Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Community and Diversity”. Moscow, 24–25 May 2022. Section “Literary studies”

Abstract

This year, young scientists from Moscow and Kaliningrad took part in the work of the Literary Studies section. The reports were divided into three thematic blocks: “Literary transformations”, “Spatio-temporal paradigms”, and “Issues of genre and poetics”. As part of the fi rst thematic block, reports on inter-Slavic literary connections and transformations of literary images and plots were presented. Problems touched upon included the correlation of folklore and rock in the Belarusian cultural space, the formation of the image of a little man in Slovenian and Czech literature in comparison with Russian literature, the transformation of the motifs of Chekov in Polish absurdist dramaturgy, and the influence of ideology on the reading of Czech interwar novels about Soviet life. The second thematic block united reports with spatio-temporal issues. Many speakers correlated spatio-temporal categories with the concept of memory, clarifying its properties and functions in various literary texts. The problem of landscape visualization in Czech modernist landscape lyrics was also touched upon. Within the framework of the third block, issues of genre and poetics were discussed, for example the properties of the Czech interwar utopia and the features of the Czech postmodern novel. Special attention was also paid to narratology. The moderators of the subsections were employees of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and specialists in Slavic literature. Both the participants of the conference and the moderators actively entered into a scientific dialogue, identified problematic issues, and jointly searched for solutions. In addition to the speakers who have regularly taken part in the conference, new participants participated this year, which indicates the ongoing relevance of this event.