卷 4, 编号 1 (2022)

This article proposes an interpretation of the horror body as a historical prolongation of Bakhtinian grotesque. I pretend to demonstrate the relevance of the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin in order to study current manifestations where a material bodily principle collaborates with the description of periods of cultural mutations. In the historical transition from cinema to current TV series, the grotesque of body horror surfaces a bodily awareness that reveals our biological and cultural fears, many of which are linked to certain postmodern transformations.

The article deals with two Saransk periods in the biography of M.M. Bakhtin (1936–1937; 1945–1969), gives data about his life at three addresses on Sovetskaya street: (Hotel «Tzentralnaya», hostel for teachers and employees of the Mordovia State Pedagogical institute named after A.I. Polezhaev / Mordovia State University, a residential building for teachers of the Mordovian State University and the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after M.E. Evseviev. It presents some of his former neighbors’ oral memories.

The publication presents a fragment of lectures by M.M. Bakhtin, read at the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute (now N.P. Ogarev Mordovia State University) in the second semester of the 1936/37 academic year and recorded by a Moksha-Mordovian writer, one of the founders of professional Mordovian literature, at that time a student of the Faculty of Literature M.A. Beban (Byabin). The fragment examines the history of the Spanish literature of the XVI–XVII centuries. The topic of the Portuguese literature of the aforementioned period is also touched upon (the work of L. de Camões is briefly analyzed). The features of the development of the main types and genres of the Spanish literature are revealed: epic (the novel – knight, picaresque, pastoral) and dramaturgy. The main attention is paid to the works of M. de Cervantes, F. Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, P. Calderon.

The publication presents a dictionary article prepared for the Bakhtin Encyclopedia.

The publication presents a dictionary article prepared for the Bakhtin Encyclopedia.