By Damiano Rebecchini, Raffaella Vassena
“Reader, the place are you?”, puzzled, within the mid-1880s, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, one of many Russian writers that paid the main consciousness to the readership of his time. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s name didn't pass unanswered. over the last centuries, a number of disciplines – from the social sciences to psychology, literary feedback, semiotics, historiography and bibliography – alternately attempted to stipulate the categorical positive aspects of the Russian reader and examine his functionality within the background of Russian literary civilization. The essays accumulated during this quantity persist with within the culture yet, while, current new demanding situations to the improvement of the self-discipline. The individuals, coming from a number of international locations and various cultures (Russia, the USA, Italy, France, Britain), speak about the topic of examining in Russia – from the age of Catherine II to the Soviet regime – from quite a few views: from aesthetics to reception, from the research of person or collective practices, to the exploration of the social functionality of analyzing, to the unfold and evolution of editorial codecs. The contributions during this quantity go back a wealthy and articulated portrait of a tradition made up of nice readers.
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Opyt, metodika i obraztsy krest’ianskoi kritiki sovremennoi khudozhestvennoi literatury, Moskva, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo (5th edition, Moskva, Kniga, 1982). , 1977a, “Literaturnyi fakt” (1924), in Idem, Poetika. Istoriia literatury. Kino, podgot. izd. E. P. O. Chudakovoi, Moskva, Nauka: 255–269. ––, 1977b, “Oda kak oratorskii zhanr” (1927), in Idem, Poetika. Istoriia literatury. Kino: 227–252. ––, 1977c, “O literaturnoi evoliutsii” (1927), in Idem, Poetika. Istoriia literatury. Kino: 270–281.
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3 Заголовок статьи Сумарокова, безусловно, программный: он указывает на то, что проблематичным является не содержание романов, а их чтение, как практика. Обратим внимание также на то, что окончательное осуждение жанра (“Пользы от них мало, а вреда много”), которое, как представляется, относится к содержанию романов, в статье никак не аргументировано, что тоже указывает на смещение проблематики в сторону восприятия романа. Первое замечание текста полемично. На самом деле, даже если учесть общепринятое преувеличение действительности, производимое при помощи гиперболы, это утверждение, высказанное в виде явно комического оборота (“половину библиотеки целаго света”), с трудом скрывает неточность факта, который оно осуждает.