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THE PROBLEM OF DEPARTURE/VIOLATION OF NORMS IN CULTURE, LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION (issue no. XLIX/2/2024)
Editors: Alena Kalechyts (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia), Natalia Królikiewicz, Olga Makarowska, Anna Stryjakowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
LITERARY STUDIES
The next issue of the journal “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” is devoted to the violation of norms in Russian language, literature and culture. The questioning of traditions and rules accepted in a given community arouses understandable fear and provokes resistance, but is often an indispensable factor of change and development. The problem of the violation of norms is also a constant object of artistic reflection. Since the dawn of time, the imagination of artists has eagerly turned towards unconventional individuals, those in conflict with their environment and in disagreement with the existing reality. The heroes confronted with a violation of the status-quo, provoked to take a stand and work out appropriate forms of action in the new situation, are equally fascinating. The multi-faceted dialogue with tradition and formal experiments, in turn, determine the vitality of the literary process and the evolution of art, while the changes in social mentality make it possible to go beyond the usual patterns of perception.
We invite you to engage in a scholarly discussion within the broad spectrum of contexts activated by the proposed category. Readings of the classics using new research tools, analyses of recent texts of Russian culture, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches may be a fertile field of study. Potential areas of discussion could include, for example:
- the outsider as a character in Russian literature and art,
- the problem of mental disorders in Russian literature and culture,
- queer themes in Russian literature and art,
- literature and art as a factor of social change,
- the latest Russian literature in relation to the literary tradition …
LINGUISTICS
The theme of the special issue and its current relevance
The words of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay “there is no stillness in language” apply fully to culture and communication. To a certain extent, their dynamics are determined by deviation/violation of norms. Some of these deviations/violations are sporadic, others long-lasting, leading to changes in linguistic, cultural and communicative norms. Despite extensive inquiries, the issue of studying deviations/violations of linguistic, cultural and communicative norms remains not only an open one, but also one of the most topical issues in contemporary linguistics, especially in the light of discussions concerning the variability of the norm and the divergence of specialists' opinions on the necessity of codifying language. This is evidenced by the growing number of scholarly works devoted to the issue.
The special issue of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” will be devoted to various aspects of deviation/violation of norms in language, culture and communication, examined from different perspectives. The main objective of the collection is an in-depth analysis of deviance/violation of linguistic, cultural and communicative norms in texts and discourses of the first half of the 21st century. Great importance is attached to the presentation of a variety of research methods, including experimental methods, approaches (comparative, interdisciplinary), new theories and research strategies (transdisciplinary, hybrid, etc.).
In proposing topics for consideration, the authors are left free to choose their approaches, methods and research material and to interpret the topic.
Potential topics and areas of discussion could include, for example, the following:
- violation of cultural, communicative and linguistic norms in texts/discourses of various types;
- language-game in texts/discourses of various types;
- norm variance in contemporary Russian;
- problems of translation of literary norm variance used as a literary device in literary texts;
- types, causes and specificity of errors in oral and written statements as well as techniques and methods of their prevention and correction in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language.
Deadlines and editorial timetable:
Submission of abstracts: 15.12.2022.
Decision of the editors’ committee regarding abstracts: 28.02.2023.
Submission of complete articles: 30.09.2023.
Results of reviews: 15.12.2023.
Submission of revised articles: 15.03.2024.
Verification of articles in the context of reviewers’ comments; scientific editing, proofreading: 03.16 – 30.06.2024.
Submission of the issue to the Publisher: 07.2024.
Languages of submissions: English, Russian and Polish.
Abstracts (1000-1500 characters, in the language of the article) should be sent by email to the scientific editors of the volume by 15.12.2022:
natasza@amu.edu.pl – dr Natalia Królikiewicz (Literary Studies)
akalechyts@ukf.sk – dr Alena Kalechyts (Linguistics)
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“Eastern European Urban Narratives of Conflict” (issue no. XLIX/1/2024)
Editors: Seth Graham (University College London), Rachel Morley (University College London), Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)
1) Scope of the special issue and the relevance of the subject:
The 2022 edition of ‘Millennium Docs Against Gravity’, Poland’s largest documentary film festival, featured a Susan Sontag retrospective that included her work Waiting for Godot…in Sarajevo, made in the Bosnian capital during the siege and codirected with Nicole Stéphane. The film, which is often described as Sontag’s lasting gift to Sarajevans and which gave them hope and the possibility of responding to suppressed emotions, today inevitably brings to mind places such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, whose suffering inhabitants and ruined architecture have made us doubt the existence of a civilized world. Focusing attention on the mission of art and the role of the artist as an engaged witness of reality, this special issue of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” will concentrate on urban experiences of all kinds of conflicts: military, political, interpersonal, ethnic, religious, environmental, etc. We would like to pinpoint the role of Eastern European cities as sites of power and powerlessness, as spaces where pain is/was inflicted, contemplated, embodied, expressed or (re)negotiated, and as intersections of different cultures and traditions (e.g. Catholicism and Orthodoxy). We would also welcome proposals rooted in gender studies, queer studies, post-colonial studies, disability studies, performative studies and animal studies, that may offer perspectives on the city space as a battlefield for one’s dignity, rights and identity. We expect that authors might refer to Sontag’s belief in the artist’s social and ethical duty to explore the link between the aesthetic and the political as well as the relationship between the mind and the body in urban environments.
Treating Russian and Soviet literature, cinema and language as a point of departure for discussion, we anticipate that the special issue will address, among others, the following questions:
- What is the language of conflict as expressed in visual images, metaphors and verbal communication? Are there recurrent formulas and images in Eastern European cultures? Are they linked specifically to one culture or are they multicultural?
- How does urban space endorse or prevent conflicts and/or wars?
- How/why do specific cities become the primary sites of conflict?
- How are future urban conflicts imagined, predicted and narrated?
- How do Eastern European cities engage in negotiating conflicts related to sexual identity? What is the role of liminal and transit spaces in this domain? Does urban architecture blur or define sexual conflicts?
Both theoretical works and discussions of artistic representations are welcome. We are particularly interested in proposals that seek connections between various disciplines, such as literary studies, film studies, linguistics, urban studies, memory studies, anthropology, and urban psychology, to name just a few.
2) Possible topics and areas of discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:- conflicts of marginalized nationalities and ethnicities
- places that are ignored, neglected, degraded or destroyed as a result of (military) conflicts
- literary and cinematic first and second cities
- monster cities – city monsters
- navigating the psycho-fantastical geography of urban conflict
- urban memory spaces
- human vs. non-human in cities
- bodies in pain
- travel writing in the context of social, political and military conflicts
- common challenges of survival in the city
- city diaries, cinematic cities
- sounds & silence in the city under siege
- urban nature-culture
- crime fiction, speculative fiction, nuclear narratives, utopias/dystopias
- healing spaces in the urban context
- city diasporas, biopolitics, surveillance
- environmental justice, ecofiction & ecocatastrophes
- Holocaust, genocide, urban ghettos
- urbicide, the killing of cities, urban destruction, death in the city
- representations of trauma, grief, loss, mourning, works on witnessing conflicts
- urban narratives as metaphors of fear & apocalypse
- Eastern European war testimonies
- fragmented cities – fragmented nations
- decaying empires
- working women in the city, social and political control, violence and discrimination
- liminality of the city, borderlands, peripheral spheres, intersections in the context of city architecture
- childhood conflicts in the city
- cities of revolution
3) Deadlines and editorial timetable:Publication of the CfP online (in English, Russian and Polish): 15.07.2022
Submission of abstracts: 15.11.2022
Decision of the editors’ committee regarding abstracts: 15.12.2022
Submission of complete articles: 15.05.2023
Results of reviews: 30.06.2023
Submission of revised articles: 15.09.2023
Publication of the issue: 30.06.2024
Languages of submissions: English, Russian and Polish;
Abstracts (1000-1500 characters, in the language of the article) should be sent by email to the editors of the volume by November 15, 2022: Dr Seth Graham (s.graham@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Rachel Morley (rachel.morley@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (beata.waligorska@amu.edu.pl).
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1) Scope of the special issue and the relevance of the subject:
The term ‘humour’ tends to be used in many different ways. Sometimes its meaning is treated very broadly and is identified with the comic, although many forms of humour are more easily associated with seriousness, melancholy or even sadness. Representations of this phenomenon are known from the works of Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Zoschenko, Abram Terts, Grigori Gorin or Fazil Iskander. Humour can be also found in many forms of cultural expression, such as satire, film comedies, anekdoty, internet memes, etc. In the Russian context it often brings to mind well-grounded theoretical approaches (e.g. Mikhail Bakhtin, Vladimir Propp), popular authors (Igor Guberman, Mikhail Zhvanetsky), certain themes (politics, human vices, stereotypes), genres or stylistic devices (estradnyj yumor, evreyskiy yumor, menippea, sarcasm, cynicism, obscenity, hyperbole).
This special issue of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” (2022, vol. XLVII/ 1) wants to uncover new perspectives on the research of humour and satire from the Perestroika all the way to Putin and the corona virus pandemic. In these trying times it seems important to recall that both forms have had a long history in the development of Slavonic literatures, languages and cultures. They have always been and remained one of the important carriers of the reflection on the most essential questions concerning human existence. We would like to continue the discussion on the complexity of the topic in all its variations, inviting multiple perspectives in its study, including new theoretical considerations, experimental methodologies, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. It is clearly not a saturated subject of study or a case, which is in any way “closed”. In this special issue, we plan to focus on humour and satire in the late Soviet era and in the subsequent decades, as these are periods that are less widely studied, but their analysis can offer a new understanding of the past and the present. This is evident, for instance, in the popularity of Soviet tropes in internet memes or in unique genre forms coexisting with, controlling or competing with conventions in postmodern and contemporary fiction. One of such phenomena is gossmekh, humour appropriated by the state that presumably appeals to the taste of the masses [i], which can be seen as the counterpart of Soviet dissident humour. Whereas some may dismiss this type of humour as “unfunny” or lacking social criticism, the immense popularity of Soviet film in the 21st century, for example, calls for a closer look at the relevance of humour beyond dissident works. Other issues yet to be explored are, for example, how far the division between gossmekh and dissident humour helps us understand humour (or not) and also if, in today’s Russia, humorous cultural expressions targeted at the masses can be considered gossmekh or another term needs to be worked out.
Recent studies on the topic show both the relevance of the subject and its popularity. The publication, in Russia and abroad, of countless collections of Soviet jokes has resulted in the popularisation of some myths, such as the notion that Soviet humour and satire somehow played a part in the demise of the Soviet Union or even gave citizens a form of political power[ii]. Research in the afterlife of Stalin jokes, in turn, shows how the same jokes were “recycled” all the way to the Putin era, with the subject of the joke being randomly interchanged to even include dissident figures, providing parody and social relief in difficult times. “The transformation shows how dangerous it is to use jokes as a source of information either about reality or about people’s attitudes to this reality”[iii].
2) Possible topics and areas of discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New theoretical considerations touching upon today’s understanding of satire, hybridization of generic conventions, fundamental models and concepts of the comic and humour in Russian culture;
- The 21st century reception of Soviet humour, such as that of Faina Ranevskaya’s aphorisms in the internet, or the reception of Soviet heritage on YouTube and other online platforms;
- New perspectives on social humour: gender, class and ethnic relations, taboos, anekdoty about New Russians, “corona” jokes;
- Political and historical verse of the 1980ies, 1990ies, 2000 – ad-hominem-satire (satires on Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Chernomyrdin, Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky, but also Clinton, Kohl etc.);
- Genres, styles and media: gariki, gubariki, dvushki, aphorisms, short stories, fables, kukly;
- Humour in Russian comedies as the adaptation of the tradition, e.g. Gogol’s caricatures and absurd or the visual manner of Charlie Chaplin etc. (Muratova, Surikova, Bortko, Todorovsky, Rogozhkin);
- Intertextuality as the development of subplots, motifs and literary tradition in contemporary texts of culture (Korolev, Pelevin, Sorokin, Krusanov, Aksenov etc.);
3) Deadlines and organization of editorial process:
Submission of abstracts: 28.02.2021
Decision of the editors’ committee: 15.03.2021
Submission of complete articles: 31.08.2021
Results of reviews: 30.10.2021
Submission of revised articles: 02.01.2022
Publication of the issue: 30.06.2022
Languages of submissions: Russian, German, English and Polish;
Abstracts (1000-1500 characters, in the language of the article) should be sent by email to the editors of the volume: Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr Michael Düring (dueringm@slav.uni-kiel.de), Dr Elisa Kriza (elisa.kriza@uni-bamberg.de), Prof. UAM dr hab. Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (beata.waligorska@amu.edu.pl) by February 28, 2021;
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[i] Dobrenko, Yevgeniy A. (Sostavitelʹ bloka) “Gossmekh”, NLO, 3 (121), 2013.
[ii] Kristof, Nicholas. “To Beat Trump, Mock Him”. The New York Times. 26 September 2020; Aron, Leon. “Russian Jokes Tell the Brutal Truth”. The Atlantic. 29 November 2019.
[iii] Kozintsev, Alexander. “Stalin Jokes and Humor Theory”. Russian Journal of Communication, 2:3-4, 2009:199-214 (204).
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