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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:
METROPOLISES OF CULTURE / PROVINCES OF EXPERIENCE. Guest Editor: Ilya Kalinin
PART 1. METROPOLISES OF CULTURE
- Raymond Williams. The New Metropolis (trans. from English by Nikolai Vokuev)
- Stuart Hall. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power (trans. from English by Nikolai Vokuev)
- Nikolai Vokuev. “Structures of Feeling” in the “Rebellious Periphe- ries”: Russophone Decolonial Discourse in the Context of Cultural Materialism and the Semiotics of Culture
PART 2. PROVINCES OF EXPERIENCE
- The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Kuan-Hsing Chen (trans. from English by Nikolai Vokuev)
- Ilya Kalinin. Poetics of History: Russian Formalism on Metropolis and Periphery
- Stepan Popov. “I Am Telling About Events and Making a Preparation from Myself”: Russian Formalists between Biographical Experience and Literary Theory
CULTURE IN / OF RELOCATION. Guest Editors: Irina Golovacheva, Lyubov Bugaeva
- Irina Golovacheva, Lyubov Bugaeva. From the Guest Editors
- Irina Golovacheva. On the Trail of the Sun: Aldous Huxley’s Case Study against the Background of Continental and Transatlantic Migration of British Writers in the Inter-War Decades
- Olga Panova. Blacks Among Reds: African American Expatriates and Emigrants in the USSR in the 1930s
- Aleksandr Belobratov. “At the World History’s Dirty Wall”: The Wan- derings of Klara Blum, the Austrian Poet
- Lyubov Bugaeva. Expulsion from Paradise: The Fate of the Hollywood Ten
AKHMATOVA’S ORPHANS. Guest Editor: Yuri Leving
- Yuri Leving. From the Guest Editor
- Roman Timenchik. Akhmatova and so-called “Orphans”
- Appendix: Anatoly Naiman. On Akhmatova’s Poem without a Hero
- Evgeny Soshkin. Akhmatova’s Dead Orphans
- Alexander Dolinin. Joseph Brodsky’s Poem «Dorogaia, ia vyshel segodnia iz domu...» («Brise Marine»): A Non-Biographical Approach
- Lev Oborin. Anatoly Naiman’s “Vegetation”: Towards Poetology of Branching
- Yuri Leving. Where is the Mattress’s Cowgirl Riding? On Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Kushner’s Controversy around “Letter to an Oasis”
THE LANGUAGE OF WITNESS, THE LANGUAGE OF CATASTROPHES
- Shimon Sandbank. “From the Horror of the Voice”: The Destruction of Mimesis in the Poetry of Dan Pagis (trans. from Hebrew by Shlomo Krol and Nikita Bystrov)
- Nikita Bystrov. “A Quiet Whisper Without Words”: The Language of Silence in the Poetry of Dan Pagis
- Dan Pagis. Selected poems (trans. from Hebrew by Nikita Bystrov)
IN MEMORIAM. SHAMSHAD ABDULLAEV (1.11.1957—23.10.2024)
- Alexander Ulanov. Hard Сlay
- Alexandra Tsibulia. A “Madman’s Pupil” as an “Unbearable Image”
- Ivan Onosov. The Vision of Invisibility
- Nikita Safonov. Ripple and Rhythm: Experiments in Reading
- Sergei Zavialov. Ancestral Dust
- Last Interview with Shamshad Abdulaev. Poetry is an Indispensable Falsity (interviewed by Vladimir Korkunov)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Aleksei Pavlovsky. A New Theory of Post-Memory, or Why Marianne Hirsch’s Concept Does Not Work (Review of M. Hirsch’s The Generation of Post-Memory, Moscow, 2021)
- Fedor Nikolai. Ressentiment and Indignation: Fragments of an Intellectual History and Political Sociology of Emotions (Review of L. Fishman’s The Inequality of Equals. Moscow, 2024; N. Demertzis’. The Political Sociology of Emotions. N.Y.; L., 2020; Schneider R.A. The Return of Resentment. Chicago; L., 2023)
- Vera Milchina. A Brilliant Denunciation of the Enlightenment (Review of Maistre J. de. Quatre chapitres sur la Russie / Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Pierre Glaudes. — Paris: Vagabonde, 2024. — 222 p.)
- Olga Dmitrienko. “Keys” to the Nabokovian code (Review of O. Voro- nina’s Crypotgraphy: Nabokov. Archive. Subtext — St. Petersburg. Ivan Limbakh Publishing House, 2023 — 584 p. — 1500 copies)
- Svetlana Laschenko. Musical Allusions in Russian Verbal Art. (Review of B. Kats’ Musical Keys in Russian Literature: Articles and Studies. St. Petersburg. European University in St. Petersburg Press, 2024)
- Artem Zubov. Science Fictional “Word-creation” (Review of Noletto I.A.C. Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature. L.; N.Y., 2024)
- Leonid Chekin. Maps in Books from the 16th—18th centuries: Cartography of Fiction and Illusions of Source Studies (Review of R. Chartier’s Maps and Fictions (16th—18th Centuries). St. Petersburg University Press, 2024, 222 p., 1000 copies)
- New books
ON THE MARGINS
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Anna Sabsai, Elizaveta Iakovenko. International Conference “Yan Satunovsky: The Nerve to Know This is Poetry” (Darmouth College, May 4, 2024)
- Anna Sinitskaia. XXII Pyrrhic Readings. “Evil as Good. The Interpre tation of Cultural Codes” (A Laboratory of Historical, Social, and Cultural Anthropology, Saratov, Jun 27—29, 2024)
- Ivan Sapogov, Vadim Danilov. Panel “The worlds of the Soviet Man: Towards a Perspectival Sovietology” XXII International Conference of Young Scholars “Vectors” (April 19—20, 2024)