title: On the role of Lermontov in Russian culture. Some preliminary remarks
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metadata.value: Markovich, Vladimir M.
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T14:36:16Z
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T14:36:16Z
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metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.value: Markovich V. M. [On the role of Lermontov in Russian culture. Some preliminary remarks]. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2018, 15 (4): 527–534.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2018.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15337
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metadata.value: The following text is a presentation that was held by V. Markovich at the international conference
  “The 200th Anniversary of the Birth of M. Lermontov” on October 9th, 2014, at the
  Institute of Russian Literature (Russian Academy of Sciences). Comparing the first elegy of the
  19th century, “The Country Churchyard” by Zhukovsky, and Lermontov’s poem “I go out on
  the road alone …”, V. Markovich argues that the latter is the first poem in Russian culture to lay
  down the law of hesitation between two polarities — unbearability and impossibility. Impossibility
  is the only possible response to unbearability in the world of text. That is how Russian
  cultural dynamics can be described: fluctuation between two historical stages of cultural evolution
  finds itself again and again as the main form of mental stability in Russia, the stability of
  reappearing conflicts becoming a form of their insolubility. One of the anomalies of Russian
  culture starts to show and it can be studied against the background of universal polarities. As
  such background we can use the pattern of Mircea Eliade which is based on the antinomy of
  two types of worldview and existence, regularly appearing in world history; but this time the
  types are synchronous rather than alternating. The first one is “historically oriented”, ”western”
  and “modern”, relying on the concept of history progressively moving towards a certain
  goal, whereas the second one is “archaic”, “traditional” and “oriental”, determined by the laws
  of repeating patterns. Nations are divided into “historic” and “ahistoric”. The former understands
  its own existence as history and build history, whereas the latter sees development as a
  painful process and tries to escape from its horror and oppression, “constantly returning” to
  the original archaic ways. It is impossible to change the type of existence. Therefore, Russian
  culture combines two incompatible types, without any prospect of their future synthesis. This
  tragic anomaly is ineradicable, and the only possible solution is alternating between its two manifestations: a catastrophic and unbearable one and an under-active and entropic one. The
  anomaly of cultural development makes it unpredictable and opens inexhaustible possibilities.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 15; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lermontov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Zhukovsky
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On the role of Lermontov in Russian culture. Some preliminary remarks
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metadata.value: Article
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