title: The transitional era in literature and the term realism (1840–1850s)
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metadata.value: Stepanov, Andrei D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T19:18:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T19:18:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Stepanov A. D. The transitional era in literature and the term realism (1840–1850s). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (3): 497–514. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.306 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39054
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article describes main milestones of the emergence and approval of the literary term
  realism. The term was filled with new content in French literature and criticism in the 1840s,
  and in 1849 first appeared in Russia in the article by Pavel Annenkov. The appearance of the
  term contributed to the transfer to Russian soil of the entire associative halo of the Realistic
  school, as it was understood in France at that time. The study of lagging autoreflection allows
  one to put forward the thesis about the atheoretical nature of realism. The means of realistic
  self-knowledge were not treatises, but critical articles on modern literature, where the concept
  of realism served as a means of journalistic polemics. The writers ranked among the great realists
  today did not classify themselves as such. Realists were considered anti-romantic-minded
  authors of low origin (raznochintsy), depicting familiar details of low reality. Subsequently,
  the fundamental thesis of the social determination of characters and artistic typification as a
  sign of realistic art, which was subsequently consolidated, remained peripheral to the autoreflection
  of realism at the first stage of its development. All this determines the complexity
  of the conceptualization of this literary trend. In Russia the situation is more complicated
  because of the still-persisting influence of Soviet literary criticism, which sought to extend the
  unhistorically understood realism to the entire history of literature and turn it into a telos of
  literary development. Overcoming this approach and returning to the historical comprehension
  of realism is one of the urgent tasks of the history of literature.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 21-18-00527 in the Institute of
  Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, https://rscf.ru/project/21-18-00527/.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: realism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of world literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of Russian literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the middle of the 19th century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: autoreflection
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The transitional era in literature and the term realism (1840–1850s)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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