Vadim V Polonsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 9455002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vadim V Polonsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vadim V |
| FAMILY NAME | Polonsky |
| SIGNATURE | POLONSKY V V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gorky Institute of World Literature |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0491-2088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Two Models of Modernist Symbolization of the City
Russian Silver Age culture appropriates Paris as a mythopoetic and cultural-symbolic locus, encompassing two mutually reversible hypostases: the cradle of Modernity, bearing the spirit of Revolution, Liberty, and creativity, grounded in the centuries-old Latin culture, and the international movement of Modernist artists of the contemporary era. The article presents two representative models for the symbolization of Paris as the New Rome / New Bab…
“The Fall of Paris” as “the End of Modernism”
The article analyzes Ilya Ehrenbourg’s novel “The Fall of Paris&8j1; (1942) against the background of synchronic and diachronic cultural contexts. The author pays special attention to the mythologization of Paris from the middle of the 19th century and to the ideological consequences of the country’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The work reconstructs the system of Ehrenbourg’s “eschatological journalism&8j1; during the First World W…
Semantic Sfumato
In despite of the prevailing conclusions, Dmitry Merezhkovsky as a novelist works quite scrupulously with historical sources. However, he subjects them to a significant semantic transformation. In this sense, the case with the novel “The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate&8j1; (1895) is especially representative. Here the material of the main source, “Roman History&8j1; (Res gestae) by Ammianus Marcellinus, is systematically fictionalized acc…
Thirst for Apocalyptic Whirlwinds and Creating a New World
In the article, specific attention is paid to the factors that define the development of Russian literature at the most critical stages of the previous century. Especially, it dwells on the Russian revolution of 1917 and its most immediate consequence: creating Soviet Art. The author demonstrates that for many figures of Russian Modernism an orientation towards total social and cultural collapse was part of their aesthetic program. The Revolution…
Dostoevsky, or “the Writer Who Reformed a Human Being…”
The author emphasizes the unique role of Dostoevsky as a founding father of artistic anthropology of the total crisis of world culture in 19th–21st centuries. There is offered a survey of responses to Dostoevsky’s writings, ranging from critique and opinion pieces by Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, and Hermann Hesse to debates about the writer by the members of Le Studio Franco-Russe, which used to gather in 1929–1931, in Paris. Special attention is …
Documented History of the “World Literature” Publishing House
The aim of our study is to analyze the financial aspect of the history of the publishing house “World Literature” bearing on the material of the state archives (Maxim Gorky Archive of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in particular). The archival materials demonstrate that the main factor in gaining access to finance in the early years of the RSFSR were personal relations that had become the only reli…
Philology vs Philosophy? In Search of the Exit from the Interpretative Dead Еnd
The author claims that interpretation has become a key element among epistemological tools of the 20th Century humanities as the result of conflicting interference of philological and philosophical methods. Since the 1960s, there have been attempts in literary studies to resist the expansion of interpretative models that often bear on subjective and ideological speculations and borrow from the methodology of other disciplines. The essay gives a g…
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Philology vs Philosophy? In Search of the Exit from the Interpretative Dead Еnd
The author claims that interpretation has become a key element among epistemological tools of the 20th Century humanities as the result of conflicting interference of philological and philosophical methods. Since the 1960s, there have been attempts in literary studies to resist the expansion of interpretative models that often bear on subjective and ideological speculations and borrow from the methodology of other disciplines. The essay gives a g…
Documented History of the “World Literature” Publishing House
The aim of our study is to analyze the financial aspect of the history of the publishing house “World Literature” bearing on the material of the state archives (Maxim Gorky Archive of the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in particular). The archival materials demonstrate that the main factor in gaining access to finance in the early years of the RSFSR were personal relations that had become the only reli…
Dostoevsky, or “the Writer Who Reformed a Human Being…”
The author emphasizes the unique role of Dostoevsky as a founding father of artistic anthropology of the total crisis of world culture in 19th–21st centuries. There is offered a survey of responses to Dostoevsky’s writings, ranging from critique and opinion pieces by Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, and Hermann Hesse to debates about the writer by the members of Le Studio Franco-Russe, which used to gather in 1929–1931, in Paris. Special attention is …
Semantic Sfumato
In despite of the prevailing conclusions, Dmitry Merezhkovsky as a novelist works quite scrupulously with historical sources. However, he subjects them to a significant semantic transformation. In this sense, the case with the novel “The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate&8j1; (1895) is especially representative. Here the material of the main source, “Roman History&8j1; (Res gestae) by Ammianus Marcellinus, is systematically fictionalized acc…
Thirst for Apocalyptic Whirlwinds and Creating a New World
In the article, specific attention is paid to the factors that define the development of Russian literature at the most critical stages of the previous century. Especially, it dwells on the Russian revolution of 1917 and its most immediate consequence: creating Soviet Art. The author demonstrates that for many figures of Russian Modernism an orientation towards total social and cultural collapse was part of their aesthetic program. The Revolution…
“The Fall of Paris” as “the End of Modernism”
The article analyzes Ilya Ehrenbourg’s novel “The Fall of Paris&8j1; (1942) against the background of synchronic and diachronic cultural contexts. The author pays special attention to the mythologization of Paris from the middle of the 19th century and to the ideological consequences of the country’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The work reconstructs the system of Ehrenbourg’s “eschatological journalism&8j1; during the First World W…
Two Models of Modernist Symbolization of the City
Russian Silver Age culture appropriates Paris as a mythopoetic and cultural-symbolic locus, encompassing two mutually reversible hypostases: the cradle of Modernity, bearing the spirit of Revolution, Liberty, and creativity, grounded in the centuries-old Latin culture, and the international movement of Modernist artists of the contemporary era. The article presents two representative models for the symbolization of Paris as the New Rome / New Bab…
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