scholarly journals Formulaicity as the Basis for Plot Construction in the Novels of Lydia Charskaya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Iurevna Ryzhikh
Keyword(s):  
Mass Literature

The article examines the work of Lydia Charskaya in the context of mass literature, the inherent prose of the writer’s formula and its relation to the gendered character characteristics.

scholarly journals Interiorization Phenomenon within the Plots of the Fantastic Tales by F. V. Bulgarin (1820–1840s)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Margarita F. Klimentyeva
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The One

The paper focuses on the analyses of the interiorization phenomena in the fantastic (utopian and dystopian) tales by Faddey Bulgarin that he wrote and published between 1825 and 1846. The tales came out in such periodicals as Severnyy archiv, Literturnye zapiski, Syn otechestva. The study of the texts allows to assume that Rus-sian mass literature born within magazine prose was characterized by the interiorization of plots. The latter led to the formation of an adaptive hab-itus entirely assimilated by the Russian cultural and social discourses around the 1830–1840s. The study of the texts by Bulgarin (which in terms of genre can be identified either as journal manifestos or literary works of different genres) indicates his conscious orientation on the reader, the intended involvement of the reader into the literary and would-be-literary life of an artistic word. On the one hand, that could be the echo of the tradition established by the Enlighteners who educated the reader via literary words, thus shaping his or her ethics and esthetics. On the other hand, that could be the reflection of the interiorization phenomenon that is the structural transposition of a text (text structure) into the internal structure of the reader’s mind. We suggest that the interiorization phenomenon and the shaping of the mass literature are interconnected; the adaptive habitus born in the magazine prose in the mid-1820s – the early 1840s determined the energy of mind and the peculiarities of thinking of the mass reader. Despite almost no narrator addressing the reader in the fantastic tales, the reader finds him- or herself indirectly present throughout the texts as an addressee of the interiorization. The discursive strategy adopted by Bulgarin consists of the transformation of the reader’s mind patterns into the adaptive habitus of mass literature.

scholarly journals FOR A MASS READER? NARINE ABGARYAN

2018 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
M. Kulgavchuk
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Dramatic Improvement ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Careful Treatment ◽  
Mass Literature

The article considers the works of a contemporary writer, winner of the Yasnaya Polyana 2016, N. Abgaryan in the context of the thinning borderline between mass and non-mass literature. Along with trying to make her readers laugh or shed a sympathetic tear (That Broad That’s Just Moved In [Ponaekhavshaya], 2011), Abgaryan has another agenda of showing the daily life of modern Armenia and its tragic history (People Who Are Always with Me [Lyudi, kotorie vsegda so mnoy], 2014), and insisting on a careful treatment of the single individual, of their past and future. The author argues that, after epitomizing the worst taste in the period between the 20th and the 21st centuries, mass literature has moved on to show a dramatic improvement of quality in the 2010s, as evidenced in N. Abgaryan’s works.

scholarly journals Traduzir vidas, mundos e fantasias: Carolina Invernizio e a letteratura d’appendice italiana no Brasil / Translating Lives, Worlds and Fantasies: Carolina Invernizio and Italian letteratura d’appendice in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Silvia La Regina
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
Means Of Production

Resumo: Este trabalho objetiva apresentar sumariamente a letteratura d’appendice (o folhetim) italiana de Carolina Invernizio, talvez sua maior representante, e seus desenvolvimentos posteriores. A metodologia é essencialmente a da pesquisa bibliográfica. Após definir a literatura de massa com base em Gramsci, Eco e Sodré, o texto analisa a recepção de Invernizio e seus epígonos no Brasil e na América espanhola de 1880 a 1935, apresentando um breve panorama das traduções publicadas nesses países e buscando identificar os meios de produção e fruição do gênero, e seu sucessivo desaparecimento, ou suas transformações. A conclusão inicial diz respeito à manutenção, ainda hoje, do recalque do gênero, considerado menor e não literário justamente por conta de suas características populares.Palavras-chave: Carolina Invernizio; folhetim; literatura de massa; Liala; tradução.Abstract: This work aims at presenting the Italian Carolina Invernizio’s way of letteratura d’appendice (otherwise known as feuilleton), of which she may have been its greatest example, and its later developments With a bibliographic research methodology, after defining mass literature according to Gramsci, Eco and Sodré, the text analyzes the reception of Invernizio and its literary descendants in Brazil and Spanish America from 1880 to 1935, presenting a brief overview of the translations published in these countries. We try to identify the means of production and use of the genre and its later disappearance, or its transformation. The initial conclusion concerns the maintenance, even today, of the repression and silencing of the genre, seen as minor and non-literary precisely because of its popular characteristics.Keywords: Carolina Invernizio; feuilleton; mass literature; Liala; translation.

scholarly journals Speech genre “Reminder” in contemporary mass literature

2014 ◽  
Vol 9-10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 132-137
Author(s):  
Valentina Danilovna Chernyak ◽  
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Mariya Aleksandrovna Chernyak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Literature ◽  
Speech Genre

scholarly journals МАССОВАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА: К ИСТОРИИ ВОПРОСА ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ НА ПОСТСОВЕТСКОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (XIX) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Татьяна Хайдер
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Mass Literature ◽  
Philosophical Criticism ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Literary Methods

At the end of the twentieth century, the phenomenon of mass culture was the focusof scholarly attention with an ever increasing frequency: theorists of literature andcultural studies, as well as philosophers have developed a number of approaches to thestudy of popular culture: social, ideological and semiotic. Contemporary researchersare increasingly attracted to the question of the semiotic culture. In this regard, mass culture and accordingly literature are more and more frequently treated not only asa system of signs, but in fact as a sign itself.J. Lotman conducts his analysis through the prism of the literary process and hisresearch methodology is based on literary methods. Once marginal (from the standpointof the official literary and philosophical criticism), mass literature is going throughthe phase of ennoblement. It is dual-track in its “intergrowth” and is already facingup the oversignificant new system of modern cultural codes, while still being rootedin the low culture with its specific character of the text encoding. Therefore, followingthe principle of semiotic analysis, it is inevitable to take into account the interactionof several sign systems while considering the formative dynamics of the modern genrethemedversion of popular literature.

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