On some features of post-soviet polemics (based on a review in the “Voprosy literatury” journal)
- Authors: Esaulov I.А.1
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Affiliations:
- The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- Issue: Vol 19, No 2 (2021)
- Pages: 387-406
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9479/article/view/284453
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2021.9422
- ID: 284453
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Abstract
The article critically examines some techniques used in post-Soviet polemics based on the material from E. Abdullayev’s polemic note “New Understanding and Old Myths” (book review of Esaulov I. A. Russian Classics: New Understanding. St. Petersburg, Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy Publ., 2017) and traces the dependence of the interpretation and evaluation of the literary scientific system on the axiological views of the author of the description. At the same time, it demonstrates the influence of axiology on evaluation of philological work. The negative ideologems of the Soviet philological science and their presence in the philological practice of our time are revealed. A reduced understanding of the task of historical poetics (and poetics in general), which is characteristic of both Soviet philology and influential post-Soviet publications, prevents the construction of a new history of Russian literature and the identification of the role and place of Christian tradition in the text and subtext of works of Russian classical literature.
About the authors
I. А. Esaulov
The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
Author for correspondence.
Email: jesaulov@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5065-2088
PhD (Philology), Professor of the Department of Russian Classical Literature and Slavic Studies
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