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Abstract:

This volume is devoted to the fundamental problem of literature and, more broadly, culture of modern times, namely retrospection, which constitutes one of the most important cultural trends of the 20th and 21st centuries. The book explores literary movements that, on the one hand, look back at the past of cultural history, sometimes declaratively and manifestly, and on the other hand, carry out the renewal of certain cultural phenomena, often going far from the prototype. The writers’ conscious work with tradition, rethinking its elements, using them in a new context, including them in new systems of connections, reflecting on the fundamental impossibility of a complete break with the past — all this becomes the common basis of the contributions that this book brings together. Based on the material of various national traditions, the authors consider the issues of “rewriting the classics”, literary transfer, self-reflection of literature, and “reinvention” of the past. The book is addressed to philologists, cultural experts and anyone interested in the history of culture.

Keywords: cultural retrospection, tradition, canon, innovation, rewriting the classics, literary self-reflection, comparative studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THEORY OF RETROSPECTION. CULTURAL “SELF-EXAMINATION” IN NON-VERBAL ARTS

Veronika B. Zuseva-Özkan. The Prefix “Neo” and the Problem of Cultural Retrospection

George S. Prokhorov. Precedential and New: Aesthetic Strategies of Traditional and Modern Poetics

Valeri I. Tiupa. Neotraditionalism as Restoration of the Aesthetic

Alexander V. Markov. Retrospective Trends in Visual Arts

Alexander V. Markov. Retrospective Trends in Music

HISTORY OF LITERARY RETROSPECTION. NATIONAL VARIANTS

Olga I. Polovinkina. “Greece in China”: Some Characteristics of the “New Classical Spirit” in Anglo-American Modernism of the 1900s–1910s

Elena D. Galtsova. “Neoclassics” (Néo-classiques) and “Modern Classics” (classiques modernes) in French Poetry of the 1880s–1930s: Questions of Theory and Practice

Mikhail I. Sverdlov. On the Question of Neoromanticism: Renewal of Pathos and Literary Transfer

Veronika B. Zuseva-Özkan. Russian Neoromanticism: Word and Phenomenon

Aleksandr N. Belarev, Tamara V. Kudriavtseva. The Specificity of the German Neoromanticism and Its Reflection in the Works of the Speculative Fiction Writer Paul Scheerbart

Kirill A. Chekalov. French Neoromanticism and Popular Reading: The Case of Jules Verne

Georgy A. Veligorsky. Neoromanticism and Children’s Literature: A Comparative Analysis Essay (British-Russian Context)

Andrey V. Korovin. Scandinavian Neoromanticism and Holger Drachmann’s Works

Elena E. Tchougounova-Paulson. The Evolution of Literary Horror: Towards the Neo-Gothic (On the History of the Subject)

Dina M. Magomedova. “Rewriting Classics” in Russian Neorealism at the Turn of the Centuries: Author’s Sphere and Character’s Sphere

Alla A. Strelnikova. The “New Objectivity” Movement in the Literary and Cultural Context of the Weimar Republic: Origins and Interpretations of the Term

Yulia S. Patronnikova. From the History of Italian Neorealism: Cinema and Literature

Elena V. Ogneva. Portuguese Neorealism: A Journey of Half a Century

Anastasia V. Golubtsova. Italian Neoavanguardia and “Tradition of Innovation”

Andrey F. Kofman. Latin American Neo-Baroque: Theory and Practice

Aleksandra V. Eliseeva. “New Subjectivity”: A Label or a Term?

Kseniia R. Andreichuk. To the Issue of Swedish Neomythologism

Elena V. Haltrin-Khalturina. The Neo-Victorian Novel and the Framework of the Victorian “Dramatic Monologue”

Yulia S. Podlubnova. Sincerity, “New Sincerity” and the “Newest Sincernity” in Russian Literature: From Sentimentalism to Metamodernism

Index