A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond

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329 Introduction: Toward a History of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Theory and Criticism 1. David Perkins, Is Literary History Possible? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 27. 2. See Peter Hohendahl, The Institution of Criticism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), 13–14; René Wellek, Concepts of Criticism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963), 1–36. 3. Hohendahl, Institution of Criticism, 52. 4. Terry Eagleton, The Function of Criticism (London: Verso, 1991), 9. 5. Ibid., 87. 6. See Jeffrey Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 212. 7. Terry Eagleton, Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory (London: Verso, 1976), 20–21. 8. Hohendahl, Institution of Criticism, 82. 9. Boris Eikhenbaum, “Metody i podkhody,” Knizhnyi ugol 8 (1922): 14. 10. Quoted in Lidiia Ginzburg, Chelovek za pis’mennym stolom (Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel’, 1989), 354. 11. Efim Kurganov, Opoiaz i Arzamas (St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo zhurnala “Zvezda,” 1998), 19. 12. Mikhail Ryklin, Svoboda i zapret: kul’tura v epokhu terrora (Moscow: Logos, ProgressTraditsiia , 2008), 147. 13. See Elizabeth Bruss, Beautiful Theories: The Spectacle of Discourse in Contemporary Criticism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982). 14. Worth mentioning among the studies on literary criticism of the 1920s written during the 1960s–1980s are: L. A. Kishchinskaia, Bor’ba za teoreticheskie osnovy sovetskoi zhurnal’noi kritiki, 1917–1932 gg. (Sverdlovsk: Ural’skii gos. universitet im. A. M. Gor’kogo, 1967); P. A. Bugaenko, A. V. Lunacharskii i sovetskaia literaturnaia kritika (Saratov: Privolzhskoe knizh. izd-vo, 1972); V. Akimov, V sporakh o khudozhestvennom metode: Iz istorii bor’by za sotsialisticheskii realizm (Leningrad: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1979); G. Belaia, Iz istorii sovetskoi literaturnokriticheskoi mysli 20-kh godov: Esteticheskaia kontseptsiia “Perevala” (Moscow: Izd-vo Moskovskogo universiteta, 1985); A. M. Korokotina, Problemy metodologii sovetskoi literaturnoi kritiki v 20-e gg. (Tomsk: Izdatel’stvo Tomskogo universiteta, 1986). 15. See M. O. Chudakova, “Bez gneva i pristrastiia,” Novyi mir 9 (1988): 240–64; O. V. Filimonov , Vremia poiska i obnovleniia: Iz istorii sovetskoi literaturnoi kritiki, 20-e gody (Moscow: Znanie, 1989); E. S. Nezhivoi, Aleksandr Voronskii: Ideal, tipologiia, individual’nost’ (Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Vsesoiuznogo zaochnogo politekhnicheskogo instituta, 1989); G. Belaia, “O vnutrennei Notes svobode khudozhnika: iz opyta kriticheskoi mysli 20-kh godov,” in Kontekst: Literaturnokriticheskie issledovaniia (Moscow: Nauka, 1989), 128–57; Belaia, Don-Kikhoty 20-kh godov: “Pereval” i sud’ba ego idei (Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel’, 1989); V. V. Eidinova, Stil’ khudoznika: Kontseptsiia stilia v literaturnoi kritike 20-kh godov (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1991); Svetlana Laine, Nikolai Bukharin—literaturnyi kritik (Moscow: Znanie, 1991); M. M. Golubkov, Utrachennye al’ternativy: Formirovanie monisticheskoi kontseptsii sovetskoi literaturnoi kritiki, 20-e-30-e gody (Moscow: Nasledie, 1992); E. G. Elina, Literaturnaia kritika i obshchestvennoe soznanie v Sovetskoi Rossii 1920-kh godov (Saratov: Izdatel’stvo Saratovskogo universiteta, 1994); V. V. Perkhin, Russkaia literaturnaia kritika 1930-kh godov (St. Petersburg: Izd-vo. S.-Peterburgskogo universiteta, 1997); E. Dobrenko, Formovka sovetskogo pisatelia: Sotsial’nye i esteticheskie istoki sovetskoi literaturnoi kul’tury (St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1999); H. Günther and E. Dobrenko, ed., Sotsrealisticheskii kanon (St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2000). 16. For a history of Soviet art criticism, see the collection Khudozhestvennaia kritika i obshchestvennoe mnenie, ed. A. Ia. Zis’, et al. (Moscow: Rossiiskii institut iskusstvoznaniia, 1992). 17. On the whole, Koshelev’s harsh review of this book seems justified (see V. Koshelev, “Novoe vino v starye mekha,” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 69 [2004]: 286–91). 18. Closer to providing a more general account are Robert Stacy, Russian Literary Criticism: A Short History (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1974); Holger Siegel, Sowjetische Literaturtheorie (1917–1940): Von der historisch-materialistischen zur marxistisch-leninistischen Literaturtheorie (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1981); Aleksey Gibson, Russian Poetry and Criticism in Paris from 1920 to 1940 (The Hague: Leuxenhoff, 1990, especially part two). 1. Literary Criticism during the Revolution and the Civil War, 1917–1921 The first two sections of this chapter were written by Stefano Garzonio, while the last five sections are by Maria Zalambani. This chapter was translated from Russian by Adam Siegel. 1. See L. Fleishman, R. Khiuz, O. Raevskaia-Khiuz, eds., Russkii Berlin 1921–1923: Po materialam arkhiva B.I. Nikolaevskogo v Guverovskom institute (Paris: YMCA-Press, 1983). 2. On literary life in Odessa during the First World War and the revolution, see the memoirs of A. Bisk, “Odesskaia ‘Literaturka’” and K. Azadovskii’s essay “Aleksandr Bisk i odesskaia ‘Literaturka’,” in Disapora: Novye materialy (Paris: Athenaeum; St. Petersburg: Feniks, 2001), 1: 95–141. Particularly important is V. P. Kupchenko’s...