Theorists Of Literature Research Articles

ЛЕОНІД БІЛЕЦЬКИЙ І КАМ’ЯНЕЦЬ-ПОДІЛЬСЬКИЙ ДЕРЖАВНИЙ УНІВЕРСИТЕТ. ДО 140-РІЧЧЯ З ДНЯ НАРОДЖЕННЯ НАУКОВЦЯ Й ОРГАНІЗАТОРА ОСВІТИ

The article summarizes the role of the famous literary critic, organizer of sci-ence and educational process, public and political fi gure Leonid Timofi yovych Biletskyi (1882-1955) in the formation of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Ukrainian University, where he worked as a private associate professor and also served as dean of the Faculty of History and Philology, vice-rector of this university during 1918-1920s. The source of information was mainly his memoirs, which were pub-lished only in 2013 – L. Biletskyi «My Memories (1917-1926)». The formation of the Ukrainian-centric position of this scientist, his active participation in the revival of the national school as an invaluable experience for further organizational work on the creation of the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Ukrainian University are analyzed. Attention is paid to the formation of L. Biletskyi as a scientist under the infl uence of scientifi c ideas and activities of V. Peretz, in particular, the philological seminar organized by him at the University of St. Volodymyr. The signifi cance of this gathering of intellectuals was that it produced a whole constellation of famous Ukrainian cultural fi gures, among whom, in addition to L. Biletskyi, I. Ohienko, S. Gaevskyi, M. Dry-Khmara. The Kamianets pages of L. Biletsky’s biography are outlined as a starting point for his further scientifi c and educational work. In particular, it refers to such organizational measures as the involvement of talented teachers and students, the teaching work of a scientist, the promotion of Ukrainian literature, the publication of textbooks and teaching aids. Also, the vectors of sci-entifi c activity of the scientist – a historian of Ukrainian literature, a Shevchenko expert, a theorist of literature – are characterized in general terms

Developing the creativity of future teachers of early childhood education: an educational project using children’s folklore texts

The article is a description and a proposal for a project implemented in 2021/2022 at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw among students of pedagogy (3rd year), specializing in pre-school and early school education. The first, theoretical part of the study presents information on children’s folklore and the role it plays in the education of the youngest. The issue of shaping the creative imagination through poetic texts as perceived by various researchers and theorists of literature was also discussed. The second part of the study is a presentation of various methods of work with the use of folkloric texts, carried out by students of preschool and early school education as part of academic classes in the following subject: Design and methodology of Polish language classes. It was ensured that the developed project would combine the implementation of an academic programme, and at the same time develop creativity in future teachers of early childhood education. The activity was aimed at developing the creative competences of future teachers of early childhood education and acquiring practical skills necessary for the effective performance of these skills in future professional work.

Interpreting Tax Legislation: The Role of Purpose

This paper was delivered in abbreviated form at the January 1995 meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, Tax Section.Copyright © 1995 by Deborah A. Geier"Sex Illegal in Missouri? Perhaps." (I knew that would get your attention.) That was the headline of an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in November 1994. The article described a Missouri statute enacted the preceding August that, if read literally, outlaws all sex in Missouri. One of the legislators is quoted in the article as saying that "[n]o one is going to be prosecuted for having normal sex," a statement I don't dare touch.The connection that this newspaper article has with the topic I discuss here is that tax law has a rich history of nonliteral interpretation in order to avoid results that one person or another has considered to be inconsistent with the purpose of the statute as a whole. This tradition is illustrated by the common law doctrines variously named substance over form, sham transaction, step transaction, business purpose, and assignment of income. In other instances, however, we have an extremely form-conscious approach, such as the approach to bootstrap acquisitions in the Zenz v. Quinlivan context. How do we make sense of it all?Interest in statutory interpretation has been renewed over the last decade, probably prompted-at least in part-by the confluence of two events that have nothing to do with tax law: the elevation to the Supreme Court of Antonin Scalia (whose literal textualist approach to statutory language is now embedded in the Court's opinions) and the attention paid to literature theorists, the so-called deconstructionists, who seized upon the notion that language is indeterminate. All of a sudden language and its interpretation were once again center stage after a long hiatus during which the theory behind the language dominated academic discourse.

«И пропагандист, и агитатор, и даже рекламист психологии и философии»: Павел Сергеевич Попов о Георгии Ивановиче Челпанове (предисловие к публикации главы «Челпанов» из мемуаров П.С. Попова)

The article updates the memoirs of the famous philosopher, logician, theorist of literature, translator Pavel Sergeevich Popov (1892–1964), dedicated to the pion­eer of philosophical and psychological thought and the founder of a full-fledged Russian psychological school in the first half of the 20th century, Georgy Ivan­ovich Chelpanov (1862–1936). The article precedes the publication of Chapter V “G.I. Chelpanov” of P.S. Popov’s memoirs “Images of the past. Memories from university, gymnasium, and childhood years”. P.S. Popov’s text allows you to re-look at G.I. Chelpanov as a person and philosopher, not only to appreciate his personal qualities as “a propagandist, an agitator, and even an advertiser” of ex­perimental psychology but also to update his philosophical ideas. The author proves that the value of P.S. Popov’s archival materials lies in the discovery of additional research perspectives for understanding both the published heritage of G.I. Chelpanov and the entire historical, cultural, and intellectual context of philosophical discussions of the first half of the 20th century. According to the author, domestic intellectual culture’s experience shows the productivity of the reception of ideas only in connection with the specific contexts of their creation and the fate of their creator. Therefore, understanding the inextricable link between personality and thought is essential for actualizing the philosoph­ical and humanitarian heritage.

П.С. Попов <Георгий Иванович> Челпанов <Часть вторая>

The article updates the memoirs of the famous philosopher, logician, theorist of literature, translator Pavel Sergeevich Popov (1892–1964), dedicated to the pion­eer of philosophical and psychological thought and the founder of a full-fledged Russian psychological school in the first half of the 20th century, Georgy Ivan­ovich Chelpanov (1862–1936). Below publishing second part of Chapter V “G.I. Chelpanov” of P.S. Popov’s memoirs “Images of the past. Memories from university, gymnasium, and childhood years”. P.S. Popov’s text allows you to re-look at G.I. Chelpanov as a person and philosopher, not only to appreciate his personal qualities as “a propagandist, an agitator, and even an advertiser” of ex­perimental psychology but also to update his philosophical ideas. The value of P.S. Popov’s archival materials lies in the discovery of additional research per­spectives for understanding both the published heritage of G.I. Chelpanov and the entire historical, cultural, and intellectual context of philosophical discus­sions of the first half of the 20th century. Domestic intellectual culture’s experi­ence shows the productivity of the reception of ideas only in connection with the specific contexts of their creation and the fate of their creator. Therefore, under­standing the inextricable link between personality and thought is essential for ac­tualizing the philosophical and humanitarian heritage.

Mapowanie teorii. Geobiografia teorii literatury fantastycznej w Polsce — propozycja badawcza i dwa studia przypadku

In the article the project of mapping the theories of fantastic literature in Poland is going to be presented. Methodology proposals have been completed by microanalyses of selected examples. It is of our conviction that the advancement of theoretical studies on the fantastic allows for introducing some arrangements, specifically in terms of reconstructing the mechanisms and conditions for building up the knowledge.
 We make use of the emergence theory focusing on repeatedness of accidental occurrences in, for instance, transferring and grounding notions or quite opposite in disqualifying particular scientific concepts and aiming at the strength of personal (biographical, geographical) conditions and idiosyncrasy in forming critical discourses on the fantastic phenomenon.
 The theory frame of the project is set up mainly by the concepts resulted from the spatial turn in the humanities. The arrangements of occurrences and cases made in the Polish theory of the fantastic are in reference to the concept of cultural geography, cultural mobility, migration studies and biographical materialism.
 It is proposed to benefit from derived therefrom the methods for data development, one of them the map. It is postulated also to identify the, so called, “lineages”, that is the theoretical and literary approaches to the fantastic,viewed in terms of long-term structures [longue durée] (it is mentioned in the article aimed at the study of the case dealing with the reception of literary works and theoretical studies of S. Grabiński via A. Hutnikiewicz). In turn, the study on cultural mobility (adaptation, reinterpretation, transferring, translation of particular approaches and concepts in the fantastic theory) will demonstrate the directions, speed and potentials in spreading the theory, for instance foreign ones in Poland and Polish abroad, respectively (it is emphasized in the study on the case of the reception of the T. Todorov via S. Lem fantastic theory). Finally it is of great interest to look into nomadic biographies (geographically and intellectually) of Polish fantastic literature theorists. It is proposed to reinforce in the studies not only the issue of human factor but also the material (artefacts, places) and the institutional (e.g. journals, universities) ones in determining communicative memory of particular theories of fantastic literature.

Locating Narrative in Scientific Papers

Although there is an extensive body of work concerning the relationship between narrative, rhetoric, and imaginative literature on the one hand and scientific writing on the other, the nature of the relationship is more often assumed than analysed. Literature theorists treat science as a thematic input into creative writing, while science theorists look for ways for scientists to tell better stories. This essay describes a principled, coherent and enabling theory to inform the narratology of scientific writing. It describes the framework of narrative codes set out by Roland Barthes which he applied to short fiction, but considered could be applied to other sorts of writing. Application of the codes to a recent scientific paper shows that they can analyse scientific writing as well as literary writing. The implications of this, notably that a common narrative framework does not diminish scientific writing, and that Barthes’ approach may have something useful to say about the nature of scientific models, is discussed.

Teoría, crítica y modernidad intempestiva en la estela de Hölderlin y Nietzsche

Tanto en su quehacer poético como en su meditación poetológica, Hölderlin expresa la condición de exilio en la que se encuentra el lenguaje para el hombre moderno. Filósofos y teóricos de la literatura han visto por ello en su obra un referente único, en el que la modernidad comienza a reconocer su inherente problematicidad, el que su crisis constituye su más rotundo momento de verdad. Se exponen aquí algunos aspectos esenciales de mi propia línea de investigación filosófica, que gira en torno a los nexos de este planteamiento con el del pensamiento de Nietzsche a partir de la cuestión del nihilismo.

«Хотя Карамзину, Державину не равен, Но в обществе певцов российских не бесславен» (рецензия на монографию А. Н. Пашкурова «М. Н. Муравьев и литературная культура: диалог восприятий». Казань, 2019)

The new monograph by A. N. Pashkurov is a serious scientific study that goes beyond the scope of the work of M. N. Muravyev, raising important methodological problems in the study of Russian literature of the 18th century. A talented historian and theorist of literature, Professor Pashkurov provides an example of the methodology for mastering the literary myth and the system of views of the writer on the world around him and artistic creation. This book marked the beginning of a series of works by philologists on the comprehension of the creative personality in its relation to the past, present and future of literature. This is the special value of the monograph.

ПИСЬМО В.П. ТИТОВА К В.Ф. ОДОЕВСКОМУ КАК НЕИЗВЕСТНЫЙ ОТКЛИК НА СТАТЬЮ И.С. ТУРГЕНЕВА «ГАМЛЕТ И ДОН-КИХОТ» (К ВОПРОСУ О ВОСПРИЯТИИ ТУРГЕНЕВСКОЙ ТРАКТОВКИ ОБРАЗА ГАМЛЕТА СОВРЕМЕННИКАМИ)

For the first time, in the article, Vladimir Titov’s letter (dated 12/24 February 1869) is published and commented. In the 1820s, in Russia, Titov was well-known as a writer and literature theorist, the author of a romantic novella The Remote House on Vasilyevsky Island (1829) close to Society of Lyubomudriye. The letter extracted from the archives of the National Library of Russia is addressed to Duke Vladimir Odoevsky whose relationship with Titov was friendly from the very beginning of their acquaintance. The letter focuses on Ivan Turgenev’s speech published in the first issue of Sovremennik and titled “Hamlet and Don Quixote”. Reacting to Turgenev’s article, Titov shortly and critically accesses the comparison concentrating mainly on the image of Hamlet and thoroughly expresses his opinion on the essence of his tragic state. Titov’s opinion is just the opposite of Turgenev’s complex and multidimensional interpretation. Having experienced the great impact of the philosophy of German idealism at the beginning of his career, Titov to a great extent idealizes Shakespeare’s character whom he long knows and whom he is clearly eager to vindicate. Meanwhile, Titov does not pursue the aim to absolutely advocate the romantic halo of Hamlet as a Titanic personality (grandiose intellect and scale of feeling) and to enact the tragic pathos of the inner fight only. Developing Goethe’s definition of the essence of the character’s inner conflict, Titov, on the one hand, approaches its real understanding underlying the prince’s necessity to stay in a derogatory position of a “pitiful semiclown, indecisive grouch and shred”. On the other hand, the assessment can not be absolutely objective because Titov wants to see Hamlet as a victim of the fatal fortune which turns him into a character of an almost classical tragedy of fate. Titov’s bright and developed reaction (in the document of private nature) to Turgenev’s article is attractive and important first of all for its vividly demonstrated novelty and creativity of the writer’s view, wideness and multimodality of the author’s perception of Hamlet’s image. For the first time, Turgenev gave a developed interpretation of Shakespeare’s image in the tale “Hamlet of Shchigrovsky Province” (1848). Continuing his searches in the area of “Russian” (or “steppe”) Hamlet, Turgenev creates moral and philosophical problems of the English tragedy in the crisis socio-historical and cultural atmosphere of Russia of the 1840s. However, the principles of the artistic generalization and the peculiarities of the new reading, not mentioned and not fully comprehended by his contemporaries, were surprising and rejected when the speech “Hamlet and Don Quixote” appeared, in which Shakespeare’s character is presented ultimately vividly and lively in the then current interpretation.

Methodological Aspects of Romanticism's Consideration in the European Musical Art of the 19th – the beginning of 20th Century

The aim of the article is to reveal the methodological aspects of the European Romanticism's investigation in the musical art and culture studies works. The methodology of the research presupposes such methods: historical – in the analysis of the processes of formation and evolution of Romanticism in the European art of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century; historical-cultural – in the consideration of the conceptual foundations of the universal cultural and socio-historical context of the Romantic epoch; descriptive – in the analysis of the terminology and its interpretation of the Romanticism notion; historical-comparative – in the comparison of different manifestations of Romanticism in the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century; method of modeling – in the construction of a stylistic model of Romanticism of the particular period; typological – in the definition of the most peculiar features of the Romantic style. The scientific novelty of the research is a systematization of the scientific experience of the examination of Romanticism and the definition of the modern tendencies of the research of these ranges of problems. Conclusions. The reasons for the difference in the definitions and interpretations of Romanticism by the musicologists and theorists of literature are defined. The common positions of the researchers of Romanticism are considered: the understanding of Romanticism as a multilevel category; consideration of national versions of Romanticism in different European cultures; recognition of Romanticism as a dynamic system of multidirectional tendencies.

MÍMESIS E GEOGRAFIA HUMANA NO MÉTODO DE PAUL VIDAL DE LA BLACHE

Based on the concept of mimesis elaborated by the Brazilian literature theorist Luiz Costa Lima Brazilian scholar, this article aims to analyse the Vidalian human geography. Its particular use of description and its capacity of metamorphosing environmental elements into geographical categories able to revealing the French national identity under the long-run time show how complex and relevant its method is.

O fim da literatura: possibilidades de enfrentamento

Há décadas, vaticina-se e aguarda-se o fim da literatura. Muitos críticos e teóricos da literatura lamentam e se ressentem por um futuro apocalíptico, que nunca chega. Este artigo parte dessa discussão e a aprofunda com vista a uma possível resolução nos campos da crítica e do ensino de literatura. Trata-se, como desenvolvemos no artigo, de uma abordagem literária ao mesmo tempo especificizante e interdisciplinar, para assim o elemento humanizante surgir no mundo feito de papel. À guisa de exemplo, analisamos o poema “O monstrengo”, que está no livro A balada do cárcere, de Bruno Tolentino. Desse modo, almejamos reunir, a um só tempo, diagnóstico, análise e, propositivamente, uma abordagem minimamente suficiente, diante desse estado de coisas.

Pamięć/wspomnienie. Uwagi do tekstu Lubomíra Doležela „Život s literaturou. Vzpomínky a rozhovory”

Studie se věnuje otázce poznávací hodnoty ego-dokumentu, jehož autorem je Lubomír Doležel, Život s literaturou. Vzpomínky a rozhovory (2013), vydaném jako šedesátý svazek v edici Paměť pražským nakladatelstvím Academia. Díky analýze textu dostáváme informace nezbytné pro vytvoření obrazu minulosti generace Čechů narozených před druhou světovou válkou, jako je duchovní atmosféra tohoto historického období, kterou nelze reprodukovat na základě jiných dokumentů. Pro naše účely se jednalo o náčrt reflexe části autobiografických závěrů Doležela, česko-kanadského lingvisty, teoretika literatury řazeného mezi zástupce třetí generace českého strukturalismu, generace spojené sdíleným prožitkem války a působící v podobném politicko-intelektuálním kontextu (dominance marxismu a strukturalismu). Jeho text je záznam jisté reality, záznamem a svědectvím viděných míst, potkaných osob, událostí, jichž byl svědkem, a zanecháním stopy po sobě a světě, ve kterém byl účastníkem.

O PAPEL DO AUTOR NOS ESTUDOS DO DIREITO NA OU ATRAVÉS DA LITERATURA

Este artigo discute o papel do autor, a partir das formulações de teóricos da literatura, adota a hermenêutica filosófica como matriz teórica e tem como objetivo contribuir para o debate teórico-metodológico que envolve as pesquisas e estudos em Direito e Literatura. Para tanto, são oferecidos postulados teóricos que, relativos ao papel do autor, foram desenvolvidos pelas principais correntes da crítica literária moderna, culminando com a ideia da morte do autor e a discussão dela decorrente. A seguir, abordam-se a noção de círculo hermenêutico e sua relação com o percurso analítico-interpretativo que articula autor, texto e leitor na interpretação de narrativas literárias. Por fim, busca-se demonstrar – através do romance “1984”, de George Orwell – em que medida o contexto histórico do autor pode colaborar para a atribuição de sentido ao texto.

Writing the Displaced Person: H. G. Adler’s Poetics of Exile

This article discusses the work of the Prague Jewish writer H. G. (Hans Günther) Adler (1910–1988) as an important contribution to the poetics of German-Jewish displacement in the wake of World War II. It demonstrates the significance of Adler’s early response to questions of refugee status, displacement and human rights in literature. The article argues that Adler’s work can be seen as providing in part a response to the question raised by Hannah Arendt, Joseph Slaughter and other recent theorists of literature and human rights: what poetic form is adequate to give literary expression to the mass displacements of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century? Adler’s short story ‘Note of a Displaced Person’ and his lengthy novel The Wall demonstrate the role that modernist poetics of fragmentation, in particular the legacy of Kafka, can have in bearing witness to this experience. They also demonstrate that the space of exile and displacement provides Adler with a vantage point from which to comment on the rights catastrophe of the twentieth century. Adler’s work develops a theological understanding of the crisis of displacement, a crisis that can only be resolved by restoring a relation between the divine and the human.

Dialogismo, polifonia, cronotopo e grotesco em A última gravação de Krapp: uma leitura bakhtiniana

RESUMO Este artigo, um recorte de nossa dissertação de mestrado, tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise da peça A última gravação de Krapp, de Samuel Beckett, a partir de conceitos teóricos provenientes dos escritos do teórico da literatura russo Mikhail Bakhtin, tais como dialogismo, polifonia, cronotopo e grotesco. Com o intuito de problematizar a questão das vozes presentes na peça, de acordo com a estrutura dramatúrgica criada por Samuel Beckett, tais conceitos servirão de suporte para uma reflexão que busque compreender a questão das relações existentes entre Krapp e suas alteridades; os jogos e conflitos desenvolvidos entre as diferentes consciências dos diferentes Krapps presentes no texto a partir da materialidade de suas gravações; a questão do espaço-tempo proposto por Beckett na peça; bem como a caracterização grotesca de Krapp e sua relação com a gênese do personagem, dentro do que denominamos, em nossa pesquisa, de poética do fracasso. Este trabalho foi originalmente apresentado como parte de nossa dissertação de mestrado1.

A.G. Filonov: Teacher, Theorist of Literature and Russian Writer

The article presents the biography facts of a prominent Russian teacher, literary theorist and original writer of the second half of the XIX century, Andrey Grigorievich Filonov (1831–1908). His main methodological views, especially in the field of teaching Russian literature, are revealed. The analysis of a number of textbooks and methodological works of the teacher is carried out. It is stated that the works by A.G. Filonov retain their relevance at the present and need further study.

German Romanticism as Translational World Literature Friedrich Schlegel’s Lucinde and Andrés Neuman’s El viajero del siglo

World Literature theorists understand translation to be intrinsic to the creation of literature, over and above a necessary tool in its circulation. In dialogue with Emily Apter’s call for a “translational model of comparative literature”, this article proposes a re-reading of German Romanticism as translational World Literature, and argues that this model has been critically taken up in contemporary Latin American fiction. The German Romantic universe is a kaleidoscope where internal changes pay homage to overarching unity; these variations are present both within a single language, and when we translate between languages. Precisely because of the inherent flexibility of language, Romantic translation theorists doubt the need for absolute fidelity to the original, suggesting instead a new kind of writing that formally merges the foreign and the familiar. Within this context, Friedrich Schlegel’s 1799 novel Lucinde can be read as an allegory for translational literature. Schlegel’s protagonist Julius must learn to write his own subjective language and yet simultaneously speak in a new, objective way. This is a Romantic fusion of self and world that nonetheless respects and upholds differences. Lucinde’s linguistic model has recently been revived by the Argentinian-Spanish author Andres Neuman in his 2009 novel El viajero del siglo (Traveller of the Century), in which two translators celebrate not only foreign literature, but the strangeness of their own language. The foreignization of the familiar is a central tenet of Neuman’s literary aesthetic: translation is a metaphor for speaking poetic language in one’s own tongue. Translational World Literature begins at home; it can be produced within a single language. Moreover, since the category “Latin American Literature” relies on a similarity that transcends territorial, political, and cultural boundaries, the German Romantic model of difference-within-sameness resonates with writers like Neuman who cross borders within their mother tongue.

On the Issue of a Monument to A.I. Solzhenitsyn in Rostov-on-Don: View of a Literature Theorist

On the Issue of a Monument to A.I. Solzhenitsyn in Rostov-on-Don: View of a Literature Theorist