Svetlana Efimova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Efimova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Efimova |
| SIGNATURE | EFIMOVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4838-6454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Memory and media in the twenty-first century
Media shape our memories. Humans have created external records to support remembering for thousands of years, ranging from cave paintings to archives, monuments, bodily practices, and printed books (see, for example, Donald 2001 ; Heersmink 2024 ). Media are used by both individuals and groups seeking to preserve and, at the same time, shape their identities and narratives of the past. This collection on “Memory and Media in the Twenty-First Cent…
Multiperspectival war memory in contemporary Czech and Russian graphic novels for young people
Cultural memory studies have revealed that the choice of medium can significantly affect the manner in which memories are recalled. This article investigates reflexive engagement with opposing perspectives on past military conflicts (agonistic memory) from the methodological standpoint of literary studies. Are there specific forms of representation that encourage readers to engage with multiple perspectives on the past? Focusing on verbal and vis…
From Gulag to Fairy Tales
In the 1950s–1980s, working as children’s book designers enabled many Soviet nonconformist artists to have a recognized role within the system. This article introduces an interdisciplinary and intermedial perspective on Soviet children’s book illustration by focusing on the work of Boris Sveshnikov (1927–1998). The artist established his visual style while imprisoned in the Gulag. After his release and exoneration, he transferred this graphic aes…
Prosa im Plural? Versuch einer Mereologie des Prosabegriffes
Prosa
“Prose” refers to a largely free mode of speaking and writing that is not tethered to any normative form, and which permits a wide range of composition styles due to the openness of its content and form. In 18 chapters, this volume makes “prose” – an important but thus far insufficiently examined category of literary studies – the subject of historical, methodological, and theoretical investigations.
The October Revolution as the Passion of Christ
This article offers a new interpretation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago in the cultural and historical context of the first half of the 20th century, with an emphasis on the interrelationship between religion and philosophy of history in the text. Doctor Zhivago is analysed as a condensed representation of a religious conception of Russian history between 1901 and 1953 and as a cyclical repetition of the Easter narrative. This bipartit…
Clerk or Heretic? The Problem of ‘Profession’ and ‘Life-Creation’ in the Nonfiction of Evgenij Zamjatin After 1917
The article explores the literary and self-described worldview of Evgenij Zamjatin after the October Revolution. In three ‘autobiographies’ from the 1920s he stressed the crucial role of the 1917 events in his destiny. Post-revolutionary years witnessed an explosion of Zamjatin’s nonfiction, whereby the issue of self-determining in the face of a new Russia was pervasive. His articles and interviews from the 1920s and 1930s, at first sight, give t…
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Clerk or Heretic? The Problem of ‘Profession’ and ‘Life-Creation’ in the Nonfiction of Evgenij Zamjatin After 1917
The article explores the literary and self-described worldview of Evgenij Zamjatin after the October Revolution. In three ‘autobiographies’ from the 1920s he stressed the crucial role of the 1917 events in his destiny. Post-revolutionary years witnessed an explosion of Zamjatin’s nonfiction, whereby the issue of self-determining in the face of a new Russia was pervasive. His articles and interviews from the 1920s and 1930s, at first sight, give t…
Prosa im Plural? Versuch einer Mereologie des Prosabegriffes
Prosa
“Prose” refers to a largely free mode of speaking and writing that is not tethered to any normative form, and which permits a wide range of composition styles due to the openness of its content and form. In 18 chapters, this volume makes “prose” – an important but thus far insufficiently examined category of literary studies – the subject of historical, methodological, and theoretical investigations.
The October Revolution as the Passion of Christ
This article offers a new interpretation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago in the cultural and historical context of the first half of the 20th century, with an emphasis on the interrelationship between religion and philosophy of history in the text. Doctor Zhivago is analysed as a condensed representation of a religious conception of Russian history between 1901 and 1953 and as a cyclical repetition of the Easter narrative. This bipartit…
From Gulag to Fairy Tales
In the 1950s–1980s, working as children’s book designers enabled many Soviet nonconformist artists to have a recognized role within the system. This article introduces an interdisciplinary and intermedial perspective on Soviet children’s book illustration by focusing on the work of Boris Sveshnikov (1927–1998). The artist established his visual style while imprisoned in the Gulag. After his release and exoneration, he transferred this graphic aes…
Memory and media in the twenty-first century
Media shape our memories. Humans have created external records to support remembering for thousands of years, ranging from cave paintings to archives, monuments, bodily practices, and printed books (see, for example, Donald 2001 ; Heersmink 2024 ). Media are used by both individuals and groups seeking to preserve and, at the same time, shape their identities and narratives of the past. This collection on “Memory and Media in the Twenty-First Cent…
Multiperspectival war memory in contemporary Czech and Russian graphic novels for young people
Cultural memory studies have revealed that the choice of medium can significantly affect the manner in which memories are recalled. This article investigates reflexive engagement with opposing perspectives on past military conflicts (agonistic memory) from the methodological standpoint of literary studies. Are there specific forms of representation that encourage readers to engage with multiple perspectives on the past? Focusing on verbal and vis…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)