THE NEW SOCIAL POETRY

Vladimir Lukichev. Asia’s Bold Test-run

Natalia Azarova. Musical Report on the State of World Affairsin 2016 in Eight Brazils

 

DEBATING MODERNITY

Nikolay Poselyagin. From the Editor

Michael David-Fox. Russian—Soviet Modernity: None, Shared, Alternative, or Entangled? (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Ten Responses to David-Fox’s Essay

Catriona Kelly. Reply to Michael David-Fox (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Mark D. Steinberg. On the Concept of Modernity (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Timur Atnashev, Mikhail Velizhev. The Modernity Family and the Crooked Timber of Russian History

Kirill Kobrin. Modernite´ — From Women’s Perfume to the Treadmill

Andy Byford. Doing “Modernity” (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Steven Lovell. Soviet Modernity: New Questions and a Few Old Ones (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Alexander Etkind. Reversible Modernity

Douglas Rogers. Russia, Modernity, and Cultural Anthropology (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Bruce Grant. Technologies of Hierarchy (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

Alexander Markov. Soviet Modernity: The Production of Absence

Michael David-Fox. Modernity as Imaginary, Modernity as Tool: Is There a Way Forward? (trans. Tatyana Pirusskaya)

 

THE MINISTRY, THE HARES AND THE MEMES, OR HOW SCHOLARLY COMMUNITIES ARE FORMED AND HOW THEY PERSIST

Konstantin A. Bogdanov. From the Guest Editor

Konstantin A. Bogdanov. The Fauna of Morality: Russian Classics and Russian Hares

Olga Kuznetsova. “The Rocks Are a Refuge for the Hares”: (The Image of the Hare in the Poetry of Simeon Polotsky)

Elena Kardash. “He imitated Byron and perished like a hare”: A Preliminary Commentary

Dina Magomedova. Alexander Blok. The Bunny and the Hare: The Question of the Addressee in Poetry for Children

Natalja Sroma, Anastasija Vedela. “The Great Russian Hare”: Conceptualizing the Image of the Hare in Nazi Propaganda (with reference to the newspaper Za Rodinu 1942—1944)

 

THE UNKNOWN LESKOV

Tatyana Shor. Who’s to Blame? ...Or Nikolay Leskov at the Ostsee Court

Maya Kucherskaya. A Useful Neighbor: Leskov at Work on His Autobiography

Andrey Ranchin. The Life and Opinions of Nikolay Leskov Told by his Friends, Acquaintances and Detractors

 

INTERPRETATIONS: LETTERS, BIOGRAPHIES, LIFE EXPERIENCES

Igor Nemirovsky. How Pushkin Became a Prophet (From the History of Early Biographies of Pushkin)

From Correspondence Between F.E. Korsh and D.N. Ushakov (1905—1912) (publication and commentary by Evgenia Basovskaya)

 

IN MEMORIAM. Boris Bessonov (March 16, 1931, Leningrad — January 14, 2016, St. Petersburg)

A.Yu. Balakin, M.Yu. Stepina. “You Need to Ask Bessonov”

Boris L. Bessonov. N.A. Nekrasov: Work and Biography (Prospectus for a Monograph) (edited and annotated by A.Yu. Balakin)

Boris L. Bessonov. N.A. Nekrasov: His Biography’s Reflection in His Work (Prospectus for a Monograph) (edited and annotated by A.Yu. Balakin)

Boris L. Bessonov. [Notes on the article “Zvonarev, Alexander Alexandrovich”] (edited and annotated by A.Yu. Balakin)

Bibliography of Works by Boris L. Bessonov (edited by A.Yu. Balakin)

 

THE TERROR OF OSTRANENIE. AESTHETIC AVANT-GARDE VS. POLITICAL AVANT- GARDE

Alexander Skidan. From the Editor

Anatoly Rykov. Between Conservative Revolution and Bolshevism: Nikolai Punin’s Total Aesthetic Mobilization

Sergey Fokin. Blanchot, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe: Oblivion, Expectation, Legend

Denis Ioffe. The Revolutionary Aesthetics of the Second Russian Avant-Garde’s “Cynic” Terror: The Subversive Art of Mikhail Grobman

 

CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Valery Shubinsky. Abandoning the Diversity of Life (Review of: Dm. Bakin. About Going to the Blazes. Leipzig, 2016)

Stanislav Snytko. At the Point of Non-intersection (Review of A.Levkin. The Beaten Pixel. Moscow, 2016)

Aleksey Porvin. Decoding Points (Review of: E. Gorshkova. The Guard Fish: First Book of Poems. Moscow, 2015)

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Artyom Zubov. The Cultural History of Science Fiction as a Popular Genre (Review of: J. Rieder. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Middleton, CT, 2008; A. Bannerjee. We Modern People. Middletown, CT, 2012; M. Bould. Science Fiction. London; NY, 2012; Alien Imaginations. New York; London, 2015)

Fyodor Nikolai. “Backing into the Future”: The Professionalism of Historian and Disciplinary Norms (Review of Russian edition of: R. Torstendahl. The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism. London, 2014)

Tatyana Venediktova. Triumph of the Middlebrows (Review of: B.Driscoll. The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke & New York, 2014)

Elizaveta Berezina. DIY Entrepreneur: Business Strategies of Artists from the Wanderers to the YBAs (Review of: A. Artyunova. The Art Market in the 21st Century: A Space for Artistic Experiement. Moscow, 2015 (in Russian); A. Shabanov. The Wanderers: Between Commercial Partnership and Artistic Movement. St. Petersburg, 2015 (in Russian))

Zemfira Salamova. Serials: From Victorian Novels to Video Games (Review of: Serialization in Popular Culture. New York, 2014)

New books

M.M. Samokhina. Young Readers on Young Literary Characters: Conversations on the Internet

 

CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE

Darya Pasichnik, Kirill Korchagin. Fifth International Prigov Readings (Pushkin Fine Art Museum, Moscow, 5—7 November, 2015)

K.S. Overina, A.D. Stepanov. “Intertextual Analysis: Principles and Boundaries” (international scholarly seminar) (Department of the History of Russian Literature, Philology Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, 21—22 April, 2016)

Ekaterina Vakhrameeva, Anna Shvets. Pragmatics and Poetics: Towards New Definitions of the Poetic. “The Poetical as Cognitive and Communicative Know-How” (round table) (Moscow State University, 18 April, 2016)

M.P. Abasheva, V. V. Abashev. “Cultural Goods: Patriotism, Citizenship, Nationalism. Political Concepts in Modern Popular Culture” (international conference) (Perm, 26—27 June, 2015)*

 

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