Russian Literature and Journalism in the Pre-revolutionary Era: Forms of Interaction and Methodology of Analysis

Acknowledgements:

We are grateful to the Russian Science Foundation for their support of project № 20-18-00003. The results achieved in this project are reflected in this book.

About ex.editor:

Alexey A. Kholikov, DSc in Philology, Professor, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, No 1, International University Park Road, Dayun New Town, Longgang District, 518172 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, PRC; Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, GSP-1, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract:

This collective monograph is the second issue of a new scientific series devoted to the study of the forms of interaction between Russian literature and journalism in the crisis era of the early twentieth century. The main authors are the executors of RSF project (No. 20-18-00003), as well as specially invited scholars and experts in this field. The structure of the book is subordinated to the solution of the tasks facing the creative team and includes research of a fundamental nature; analytical reviews of not only national but also regional newspapers; publications of little-known and forgotten texts from periodicals and archives. These are accompanied by commentary; and bibliographic and reference materials. The publication is intended for philologists and for representatives of other humanitarian disciplines interested in such a complex, dispersed, diffuse and polygenre phenomenon as the Russian periodical press of the pre-revolutionary era.

CONTENTS

Introduction

Study of the Ways and Nature of the Interaction of Russian Literature and Journalism in a Crisis Era (A.A. Kholikov)

Section I

SCHOLARLY STUDIES

Chapter 1. Theoretical and Methodological Aspects

On “Urgent Literature” and its Transformations at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (E.I. Orlova) 

Philological Practices in the History of Journalism (Yu.B. Balashova)

On the Methodology of Journal (Almanac) Context Study (A.A. Gaponenkov, Yu.S. Romaykina) 

Chapter 2. Periodicals: from the Center to the Outskirts

Literature, Journalism and Publicism on the Pages of the Novoe Vremya Newspaper of the Early 1900s: Topics, Genres, Headings (The Experience of an Analytical Review) (M.A. Frolov)

Newspaper Russkoye Slovo: Type of Publication, Structure, Literary and Journalistic Context (Based on the Issues of 1900–1905) (A.V. Filatov) 

Novgorodskaya Newspaper Ilmen’ (1906–1907): Political Evolution from “Center” to “Left” (A.L. Semenova) 

Literature and Writers in Finljandskaja Gazeta(E.A. Andrushchenko)

Russian-Language Periodicals in Finland at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Finljandskaja Gazeta(L.F. Lutsevich) 

Genre-Thematic Features of Literary and Critical Publications in the Newspaper Yuzhnyj Kraj (1900–1905) (E.M. Zakharova)

Chapter 3. Strategies and Reputations

The Role of Periodicals in the Formation of Symbolism as a Trend (E.V. Ivanova) 

Yuly Aykhenvald’s “Natural Symbolism” (on the Question of the Aesthetic Method) (E.A. Takho-Godi) 

Literary and Aesthetic Views of V.P. Burenin and the Artistic Principles of Proletkult (K.A. Barsht) 

Viktor Burenin as Literary Critic: to the Question of Literary Reputation (O.V. Fedunina) 

“Impressionists’ Studio”: between Modernism and Avantgarde (M. Bohmig)

Sergey Bobrov in Summer of 1913. Once Again about the Frustrated Magazine of the “Lirica” Group (A.Yu. Sergeeva-Klyatis) 

The Literary Reputation of the Cubo-Futurists in the 1910s (S.A. Kazakova) 

Articles and Stories by E.I. Zamyatin in the Periodicals of M. Gorky 1915–1918 — the Magazine Letopis’ and the Newspaper Novaya Zhizn’. On Approaches to the Novel “We” (S.G. Korostelev) 

Chapter 4. Forms of reception

Mass Media Workers in Russian Literature of the Early 20th Century (M.V. Mikhailova, A.V. Nazarova) 

Leo Tolstoy and the Literary Life in the Early 20 Century in the Mirror of the Press (V.N. Krylov)

The Myth of a Failure of the First Staging Chekhov’s “The Seagull” (S.A. Kibalnik) 

The Image of a Russian Writer in Magazine Caricatures of the Silver Age (E.S. Sonina)

Forms of Interaction with Readers on the Pages of Pre-Revolutionary Specialized Magazines (Based on the Materials of Bibliographic Periodicals) (Е.Yu. Gordeeva) 

Section II

TEXTS AND SOURCES

Correspondence between A.A. Izmailov and I.I. Yasinsky (1915–1916) (A.S. Alexandrov)
[27 letters] / Text preparation and commentaries by A.S. Alexandrov 

“... I Will Be Very Demanding of You”: Letters from Dmitry Filosofov to Korney Chukovsky (1908–1919) (S.V. Fedotova, A.L. Sobolev)
[22 letters] / Text preparation and commentaries by S.V. Fedotova, A.L. Sobolev 

“Mourning Hurray”: a Historical and Poetic Commentary on the Literary Page of the Futurists in the Newspaper Nov’ (R.A. Poddubtsev) 

“I Saw All THis...” I. Babel in the Newspaper Novaya Zhizn’ (E.I. Pogorelskaya) .
I. Babel. First Aid; About Horses; Undermatched; Broken; Maternity Palace; Evacuees; Mosaic; Zavedenice; About a Georgian, a Kerenka and a General’s Daughter (Something Modern); Blind; Evening; I Stood Behind; The Beast is Silent; Finns; New Way of Life; The Case on Nevsky; His Holiness Patriarch / Text preparation and commentaries by E.I. Pogorelskaya

Section III

APPENDIX

Magazine Bogema (1915): Content List with Callouts (A.L. Sobolev) 

The Newspaper Nov’ and the Supplement Utrennij Telefon “Novi”: List of Contents (R.A. Poddubtsev) 

Experience in Painting Archival Materials Dedicated to the Newspaper Russkoye Slovo(O.I. Shapkina) 

Index