«The History of Literature»: Non-scientific sources of a scientific genre

About the executive editor:

Maria R. Nenarokova, DSc in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, 1) A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia; 2) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Lomonosovsky prospekt 27-4, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract:

The given collective monograph explores the genesis of the genre of literary history, identifies its common origins, traces its development from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century. The authors consider the history of literature as a genre of both scientific and fictional prose; reveal the peculiarities of the poetics of literary history as a genre, study the phenomenon of a textbook on literary history and its relationship with the academic history of literature, and also introduce previously untranslated texts into scientific use. The collective monograph is designed, on the one hand, for philologists, specialists in the history of literature, and on the other, for wide readership.

Keywords: History of literature, academic literature, fiction, author’s history of literature, textbook, genre, poetics, prose, poetry.

CONTENTS

Nenarokova, M.R.
The Literary History Genre: From the Past to the Future

I. DEVELOPING THE “LITERATURE HISTORY” FORM

Mezheritskaya, S.I.
Sophistic Epideixis and Its Forms in “Lives of the Sophists” of Flavius Philostratus

Nenarokova, M.R.
St. Jerome and the Tradition of “De Viris Illustribus” Treatises

Evdokimova, L.V.
The “Speculum historiale” of Vincent of Beauvais: from the History of Antiquity to the History of Ancient Literature

II. THE EMERGENCE OF THE “LITERATURE HISTORY” LANGUAGE

Staf, I.K.
The Formation of Meta-Language in French Literature in the 16th Century: from Poetical Treatises to “Libraries”

Khaltrin-Khalturina, E.V.
From the English Renaissance Literary History: Sherry, Puttenham, Spenser, and Shakespeare on Fictions

III. WORKS OF DIFFERENT GENRES AS SOURCES FOR THE LITERATURE HISTORY

Schegoleva, L.I.
On the History of Ancient Philology: “Homeric Questions” by Porphyry of Tyre

Alexandrova, T.L.
Literary-Historical Information in the Works of John Tzetzes

Toporova, A.V.
Dante as the Author of the First “History of Italian Literature”

Ershova, I.V.
Forms of Existence of Literary History and Criticism in Spanish Literature of 15–16th Centuries

Chesnokova, T.G.
Alexander Pope: History in Theory and Theory in History

Reingold, N.I.
History Renewal: A Literary Project by Virginia Woolf

Korovin, A.V.
The History of Icelandic Literature as a Subject of Art Work

Rogachevskaya, M.S.
History of Fiction as the History of Human Consciousness (Based on D. Lodge’s Work “Consciousness and the Novel”)

IV. AUTHOR’S “LITERATURE HISTORIES”

Walecka-Rynduch, A., Walecki, W.
Simonis Starovolsci[i] Scriptorum Polonicorum Έκατονταʹς, Seu Centum Illustrioum Poloniae Scriptorum Elogia et Vitae

Patronnikova, Yu.S.
Francesco Fulvio Frugoni’s “The Tribunal of Criticism”. The Critical View on the Literature of the 17th Century

Ignatieva (Oganissian), M.Yu.
The First History of Spanish Literature: Luís José Velásques, Marquise de Valdeflores, and His “Orígenes de La Poesía Castellana” (1754)

Janus, K.
Józef Andrzej Załuski as a Literary Historian

Makhov, A.E.
The History of Literature as a Problem for German Philology

Sloistova, M.S.
Edmund Gosse and the History of English Classical Poetry:Science or Art?

Modina, G.I.
Poetics of “The History of French Literature” by Gustave Lanson

Krzystofik, M.
“History of Polish Literature” by Stanislav Tarnowski

Andreeva, V.G.
“The History of Russian Literature of the 19th Century” Edited by D.N. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky: from “Norm” and “Pathology” to “Winged Soul”

Vasileva, E.V.
H.P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature: Pragmatics and Poetics

V. “LITERATURE HISTORY” IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

Zhuk, A.D.
History of Literature as genre in “Geschichte der poetischen Literatur Deutschlands” by J. von Eichendorff and “Handbuch der Geschichte und Charakteristik der schönen Literatur der Deutschen, Zum Gebrauch der Vorlesungen über Deutsche Literatur” by Küster: The Academic “Yistory of Literature” and the Textbook for Universities

Nalegach, N.V.
The Principle of Interest in the “History of Russian Literature” by A.I. Nezelenov

Peshkova, V.V.
Just Bing as a Historian of Literature and Author of a Literature School Textbook

Saburova, L.E.
“American Lectures” Of Italo Calvino: Six Memos for the Next Millenium

Próchnicki, W.
An Author’s Narration: “History of Polish Literature” by Czeslaw Miłosz

VI. PUBLICATIONS

Dyakonova, E.M.
The Treatise of the Buddhist Monk Shinkei Sasamegoto (“Murmured Conversations, 1463–1464”) on the Poetry of Renga (“linked stanzas”) as a Piece of Art

Golubkov, A.V.
Hesiod’s dream: the History of World Literature in the Novel of French Précieuse (“Clélie, l’histoire romaine” by Madeleine de Scudéry)

Nenarokova, M.R.
The Literary History Genre: from the Past to the Future

Index