Andreas Schönle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1172953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Schönle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Schönle |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÖNLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5897-0489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Calendar Reform under Peter the Great: Absolutist Prerogatives, Plural Temporalities, and Christian Exceptionalism
The calendar reforms of Peter the Great introduced on January 1, 1700 have produced a surprising amount of confusion and misunderstanding. This articles proposes firstly to clarify the aims and outcomes of these reforms, so far as the available sources allow. Secondly, through an examination of the New Year celebrations mandated by Peter's edicts, the article examines the legitimating arguments that have been deployed, including ideas about Russi…
Political Economy, Civic Virtue, and the Subjective World of the Elite, 1780–1825
It is well know that political economy became a fashionable discipline at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Russia, both in academic and government circles. Yet little has been written about the broader impact of political economy on the nobility, especially the upper nobility, which after all assumed important economic functions through the management of its vast estates. To explore this impact and shed light in particular on its subjec…
Aristocratic Subjectivity in Revolutionary Turmoil: I.I. Bariatinskii’s “Coup d’œil sur Genève” (1791)
This article revisits a vexed question in Russian historiography, the extent of the immediate influence on Russia’s best minds of the revolutionary events of the early 1790s. It considers the writings of Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinskii (1772‐1825), who may have witnessed a short period of the French Revolution in Paris in 1790, before going to Geneva to study and becoming an observer of street unrest and revolutionary fervour in the cité de Ca…
Introduction. Les défis de la condition post-postsocialiste: Architecture et histoire en Europe centrale et orientale
À l’heure actuelle, les villes ex-socialistes de l’Europe centrale et orientale se trouvent dans une période que l’on pourrait qualifier de post-postsocialiste. Plus de vingt-cinq ans après la chute du Mur de Berlin, l’urgence d’une réaction contre l’urbanisme socialiste s’est estompée et la rhétorique de transition, avec sa téléologie néolibérale implicite, ne convainc plus personne. Depuis sont intervenus d’autres événements d’envergure, tels l…
« Localisme agressif » et « globalisme local » – La poétique des villes postsocialistes en Europe centrale
La poétique du « localisme agressif » et du « globalisme local » réunit les œuvres des écrivains Andrzej Stasiuk (Pologne), Jáchym Topol (République tchèque) et Jana Beňová (Slovaquie). Tous trois se font l’écho des révolutions de 1989 en Europe centrale et orientale et, plus spécifiquement, explorent la façon dont cette rupture a transformé leurs sociétés en entités postsocialistes. Dans cette perspective, ils envisagent Varsovie, Prague et Brat…
Ewa Bérard, Pétersbourg impérial: Nicolas II, la ville, les arts
Ce bel ouvrage est consacré aux dernières décennies du Pétersbourg impérial. Il se propose de retracer le dialogue, les négociations, et les conflits qui se développèrent entre la cour, la classe bourgeoise des réformateurs et les artistes quant au devenir de la ville. Au-delà de l’aménagement urbain rendu nécessaire par l’afflux de la paysannerie déracinée par les réformes agraires, l’enjeu de ces tractations complexes fut non seulement la const…
Broken History and Crumbling Stones: The Romantic Conception of Architectural Preservation
In this article Andreas Schönle explores the treatment of ruins in the Romantic period, in particular the propensity toward holistic reconstruction, rather than preservation of architectural heritage. He argues that the Romantic disregard of extant heritage harks back to the Sentimentalist infatuation with the fleetingness of life and dramatization of loss, that this melancholy feeling stoked a sense of national victimization, and that it legitim…
Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia
Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia—from Catherine the Great's construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky's elegiac meditations—ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for leveling churches, post-Soviet Russia has only intensified the practice of massive destruction and reconstruction. Architecture of Oblivion examines the role of ruins in…
Between the Iconic and the Symbolic: The Ruin Photographs of Boris Smirnov and the Aesthetics of Trauma
This article examines the photographs of ruined East European and German cities which amateur photographer Boris Smirnov took in 1945 when he was sent to Germany to study the Nazis’ camouflage techniques. Cast in an aesthetically alert and self-consciously stylized idiom, his ruin photography presents a figurative expression of trauma, free of the requisite heroic inflections of Soviet representations of the war. His works reveal a suggestive emp…
Resolution scaling in STED microscopy
We undertake a comprehensive study of the inverse square root dependence of spatial resolution on the saturation factor in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy and generalize it to account for various focal depletion patterns. We used an experimental platform featuring a high quality depletion pattern which results in operation close to the optimal optical performance. Its superior image brightness and uniform effective resolution <25 …
Ruins and History: Observations on Russian Approaches to Destruction and Decay
This article surveys theories of ruins and discusses their applicability to Russian history and culture. It identifies four major approaches to ruins: the ruin as a site of freedom from social norms and practices (Denis Diderot, Peter Fritzsche, Tim Edensor), the ruin as a reconciliation with nature (Georg Simmel), the ruin as the affirmation of modernity at the expense of the past (Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno), and the ruin as the emblem o…
Lotman and cultural studies: The case for cross-fertilization
This paper seeks to evaluate the extent to which Lotman’s theoretical works could provide a conceptual articulation to the project of British and American cultural studies (CS). Just as CS, Lotman operates with an extensive concept of culture, albeit one mostly limited to nobility culture and focused on the past. His late works can be seen to articulate a semiotic theory of power: his emphasis on the relationship between center and periphery reca…
Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of Michigan
Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of Michigan
Social Power and Individual Agency: The Self in Greenblatt and Lotman
Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea
This paper investigates the ramifications of the garden trope, as Catherine the Great and Grigorii Potemkin applied it to the Crimea after Russia's annexation in 1783. Schönle argues that Catherine conceived of the province as a kind of garden and that she did so in order to bolster the identification of the Crimea with the garden of Eden and thus appeal to the paradise myth that became an intrinsic part of Russia's ideology of imperial power. Th…
Gogol, the Picturesque, and the Desire for the People: AReading of “Rome”
Of Sublimity, Shrinkage, and Selfhood in the Works of Bruno Schulz
Examinant le theme du soi, de la perception et du monde dans l'oeuvre de B. Schulz, l'A. se propose d'inscrire les romans modernistes de Schulz dans la tradition intellectuelle de la philosophie continentale, en general, et de relier la problematique de la depersonnalisation du sujet chez Schulz a la reflexion sur la categorie du sublime chez Kant, en particulier. Tracant l'histoire de la conceptualisation du sublime des poetes romantiques a J.-F…
The Scare of the Self: Sentimentalism, Privacy, and Private Life in Russian Culture, 1780-1820
This century may be called the century of openness in the physical and moral sense: look at our sweet beauties! ... Before people used to hide in dark homes behind the cover of high fences. Nowadays, one sees bright homes everywhere with large windows facing the street: please look in! We want to live, act, and think behind a transparent glass-Nikolai Karamzin, Moia ispoved
Ruins and History: Observations on Russian Approaches to Destruction and Decay
This article surveys theories of ruins and discusses their applicability to Russian history and culture. It identifies four major approaches to ruins: the ruin as a site of freedom from social norms and practices (Denis Diderot, Peter Fritzsche, Tim Edensor), the ruin as a reconciliation with nature (Georg Simmel), the ruin as the affirmation of modernity at the expense of the past (Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno), and the ruin as the emblem o…
Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea
This paper investigates the ramifications of the garden trope, as Catherine the Great and Grigorii Potemkin applied it to the Crimea after Russia's annexation in 1783. Schönle argues that Catherine conceived of the province as a kind of garden and that she did so in order to bolster the identification of the Crimea with the garden of Eden and thus appeal to the paradise myth that became an intrinsic part of Russia's ideology of imperial power. Th…
The Scare of the Self: Sentimentalism, Privacy, and Private Life in Russian Culture, 1780-1820
This century may be called the century of openness in the physical and moral sense: look at our sweet beauties! ... Before people used to hide in dark homes behind the cover of high fences. Nowadays, one sees bright homes everywhere with large windows facing the street: please look in! We want to live, act, and think behind a transparent glass-Nikolai Karamzin, Moia ispoved
Broken History and Crumbling Stones: The Romantic Conception of Architectural Preservation
In this article Andreas Schönle explores the treatment of ruins in the Romantic period, in particular the propensity toward holistic reconstruction, rather than preservation of architectural heritage. He argues that the Romantic disregard of extant heritage harks back to the Sentimentalist infatuation with the fleetingness of life and dramatization of loss, that this melancholy feeling stoked a sense of national victimization, and that it legitim…
Lotman and cultural studies: The case for cross-fertilization
This paper seeks to evaluate the extent to which Lotman’s theoretical works could provide a conceptual articulation to the project of British and American cultural studies (CS). Just as CS, Lotman operates with an extensive concept of culture, albeit one mostly limited to nobility culture and focused on the past. His late works can be seen to articulate a semiotic theory of power: his emphasis on the relationship between center and periphery reca…
Gogol, the Picturesque, and the Desire for the People: AReading of “Rome”
Of Sublimity, Shrinkage, and Selfhood in the Works of Bruno Schulz
Examinant le theme du soi, de la perception et du monde dans l'oeuvre de B. Schulz, l'A. se propose d'inscrire les romans modernistes de Schulz dans la tradition intellectuelle de la philosophie continentale, en general, et de relier la problematique de la depersonnalisation du sujet chez Schulz a la reflexion sur la categorie du sublime chez Kant, en particulier. Tracant l'histoire de la conceptualisation du sublime des poetes romantiques a J.-F…
The Scare of the Self: Sentimentalism, Privacy, and Private Life in Russian Culture, 1780-1820
This century may be called the century of openness in the physical and moral sense: look at our sweet beauties! ... Before people used to hide in dark homes behind the cover of high fences. Nowadays, one sees bright homes everywhere with large windows facing the street: please look in! We want to live, act, and think behind a transparent glass-Nikolai Karamzin, Moia ispoved
Gogol, the Picturesque, and the Desire for the People: AReading of “Rome”
Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of Michigan
Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of Michigan
Social Power and Individual Agency: The Self in Greenblatt and Lotman
Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea
This paper investigates the ramifications of the garden trope, as Catherine the Great and Grigorii Potemkin applied it to the Crimea after Russia's annexation in 1783. Schönle argues that Catherine conceived of the province as a kind of garden and that she did so in order to bolster the identification of the Crimea with the garden of Eden and thus appeal to the paradise myth that became an intrinsic part of Russia's ideology of imperial power. Th…
Lotman and cultural studies: The case for cross-fertilization
This paper seeks to evaluate the extent to which Lotman’s theoretical works could provide a conceptual articulation to the project of British and American cultural studies (CS). Just as CS, Lotman operates with an extensive concept of culture, albeit one mostly limited to nobility culture and focused on the past. His late works can be seen to articulate a semiotic theory of power: his emphasis on the relationship between center and periphery reca…
Ruins and History: Observations on Russian Approaches to Destruction and Decay
This article surveys theories of ruins and discusses their applicability to Russian history and culture. It identifies four major approaches to ruins: the ruin as a site of freedom from social norms and practices (Denis Diderot, Peter Fritzsche, Tim Edensor), the ruin as a reconciliation with nature (Georg Simmel), the ruin as the affirmation of modernity at the expense of the past (Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno), and the ruin as the emblem o…
Resolution scaling in STED microscopy
We undertake a comprehensive study of the inverse square root dependence of spatial resolution on the saturation factor in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy and generalize it to account for various focal depletion patterns. We used an experimental platform featuring a high quality depletion pattern which results in operation close to the optimal optical performance. Its superior image brightness and uniform effective resolution <25 …
Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia
Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia—from Catherine the Great's construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky's elegiac meditations—ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for leveling churches, post-Soviet Russia has only intensified the practice of massive destruction and reconstruction. Architecture of Oblivion examines the role of ruins in…
Between the Iconic and the Symbolic: The Ruin Photographs of Boris Smirnov and the Aesthetics of Trauma
This article examines the photographs of ruined East European and German cities which amateur photographer Boris Smirnov took in 1945 when he was sent to Germany to study the Nazis’ camouflage techniques. Cast in an aesthetically alert and self-consciously stylized idiom, his ruin photography presents a figurative expression of trauma, free of the requisite heroic inflections of Soviet representations of the war. His works reveal a suggestive emp…
Broken History and Crumbling Stones: The Romantic Conception of Architectural Preservation
In this article Andreas Schönle explores the treatment of ruins in the Romantic period, in particular the propensity toward holistic reconstruction, rather than preservation of architectural heritage. He argues that the Romantic disregard of extant heritage harks back to the Sentimentalist infatuation with the fleetingness of life and dramatization of loss, that this melancholy feeling stoked a sense of national victimization, and that it legitim…
Ewa Bérard, Pétersbourg impérial: Nicolas II, la ville, les arts
Ce bel ouvrage est consacré aux dernières décennies du Pétersbourg impérial. Il se propose de retracer le dialogue, les négociations, et les conflits qui se développèrent entre la cour, la classe bourgeoise des réformateurs et les artistes quant au devenir de la ville. Au-delà de l’aménagement urbain rendu nécessaire par l’afflux de la paysannerie déracinée par les réformes agraires, l’enjeu de ces tractations complexes fut non seulement la const…
Introduction. Les défis de la condition post-postsocialiste: Architecture et histoire en Europe centrale et orientale
À l’heure actuelle, les villes ex-socialistes de l’Europe centrale et orientale se trouvent dans une période que l’on pourrait qualifier de post-postsocialiste. Plus de vingt-cinq ans après la chute du Mur de Berlin, l’urgence d’une réaction contre l’urbanisme socialiste s’est estompée et la rhétorique de transition, avec sa téléologie néolibérale implicite, ne convainc plus personne. Depuis sont intervenus d’autres événements d’envergure, tels l…
« Localisme agressif » et « globalisme local » – La poétique des villes postsocialistes en Europe centrale
La poétique du « localisme agressif » et du « globalisme local » réunit les œuvres des écrivains Andrzej Stasiuk (Pologne), Jáchym Topol (République tchèque) et Jana Beňová (Slovaquie). Tous trois se font l’écho des révolutions de 1989 en Europe centrale et orientale et, plus spécifiquement, explorent la façon dont cette rupture a transformé leurs sociétés en entités postsocialistes. Dans cette perspective, ils envisagent Varsovie, Prague et Brat…
Aristocratic Subjectivity in Revolutionary Turmoil: I.I. Bariatinskii’s “Coup d’œil sur Genève” (1791)
This article revisits a vexed question in Russian historiography, the extent of the immediate influence on Russia’s best minds of the revolutionary events of the early 1790s. It considers the writings of Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinskii (1772‐1825), who may have witnessed a short period of the French Revolution in Paris in 1790, before going to Geneva to study and becoming an observer of street unrest and revolutionary fervour in the cité de Ca…
Political Economy, Civic Virtue, and the Subjective World of the Elite, 1780–1825
It is well know that political economy became a fashionable discipline at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Russia, both in academic and government circles. Yet little has been written about the broader impact of political economy on the nobility, especially the upper nobility, which after all assumed important economic functions through the management of its vast estates. To explore this impact and shed light in particular on its subjec…
Calendar Reform under Peter the Great: Absolutist Prerogatives, Plural Temporalities, and Christian Exceptionalism
The calendar reforms of Peter the Great introduced on January 1, 1700 have produced a surprising amount of confusion and misunderstanding. This articles proposes firstly to clarify the aims and outcomes of these reforms, so far as the available sources allow. Secondly, through an examination of the New Year celebrations mandated by Peter's edicts, the article examines the legitimating arguments that have been deployed, including ideas about Russi…
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