THE NEW SOCIAL POETRY

7 Daria Sukhovey. Six-line Poem

10 Kirill Korchagin. Revolution Square

THE LIE AS A SOCIAL FACTOR: TEXTS AND PRACTICES

13 Tatiana Weiser. From the Editor

I. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EVIDENCE

15 Carlo Ginzburg. Reading History Against the Grain: Unintentional Revelations (trans. Galina Besedina)

32 Edward Waysband. The Fight for Rewriting the Ideology of Russian Futurism: The Young Formalists, ‘A Certain A. Dymshits,’ and Gulliver on Mayakovsky’s War Articles

54 Aleksei Popov. Lost in Translation: Inturist Translator-Guides and the Justification of Soviet Reality

II. THE LITERATURE OF SOCIALIST REALISM: A NEW PACT BETWEEN AUTHOR AND READER?

66 Boris Gasparov. Socialist Realism in its Metaphysical Dimension (Can the Artistic Imagination Lie?)

78 Mark Lipovetsky. The Metamorphoses of Munchhausen

91 Maria Mayofis. Society for the Struggle Against Boorishness: On an Overlooked Tendency in 1950s Literature

109 Appendix. Lidia Chukovskaya. Lecture Plans (1954–1957)

SOVIET THINGS: FRIENDS, ENEMIES, TRAITORS

128 Sergey Nekludov. From the Guest Editor

130 Alexandra Arkhipova, Elena Mikhailik. Dangerous Signs and Soviet Things

154  Alexandra Arkhipova, Anna Kirzyuk, Aleksey Titkov. Foreign Poisoned Things

167 Anna Kirzyuk. Three Black Volgas: Silence and Fear in Soviet Urban Legends

178 Galina Yuzefovich. “Shameful Consumerism”: The Consumerist Neurosis in the “Consumer Heaven” of the Soviet Baltic States

191 Maria Volkova. Diamonds in the Glass: Ideal Things in the Post-Soviet “Soviet Utopia”

DISCOURSES OF DOMESTICATION – 2

202 Konstantin A. Bogdanov. From the Editor

204 Mikhail Shishkin, Jr. Coming Home to God: Notes for A History of Domesticating Life After Death

215 Annick Morard. Domesticating the Other: Monster Shows in Russia

233 Lyubov Bugaeva. American Girl and the Domestication of History

SOCIOLOGY OF READING

246 Natalia Samutina. Practices of Emotional Reading and Amateur Literature (Fanfiction)

270 Evgenia Vezhlian (Vorobyova). Contemporary Poetry and the ‘Problem’ of Reading It: A Reconceptualization

CLOSE READING

291 Roman Katsman. Jerusalem: Denis Sobolev’s Dissipative Novel

CHRONICLE OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

313 Valery Kislov. Molotov Cocktail (Review of: B. Ostanin. 37.1° C: Charts, Myths, Guesses and Histories for Every Day of 2017. SPb, 2015)

319 Aleksandr Zhitenev. An Earthly Caesura (Review of: Stepanova M. Spolia. Moscow, 2015)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

323 S. Zenkin. Popularization (Notes on Theory, 32)

THE COGNITIVE APPROACH TO FILM AND LITERATURE

332 Denis Akhapkin. Cognitive Literary Studies: From Order to Chaos and Back (Review of: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. N.Y., 2015; Cognitive Grammar in Literature. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2014; Armstrong P.B. How Literature Plays with the Brain. Baltimore, 2013)

346 Lyubov Bugaeva. Film and the Brain (Review of: Zacks J. Flicker: Your Brain on Movies. N.Y., 2014; Pisters P. The Neuro-Image: A De-leuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture. Stanford, 2012; Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cogni­tive Approaches. Routledge, 2015)

354 Andrei Oleinikov. Is the Past Worth ‘Practicing’? (Review of: White H. The Practical Past. Evanston, IL, 2014; Paul H. Key Issues in Histo­rical Theory. L., 2015)

362 Aleksei Vdovin. Peasants in Literature, Local Knowledge and the Problem of Modernity (Review of: Donovan J. European Local-Color Literature: National Tales, Dorfgeschichten, Romans Champètres. N.Y., L., 2010)

371 Ludmiła Łucewicz. Baroque Labyrinths (Review of: Borkovsky А. Labyrinths of Discourses in Slavic Literatures of the Baroque Era. Religion — Politics — Society. Siedlce, 2015)

376 Pyotr Kazarnovsky. Experiment: Poetry in a Textbook (Review of: Poetry: A Textbook. Moscow: OGI, 2016)

385 New books

CHRONICLE OF SCHOLARLY LIFE

413 Kirill Korchagin. XXIV Bannye Readings: Strategies of Cultural Resistance and Achieving Autonomy in Closed Societies (Memorial Soci­ety, 1–2 April 2016)

430 Tatiana Weiser. “I myself am happy to be deceived…” or The Lie in the Tension between a Legitimating Culture and a Judgmental Mora­lity. “The Lie as a Factor of Social Life: Texts and Practices” (conferen­ce held at European University in St. Petersburg, 27–29 May 2016)

441 Letters to the Editor

446 Our authors

447 Summary

453 Table of Content