinitskaya. “Surprise”: the 21st Pyrrhic Readings. Interpreting Cultural Codes (Laboratory of Social, Historical, and Cultural Anthro pology, Saratov, 29 June — 1 July 2023)