Letter to the Editor. "Orientalism and Russian Literature."

Roman Tsirulev M.A. program: Transcultural Studies, 2 nd semester matriculation number: 335 5080 Binary opposition or Awkward triptych: the debate over Russian Orientalism………..………4 Grigor'ev and Russian attitude to 'the Orient'…………………….………….………………………………15 Conclusion…………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………22 References………………………………….

Vladimir Klavdiyevich Arsenyev’s Literary Framework and its Orientalist Implications: Study on Travelogue in the Russian Far East from a Postcolonial Perspective, 2024

The present thesis seeks to undertake an extensive literary analysis of the multifaceted personality of Vladimir Arsenyev (1872–1930), an explorer, ethnographer, and writer of the Russian Far East. This study includes a discussion of his biographical background to better comprehend the writer's moral upbringing and literary style and engages in an analysis of his most notable works, such as Across the Ussuri Krai and Dersu Uzala, from travel diaries to travelogues, probing into the East-West dichotomy, and the juxtaposition between civilization and nature in his writing. Furthermore, this work employs the theoretical approaches of Orientalism and Postcoloniality to explore the author's relationship with different ethnic groups in the Far East. By categorizing Arsenyev's literature as a colonial travel genre, this thesis offers valuable insights for further research on the literary depiction of the bond between colonizers and the colonized in the Russian Far East.

The Criterion , 2021

The Russian obsession with European culture, predominantly French and English, is not a recent phenomenon. The nation of Russia was always straddled between the two continents of Asia and Europe, and this peculiar geographical position extended into the cultural domain as well. In my Paper, I will be specifically exploring the novel Anna Karenina (1878) by Leo Tolstoy and the novels Crime and Punishment (1866) and Devils (1871) by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Through my Paper, I will be exploring how seminal writers like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky wrestled with the cultural crisis in the nineteenth century Russia brought about by the influx of European ideas such as nihilism, utilitarianism, socialism, atheism etc into the Russian mainland. Keywords: Colonialism, Novels, Ideology, Russian Orthodox Church, Nihilism, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Christianity, Socialism.

Modern Intellectual History, 2007

Susan Layton, Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, paperback version 2005; first edition 1994)Harsha Ram, The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)In the last decades of the Russian Empire, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire made for favorite reading among the intelligentsia. Today imperial themes have become increasingly important in American academia; historians and literary scholars who study Russia are no exception. The two studies under review explore the spirit and the letter of the Russian Empire in the moment of boom and glory preceding its collapse. Published in 1994, Susan Layton's Russian Literature and Empire was the pioneering study of the subject. Published in 2003, Harsha Ram's The Imperial Sublime is so different from Layton's book that the differences, rooted in the American rather than the Russia...

Slavonic and East European Review 98.1, 2020

Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология. 2020. № 67. C. 189-203.

Russian Orientalism as a phenomenon of cultural transfer based on the material of the Russian literature of the 19th century is considered in this article. The author offers to look at the processes of invention the East in Russia not only as a complex of various transformations of European ideas, texts, ideologies, and symbolic structures planted to the Russian soil, but also as an important process of convergence and mixing of Russian, American, and European methodology for studying the Eastern “Otherness”.

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University. Asian and African studies, vol. 12, no. 3., 2020

The book that will be discussed in this review was published quite long ago. It seems to have brought D. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye an international reputation of the leading expert in the field of the history of Russian Oriental studies, although more among the Slavists than the scholars of the Orient. In 2019, a Russian translation was published. It does not present a revised version of the book, therefore my review can be considered regarding both English and Russian editions. <...> What is going to be said below does not mean that the book has no value at all. It is well-written from the stylistic point of view and the reader will probably enjoy it and get a lot of interesting facts about old Russia. My intention is only to warn scholars from uncritical use of this book in regard of the history of Oriental studies in Russia. The paper is available on the website of the Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University. Asian and African studies: https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/issue/view/545?fbclid=IwAR0YjNnJOeFdYX1xot25p405VCFipjqHkvw0byMESuTuH829PiLETq8NN4Q

2015

Slavic and East European Journal. Vol. 50, No. 1 (2006). Pp. 204-212, 2006

Of course, I am no soothsayer, and the answer to my outrageous title is probably dependent more on what happens outside the university than anything that could take place inside its hallowed walls. For all I know, the ongoing transformation in the function of education in American society may render humanistic education utterly obsolete in the coming decades, which would certainly have a "chilling effect" on the study of Russian Literature (Scholes; Drucker). But I do not intend to rehearse the familiar territory of The University in Ruins here (Readings; also see Guillory). What I am concerned with is our very own little comer of the university, the Slavic Department, and my own sub-discipline within it, the study of Russian Literature. What is its outlook for the coming hundred or so years, given favorable, or at least not saltstrewn, institutional soil to grow in? 2 I offer to you that the future does not look so bright.