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Исторический контекст тезиса «у нас нет литературы»
The historical context of the thesis “we have no literature”

Author(s): Marina Zagidullina
Subject(s): Communication studies, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: literary criticism; institutional change; commercialization of literature; literary process;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to modern reconfigurations of the literary process and literature (as a kind of art), experienced in literary criticism as the decline of literature (the thesis “we have no literature” as a statement of the degradation of an art form). The article provides an overview of reflection on this process on Russian “thick journals” (with the emphasis on the position of the well-known Russian critic Anna Kuznetsova), as well as the author’s view on the general transitional state of Russian modern literature.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 40-53
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian