Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Study of Modern Russian Literature in China: Correction of Mistakes

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017 10 (1)
Authors
Xue, Zhao
Contact information
Xue, Zhao: Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia;
Keywords
reception; Russian studies; literary situation; literary process; history of Russian literature
Abstract

The object of attention in this article is perceptual presupposition, which determines the Chinese Russianists’ reception of modern Russian literature and is explained by the specifics of the history of academic reading in China. Under the influence of the policies, like Correction of Mistakes and Emancipating the Mind, Chinese literary scholars comprehended their experience of reception of Russian literature soberly and objectively. They found it necessary to eliminate the gaps, correct the distortions and rehabilitate the writers. The fact of distorted submissions of Russian literature in the twentieth century and the causes of distortion, that Chinese scientists have been aware of, generate an importance of the full view. This presupposition is shown in two ways. One is an effort to maximum grasp of literary material in order to avoid new lacunas, the other is conscious need for not limited by epistemologically ideological analysis, preferring to study the literary phenomenon as a socially determined formally meaningful unity. Another presupposition of research is systematization of representations in modern Russian literature, which shows the definition in four aspects, first, the key social-cultural and proper literary events that defined the movement of literature, second, literary trends, third, aesthetic directions or trends, fourth, the attempt to combine the topical literary phenomenon, and to single out the leading subjects

Pages
134-146
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/30767

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