Отправлено: 23.02.17 18:47. Заголовок: Russian Studies in Literature 52(3/4)2016

Вышел в свет номер 3/4 (том 52) журнала Russian Studies in Literature, посвященный российской фантастике:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mrsl20/52/3-4

Много примечательного, в частности:

Vasilii Vladimirskii. Speculative Fiction in Russia and the Alchemy of Renewal. Translated by Kenneth Cargill // Russian Studies in Literature, 2016, Volume 52, Issue 3-4, Pages 274-281.

цитата:

Vasilii Vladimirskii takes science fiction in Russia as an example of how genre fiction can evolve and remain attractive to readers. The article outlines the history of Anglophone science fiction through several phases of evolution but argues that literary conditions in the Soviet Union did not favor the growth of a tenacious literary opposition in science fiction. Vladimirskii is pessimistic about the possibility that speculative fiction in Russia can renew itself by selecting the best marginal works, because the mainstream so dominates that part of the literary market. The first articles about the degradation and imminent death of science fiction began to be published long before the term “science fiction” even came into wide use. Since then only the laziest critics have neglected to repeat this idea. There is much less often a discussion of the mechanisms of self-renewal that are built into “genre” fiction. These have helped the genre to successfully overcome many crises up to the present day. Meanwhile, understanding exactly how this intricate system of levers and counterweights works is perhaps the most important challenge currently facing researchers of Russian speculative fiction.

Это английский перевод статьи:

Василий Владимирский. Российская фантастика и алхимия обновления // Октябрь, 2016, 6, 163-167:

http://magazines.russ.ru/october/2016/6/rossijskaya-fantastika-i-alhimiya-obnovleniya.html

Василий Владимирский – критик, прозаик и журналист. Родился в Ленинграде, живет в Санкт-Петербурге. Окончил Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А.И. Герцена. Автор многочисленных статей и рецензий о фантастической литературе, составитель книжных серий и жанровых антологий. За литературную критику удостоен премий «Серебряный кадуцей» (2001), «Бронзовый кадуцей» (2004), «Хлёсткий критик» (2012), за прозу – премии «Интерпресскон» (2009).

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