About the author:
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.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-9468
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Abstract:
The article opens with an overview of the current state of the problem, which shows that, while there are many separate literary histories, to date there are no works exploring the origin and development of literary history as a genre of scientific and fictional prose, inscribing the genre of literary history in the world literary process. It is indicated that the 32 articles included in the book are divided into six sections. The book answers the questions: the emergence of the form and word envelope of the genre of “history of literature”, sources of information on the history of literature before the appearance of works of this genre; peculiarities of the author’s “literary histories”; the subject of the history of literature in education; publication of translations and newly discovered documents. The history of the genre covers a time period from the 2 nd century AD. to the beginning of the 21st century. The geography of research covers the countries of Western Europe, Russia, Japan.