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Title of the article: |
ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FICTION IN EARLY MODERNISM (FROM VALERY BRYUSOV'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH MIKHAIL SAMYGIN) |
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Author(s): |
Andrey L. Yurganov |
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Information about the author/authors |
Andrey L. Yurganov — DSc in History, Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya Sq., 6, 125993 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: Iurganov@yandex.ru |
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Section |
Theory and history of culture |
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Year |
2019 |
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Volume |
Vol. 52 |
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Pages |
pp. 8–19 |
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Received |
September 06, 2018 |
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Date of publication |
June 28, 2019 |
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Index UDK |
008+821.161.1 |
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Index BBK |
83.3(2Рос=Рус)53+87+ 71.0 |
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Abstract |
The correspondence between two major figures of Russian modernism, poet Valery Bryusov and Mikhail Samygin (writer Mark Krinitsky) began in 1895. Both of them were engaged in philosophy, prone to discussing philosophical aspects of the artistic creativity. This correspondence from the late 19th century was the earliest discussion of the philosophical problems of modernist fiction. It expressed the main direction of the search — the rationale for creativity not as the comprehension of a new knowledge, but as an in-depth study of the outer world of personality, creating a world in and around itself. Whereas Valery Bryusov remained a microcosmist for a long time, Mikhail Samygin after the dispute under study was carried away by the revision of his and others' stereotypes concerning the theory of literature. Each of them went his own way, yet together they postulated essentially the same thing — phenomenological significance of the individual as a constitutive basis of existence. |
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Keywords |
Valery Bryusov, Mark Krinitsky, Modernism, Leibnitz monology, phenomenology, Silver Age. |
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References |
1 Kul'ius S. Formirovanie esteticheskikh vzgliadov V. Briusova i filosofiia Leibnitsa [Formation of V. Bryusov's aesthetic views and philosophy of Leibniz]. Tipologiia literaturnykh vzaimodeistvii. Trudy po russkoi i slavianskoi filologii. Literaturovedenie. Uchenye zapiski Tartusskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Typology of literary interactions. Works on Russian and Slavic Philology. Literary study. Bulletin of Tartu state University]. Tartu, Izdatel'stvo TGU Publ., 1983, vol. 620, pp. 50–63. (In Russian) 2 Trifonova N. A. Pis'ma k M. V. Samyginu (1897–1903) [Letters to M. V. Samygin (1897–1903) ]. Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], executive edited by N. A. Trifonova. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1991. Vol. 98: Valerii Briusov i ego korrespondenty [Valery Bryusov and his correspondents]. Book 1. 831 p. (In Russian) |
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