Jessica Merrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Merrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrill |
| SIGNATURE | MERRILL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folk Genres
This chapter provides a short history of folklore collection and an overview of the genres privileged by Russian folklorists. In the early 1800s, folklorists began writing down, editing, and publishing creative oral performance, primarily that of peasants, because it was thought that these performances reflected ancient traditions that had been passed down for centuries. In the course of transforming oral culture into print collections, genres we…
Historical Poetics and Poetic Language
The article seeks to establish the intellectual history of the Russian formalists' concept of poetic language. Focusing on Roman Jakobson and the Moscow Linguistic Circle, it argues that the study of poetic language drew on Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics, historical dialectology, associationist psychology, and avant-garde ideology. This is in contrast to claims that Russian formalism was from the start inspired by Saussurean structural…
High Modernism in Theory and Practice
This article compares Tomáš Bata's development of Zlín as a company town with the architectural theory of Karel Teige. Despite political differences- Bat'a was a champion of "American" capitalism, Teige a leader of the leftist avant-garde-they had unexpectedly similar ideas about architectural design and city planning. The article uses James C. Scott's definition of high modernism as a starting point to explain these commonalities, historically c…
The Stalinist Subject and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
The article argues that Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita critiques the dominant Soviet ideology of the 1930s from a position that is at the same time informed by a Stalinist subjectivity. Recent work on Soviet subjectivity suggests that the Stalinist subject was produced from a hybrid of messianic spirituality and liberal self‐fashioning. Bulgakov's novel provisionally separates these two worldviews into the two worlds of his novel–Moscow and …
Historical Poetics and Poetic Language
The article seeks to establish the intellectual history of the Russian formalists' concept of poetic language. Focusing on Roman Jakobson and the Moscow Linguistic Circle, it argues that the study of poetic language drew on Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics, historical dialectology, associationist psychology, and avant-garde ideology. This is in contrast to claims that Russian formalism was from the start inspired by Saussurean structural…
High Modernism in Theory and Practice
This article compares Tomáš Bata's development of Zlín as a company town with the architectural theory of Karel Teige. Despite political differences- Bat'a was a champion of "American" capitalism, Teige a leader of the leftist avant-garde-they had unexpectedly similar ideas about architectural design and city planning. The article uses James C. Scott's definition of high modernism as a starting point to explain these commonalities, historically c…
The Stalinist Subject and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
The article argues that Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita critiques the dominant Soviet ideology of the 1930s from a position that is at the same time informed by a Stalinist subjectivity. Recent work on Soviet subjectivity suggests that the Stalinist subject was produced from a hybrid of messianic spirituality and liberal self‐fashioning. Bulgakov's novel provisionally separates these two worldviews into the two worlds of his novel–Moscow and …
Historical Poetics and Poetic Language
The article seeks to establish the intellectual history of the Russian formalists' concept of poetic language. Focusing on Roman Jakobson and the Moscow Linguistic Circle, it argues that the study of poetic language drew on Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics, historical dialectology, associationist psychology, and avant-garde ideology. This is in contrast to claims that Russian formalism was from the start inspired by Saussurean structural…
High Modernism in Theory and Practice
This article compares Tomáš Bata's development of Zlín as a company town with the architectural theory of Karel Teige. Despite political differences- Bat'a was a champion of "American" capitalism, Teige a leader of the leftist avant-garde-they had unexpectedly similar ideas about architectural design and city planning. The article uses James C. Scott's definition of high modernism as a starting point to explain these commonalities, historically c…
Folk Genres
This chapter provides a short history of folklore collection and an overview of the genres privileged by Russian folklorists. In the early 1800s, folklorists began writing down, editing, and publishing creative oral performance, primarily that of peasants, because it was thought that these performances reflected ancient traditions that had been passed down for centuries. In the course of transforming oral culture into print collections, genres we…
Art (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)