Emigrantica. Issue 1: In memoriam of Oleg A. Korostelev

Emigrantica. Issue 1: In memoriam of Oleg A. Korostelev, coll. by Evgeny R. Ponomarev, ed. by Evgeny R. Ponomarev and Manfred Schruba, managing eds. Maksim S. Shchavlinskii, Dmitrii V. Zaitsev. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024. 752 p. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/Emigr.3034-3518-2024-1

Editorial Staff

Evgeny R. Ponomarev (Editor-in-Chief)
Anna V. Protopopova (Deputy Editor-in-Chief)
Dmitrii V. Zaitsev (Editor)
Maksim S. Shchavlinskii (Managing Editor)

Information about Editor-in-Chief: Evgeny R. Ponomarev, DSc in Philology, Leading Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bdg. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia; Professor, F.M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy, 15 Fontanka river emb., 191011 St. Petersburg, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5508-6532

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Abstract

The first issue of the academic series “Emigrantica” is dedicated to the memory of Oleg A. Korostelev and — as an in memoriam publication — is largely focused on the research interests of the late scholar. A special section of the issue is devoted to the analysis of the research heritage of Oleg A. Korostelev. At the same time, the series sets a new format for research into the problems of Russian emigration literature, and also outlines ways of discussing general problems of emigration studies. The issue opens with an article by the editor-in-chief of the series, offering a detailed overview of the study of emigration in Russia over the past decades and outlining the prospects for the development of emigration studies as a separate field of knowledge. The section “General Issues” deals with theoretical and textual problems: a critical analysis of attempts to apply E. Said’s “orientalism” to Russian emigration, the question of the essential difference between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary emigration on the example of N.S. Rusanov. The section “Personae” is devoted to Georgii Adamovich, Ivan Bunin and Aleksei Remizov. The section “Creative Heritage: Poetics, Textual Criticism, Editional Practice” covers the older and younger generation of the first emigration, with two contributions on the second and third emigrations. The section “Emigration and the Metropolis” conceptualises the confrontation and mutual influence of Soviet culture and the culture of the Russian Abroad. The section “Varia” contains works that reveal the influence of Russian culture on European cultures (mainly Italian culture), as well as individual stories about the “Russian voice” in the West. The contributors to the issue include specialists representing the biggest Russian centres of Russian emigration studies, as well as the biggest centres of foreign Slavic studies from eight countries. The publication is addressed to literary critics, historians, and cultural historians studying Russian emigration, as well as to all those interested in the literature and culture of the Russian Abroad.

Keywords: emigration, migration, Russian emigration, literature of the Russian emigration, poetics, textology, Oleg A. Korostelev, Georgii Adamovich, Ivan Bunin, Aleksei Remizov.