Theoretical and Literary Studies of Goncharov's Works by Russian Emigrants: Biographism versus Antibiographism

Valeriy A Cherkasov,Olga I Eremenko,Tatyana V Yakovleva,Vera V Demicheva,Svetlana V Petrova

doi:10.7596/taksad.v6i4.1188

Abstract

The article analyzes the main methodological approaches to the study of I.A. Goncharov's personality in literary criticism and in the criticism of Russian emigrants (1920s - the early 1930s). It was revealed that along with existing authoritative, methodologically cultural, historical and immanent concepts of I.A. Goncharov's personality a morphological and psychoanalytic trends emerged describing the writer's life and work. The biographical method used by the critics in the process of the writer's work analysis was significantly transformed without the loss of its meaning.

Highlights

The problem of biographism in the creation of writers and poets continues to remain in the works of many scholars [1-7]
Russian pre-revolutionary literary criticism was dominated by a positivist attitude toward the study of a writer's biography, regarded to understand his artistic works
It is considered as a source of information about a writer's biographical personality, or about his empirical individuality

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Introduction

The problem of biographism in the creation of writers and poets continues to remain in the works of many scholars [1-7]. Russian pre-revolutionary literary criticism was dominated by a positivist attitude toward the study of a writer's biography, regarded to understand his artistic works. It is considered as a source of information about a writer's biographical personality, or about his empirical individuality. We intend to characterize the main methodological approaches in the study of I.A. Goncharov's personality by literary criticism and the criticism of Russian emigrants during 1920s and early 1930s

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