buy
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:
FROM THE EDITOR
THEORY OF THE BORDER: BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, LIMITS, THRESHOLDS
PHILOSOPIHCAL REFLECTION: LINE, LITTORAL, LIMINAL ZONE
COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE BORDER. QUESTIONNAIRE
BORDERS OF THE EMPIRE, BORDERS OF THE OTHER
- Alexander F. Filippov. The Horizons of Empire
- Svetlana Bankovskaya. The Stranger on the Frontier (or the Frontier as a production site and as a habitat for the Stranger)
- Stanisław Boridczenko. Reverse Colonialism. The Limits of Russian Imperial Ambitions in the Press Discourse of Nicholas II’s Russia
(POST)SOVIET: BORDERS OF A CLOSED SOCIETY
- Evgeny Dobrenko. “The Friendship of Peoples Knows No Borders”: The Pragmatics and Rhetoric of Brotherhood and the Soviet Imperial Imaginary in the Poetry of the Peoples of the USSR of the Stalinist Era
- Mark Lipovetsky. The Legend of Ranevskaya: The trickster and gender transgression
- Kevin Platt. Performative Translation and Lyric Cosmopolitanism in the Border Zone
TRANSGRESSIVE EXPRIENCES IN THE RUSSOPHONE CULTURAL SPHERE. Guest Editor: Larisa Muravieva
GRAPHOMANIA. LITERATURE AND ITS BOUNDARIES
- Danila Davydov. Naive Author as a (Non)Graphomaniac: Toward the Problem of Correlation of Concepts
- Mark Lipovetsky. In Lieu of Foucault: Graphomania, Literature, and Power in Abram Tertz’s Fantastic Tales
- Ksenia Kostomarova, Pavel Uspenskij. How does the Phenomenology of Stupidity Explain Graphomania? Reflection with Examples from Viktor Bokov’s Poems
BIBLIOGRAPHY. REGIONS AND LIMITS
- Igor Kobylin. From Region to Region: (Peri)phenomenological Wanderings on the Edge of the World (Review of Casey E.S. The World on Edge. Bloomington, 2017)
- Yevgeni Savitsky. On the Other Side of Border Studies: Debates around Approaches to the Study of Borders and Borderlands (Review of A Companion to Border Studies. Malden; Oxford; Chichester, 2012; Border and Bordering. Stuttgart, 2021)
- Anna Stogova. A Flood, Sweeping Away Obstacles? (Review of Morris P. Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation. London; New York; Dublin, 2024)
- Sergei Koretko. The Antinomies of the Deviant: Marginality as a Sociological, Philosophical, and Political Problem (Review of Bankovsky S.P. Outsiders and Borders: Studies of Sociology of Marginality [Баньковская С.П. Чужаки и границы: исследования по социологии маргинальности.] St. Petersburg, 2023)
- Dmitry Kolchigin. Neorhetorical Figures (Review of Alford C. Entitled Opinions. Tuscaloosa, 2024; Lombardinilo A. The Lure of Communication. London, 2024)
- Dmitry Tsyganov. State Security Above All: The Secret Police and the Soviet Cultural Life in Light of the “Archival Counterrevolution” (Review of The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations / Ed. by M. DavidFox. Pittsburgh, 2023).
- Mariia Neklyudova. On the Other Side of the Map (Review of Les cartes à jouer du savoir. Détournements savants au XVIIIe siècle / Sous la direction de JeanFrançois Bert et Jérôme Lamy. Basel, 2023).
- Anfisa Savina. A Whirlpool of People and Books (Review of ILCEA. Bibliothèques en dehors de l’Empire: institutions et pratiques culturel- les de l’exil russophone (1870—1956) / Sous la direction de François Allisson et Alexeï Evstratov. 2024. No 56).
CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE
- Dmitry Tsyganov. International conference “Soviet Multinational Literature as an Imperial Practice” (Dresden University, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, October 24—25, 2024).
- Aleksandr Korobeinikov. Economic Studies of Borderland Territories of Northern Eurasia: Current Trends and Future Directions. Inter national Research Seminar “Rethinking Borderland Capitalisms: Economic Practices and Resource Competition in (Post)Imperial Siberia and Central Asia” (The Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, February 1—2, 2024).
- Svetlana Pakhomova, Valeriia Novikova. International Conference “The Concept of the Border in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Tradition” (Institute o) (Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, December 6—8, 2023).
- Yaroslava Zakharova. International Conference “Graphomania. Russian Literature and Its Borders” (Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature, Pushkin House, Russian Academy of Sciences, New Literary Observer, October 7—9, 2024)