Опубликовано в журнале НЛО, номер 1, 2012
MAPPING THE TURN: HOT
DEBATES IN WINTER
This selection of materials continues the journal’s discussion series on
the anthropo-logical turn in the Russian humanities Under the influence of the
anthropological "trend", literary criticism, historiography and other
humanities disciplines are dis-covering new possibilities, including within
themselves. In this way, the meeting with the "other" (with different
methodologies, different investigative views, different value scales, etc.) is
now less likely to provoke resistance connected with the conservative
tendencies of science and its historical inertia; rather, such meetings begin
to bear curious fruit. The mutual contesting of adjoining areas of knowledge no
longer looks like fierce competition on the intellectual market, but rather
like cooperation, in the process of which these areas of knowledge are drawn
into self-reflection and begin to restructure themselves.
The very term
"anthropological turn," however — which is the focus of the article
by Nikolai Poseliagin (
PRIVATE DOCUMENT
AS A FACTOR OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Alexandra Bekasova‘s article "Fathers, Sons and Public in
Mid-Eighteenth Century Russia" studies the correspondence within two noble
Russian families — Rumyancev
and Bestujev-Riumin — in
order to show how it helped to establish public opinion in
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
LITERATURE
Andrey Zorin in "Once again on The
Diary of One Week by A.N. Radischev: date, genre, biographical
aspect" revises the studies of Radischev’s work and takes a close look at
the work itself tackling the related questions of when exactly it was written
and how it combines fiction and non-fiction. "V.A. Zhukovski in
ESSAYS ON PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
Marina
Mogilner‘s
"Anthropology as Philology, or On the Use of Mestization: I.I.
Pantuhoff and his mestizos» is a case study of
Pantuhoff family (Ivan Ivanovich was a controversial anthropologist and his son
Mikhail —
a decadent
writer; the other son, Oleg, started the Scout Movement in Russia) which
embodies the key trends of Russian modernity (at the turn of the XX century)
and makes evident the clash between the Imperial logic of accepting differences
between human beings and the logic of unification, crucial for both scientific
and political projects of modernization of the Russian society.
IN MEMORIAM
This section is devoted to
the memory of the prose and children’s-book writer Georgii
Aleksandrovich Ball (1927—2011); it opens with some of his previously
unpublished short stories. In his article "On Georgii Ball as such and in
context," Danila Davydov (Moscow) contemplates the
paradoxical "eventfulness" or "mystery-quality" as the un-derlying
framework of Ball’s works and the ties between Ball and the "Lianozovo
group" (Evgenii Krovpivnitskii, Yan Satunovskii, Genrikh
Sapgir, Vsevolod Nekrasov et al.). In "Expressionism as technique and
explanatory model (a study of three stories by Georgii Ball),"
Evgeniia Vezhlian (Moscow State Pedagogical Institute)
perceives a principle of form and content common to Ball’s prose and the work
of the Lianozovo writers as tracing back to the tradition of expressionism,
with its tendency to go "beyond-the-maximum" and its blurring of
boundaries between the subject and object, the real and the imaginary, the
living and the dead. The section concludes with some remarks by Ainsley Morse (
1950s—1980s NON-CENSORED
RUSSIAN POETRY: A MODERN
This section opens with an
article by Aleksandr Zhitenev (
LYN HEJINIAN: "TO
EXCEED THE BOUNDARIES OF MERE AESTHETICS"
This section acquaints the reader with the work of one
of