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2020 December
International Round Table “Truth and Fiction in Stories about the Past”
Narratives about the past have been the focus of humanitarian discussion for decades: historians ––“realists” and “constructivists”–– debate; philosophers reflect on definitions of historical truth; discoursologists analyze the structure of statements about the past and their role in social communication; literary critics ponder the nature of realism and fictionality; sociologists and political scientists study the social functions of historical narratives; students of cultural studies discuss models of the imaginary past and their transformation in the context of modern life. …
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International Roundtable “Cognitive Genre Studies: Models of Reader Interactions with Text”
Contemporary theory approaches genre less as classification than as an instrument of communication and interpretation. Genres are intersubjective; they emerge in the wake of author-reader interaction and are an inevitable condition of aesthetic communication and understanding. This explains the cognitive sciences’ interest in the category of genre as a mentally embodied representation, or schema, that variously participates in and mediates aesthetic reception. The nature of this schema is simultaneously individual and collective, being based both in the biological and the…
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International Roundtable “Pedagogical Discourses of History and Memory”
Discourses of history and memory are difficult to discriminate and often indistinguishable, despite profound differences in their mechanics and purpose. Both are passed on by systems of education, at all levels from primary school to higher education. While arguments among historians are delimited by the professional scholarly community, narratives of memory are discussed broadly in the media and employed in political practice. The transmission of narratives of collective memory is both necessary and important; it is actively supported by government…
Find out more »2022 February
International round table “Literature and/as Memory”
How does literature “remember”? Are memory and “literariness” related? Where and how do the respective interests of memory studies and of literary studies intersect? How do extra-literary patterns of individual and collective experience imprint and/or manifest themselves in literary texts? How are cultural norms/values reproduced and transformed through the writing and reading of literary texts? How do memory studies respond to literature’s increasing media “adaptability”? Key presenter: Astrid Erll (Professor of English Literature and Culture, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main) Literature as a Medium of Cultural Memory. Discussants: Andrey Logutov (MSU) Narrative Memory vs Lyrical Memory…
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Круглый стол “Молодой Чехов. «Драма на охоте»: Жанровый эксперимент и его продолжения в кино”
МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова Филологический факультет Кафедра общей теории словесности Программа «Литература и кино» приглашают студентов и магистрантов принять участие в круглом столе Молодой Чехов «Драма на охоте» Жанровый эксперимент и его продолжения в кино 27 ноября 2023 заявки принимаются до 10 ноября ? «Драма на охоте» (1884) - проба пера «Антоши Чехонте». В повести легко узнается рука будущего классика, но … литературные достоинства ее совсем не очевидны. Сам Чехов предпочитал об этом опусе ничего не говорить и не включил…
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