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Abstract:

The book aims to explore the implicit theories of art held by various authors, as revealed through text analysis and confirmed by their explicit statements. Some of these statements, which may seem unrelated to any theory of art to the untrained eye, in fact reveal the core of the author’s worldview and, consequently, the guiding principles of their artistic work. The researchers aim to demonstrate how the theory was embodied by the author, in what cases experience aligns with stated principles and where experience so concretizes these ideas that the theories alone would be insufficient to grasp the full picture. By publishing these theories, the book provides a reliable foundation for concrete analysis and interpretation of the authors’ texts as well as for verifying or challenging interpretations; it allows us to distinguish clearly between the inherent meaning of a text and interpretive creativity (i.e., separating exegesis from eisegesis); it creates a reliable factual basis for discussing questions about the ultimate goals and specific purposes of art across different periods and authors. This volume is intended for philologists, philosophers, and anyone interested in the work of the authors whose theories of art are discussed within.

Keywords: theory of art, theory of the novel, Medieval allegory, William Langland, Dante, Dostoevsky, Fedorov, Gorsky, Setnitsky, Muravyev, Bryusov, Blok, Brodsky, Inklings, Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield.

CONTENTS

Tatiana Kasatkina. Authorial Theories of Art: Introduction 

Caterina Corbella. “Almeno la loro sententia”: On the Question of Authorial Intention in Dante’s Vita Nuova 

Valentina Sergeeva. The Space of Medieval Allegory: William Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman 

Anastasia Gacheva. Authorial Concepts of Art in the Philosophy of Russian Cosmism: N.F. Fedorov, A.K. Gorsky, N.A. Setnitsky, and V.N. Muravyev 

Tatiana Magaril-Il’iaeva. Reflections on Theory in Dostoevsky’s Early Works 

Tatiana Kasatkina. Dostoevsky: Theory of the Image and Theory of Art 

Nikolay Podosokorsky. History in Dostoevsky’s Works. How Historical Realities Create an Additional Plotline in Literary Art  

Evgeniia Ivanova. Valery Bryusov and Alexander Blok as Two Poles of Authorial Theories in Russian Symbolism 

Ekaterina Moiseeva. Authorial Features of Joseph Brodsky’s Poetics

Maria Shteуnman. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, O. Barfield: Myth, Language, Secondary World 

Anna Gumerova. The Authorial Theory of Myth in C.S. Lewis’s Works