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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:
NEW POETRY
THEORY AS A REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE
HISTORICAL IMAGINARY IN LITERATURE
- Anatoly Korchinsky. Imagining History: Instead of an Introduction
- Hayden White. Against Historical Realism: A Reading of War and Peace (transl. from English by Anna Kudalina ed. by Andrei Oleynikov)
- Anatoly Korchinsky. My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen: The Performance of History and the Dialectics of Non-negation
- Jens Herlth. Information, Experience, and Historical Teleology in F.M. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
- Anna Kudalina. In Search of Another Modernity: Modes of Historicity in L.N. Tolstoy and M. Proust
- Karina Razukhina. Autofiction as a Medium of Cultural Memory: E. Limonov’s Novel We Had a Great Epoch
OPERA IN RUSSIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL
- Elena Vereshchagina, Andrei Zorin. Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber in Russian Culture of 19th Century (Agathe’s Prayer Over Wolf’s Glen)
- Ekaterina Smirnova, Evgeniya Litinskaya. “Olonets Mermaid”, or Dido inside out: Classical Heritage in the Repertoire of the Provincial Theater of the Early 19th Century
MIKHAIL YERYOMIN: NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POETICS
- Aleksandra Tsibulia. From the Compiler
- Alexey Masalov. Mikhail Yeryomin and Hermetic Poetry: Between Poetics of Cipher and Poetics of Emergent
- Anna Rodionova. Mikhail Yeryomin: “Self-Sufficient” Terms, “Polymeric Chimeras”
- Ivan Onosov. Fermata
- Aleksandra Tsibulia. Ekphrasis and Intermediality in Mikhail Yeryomin’s Poetics
- Iuliia Valieva. A Letter of Mikhail Yeryomin to Lev Loseff about Pasternak
SPECIAL LANGUAGE OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS
- Vladimir Korkunov. Inside Louis Braille’s Six Hiding Places. Deafblindness and Documentary Poetry
- Igor Markaryan, Natalia Zalevskaya, Natalia Demyanenko et al.. Monologues about the Last Thing Seen (publ. by Vladimir Korkunov)
- Irina Ekimasheva, Elena Volokh, Vladimir Rachkin et al.. Monologues about the Last Thing Heard (publ. by Vladimir Korkunov)
IN MEMORIAM: BORIS OSTANIN (1.10.1946—22.09.2023)
- Boris Konstriktor. 444-50-54
- Pyotr Kazarnovsky. Continuous Dotted Line (About Ostanin Boris)
- Alexey Konakov. In Memory of Boris Ostanin
- Sergei Zavialov. God Is Silent. Let’s Keep Quiet Too
- Mikhail Kurtov. On the Meaning of the Number 37 (73) in the Life of Boris Ostanin
- Boris Ostanin. Lecture on Dragomoshchenko. Presentation of the Poetry of Alexander Gornon at the House of Scientists in Lesnoe (publ. by Alexander Skidan)
CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Anna Yakovets. Part Instead of the Whole: Targeted Analysis of Conspiracy Theories (Review of the books Die Realität hinter der Realität: Verschwörungsdenken als moderne Denkform by Dominic Angeloch, Büchner, 2023; Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence by Jenny Rice, Ohio State University Press, 2020; Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends edited by Anastasiya Astapova, Onoriu Colaˇcel, Corneliu Pintilescu, Tamás Scheibner, Routledge, 2021)
- Tatyana Venediktova. The Science of Literature in Search of a “Secular” Vocation (Review of Ronald Schleifer’s book Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)
- Sergey Zenkin. Russian Theory and Intellectual History — 4 (Notes on Theory, 36)
- Dina Shulyatyeva. Towards a Theory of Branched Narrative in Literature and Cinema (Review of English language Research)
- Victor Dimitriev. Emigration as a Literary Destiny and Creative Strategy (Review of Leonid Livak’s book Études sur l’histoire cul- turelle de l’émigration russe en France (1920—1950), Eur’Orbem Éditions, 2022; and Alexander Stroev’s book Literaturnye sud’by russkikh pisateley vo Frantsii, Litfakt, 2023)
- Andrei Ranchin. Finding Meaning (Review of Vladimir Kirillin’s book V poiskakh smysla: opyt interpretatsii pamyatnikov drevnerusskoy literatury, LRC Publishing House, 2022)
- Aleksandr Kobrinsky. “To Make Everything Clear...”: Alexander Vvedensky from the Creation to the Death of the World (Review of Kornelija Icˇin’s book Mertsayushchie miry Aleksandra Vvedenskogo, EUSP Press, 2023)
- New Books
- Olga Shapkina. Publications by A.A. Izmailov in the Newspaper “Russkoe Slovo” (1905—1916): Bibliographic List
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Alexander Fokin, Olga Golechkova. New Research on Historical Memory of the 1990s. Interdisciplinary Research Seminar with Inter- national Participation “‘Dashing’ or ‘Saint’”: The 90s in the Focus of Memory and Historical Politics” (Center for Applied History of the Institute of Social Sciences, RANEPA, June 7, 2023)
- Eugenia Samostienko, Ekaterina Zakharkiv. Scientific Conference “Between the Poetic and the Everyday: Discourse — Media — Communication” (Institute of Linguistics RAS, June 16—17, 2023)
- Giulia De Florio. International Conference “The Right to Testify. The Social Status of the Witness in Times of Change” (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, June 22—24, 2023)
- Vera Milchina. International Scientific Conference “Translatio Studii: Texts, Contexts and People” (Laboratory of Historical and Literary Research, Laboratory of Historical and Cultural Research STEPS RANEPA with the participation of IVGI RSUH named after E.M. Me- letinsky, October 13—14, 2023)
- Polina Rybina. We and/as Media. International Conference “Affec- tive Intermediality” (Hungarian Transylvania Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 20—21, 2023)