Кемеровская школа теоретической поэтики
Kemerovo School of Theoretical Poetics

Summary/Abstract: The Kemerovo School of Theoretical Poetics was founded in the 1970s. It was in the WestSiberian mining town of Kemerovo, more than three and a half thousand kilometres fromMoscow, that the traditions of theoretical and historical poetics were revived, which had beenpractically banned in the Soviet Union since the 1930s. The first attempts to revive poeticswere undertaken in the 1960s in the works of Yuri Lotman and Mikhail Bakhtin, but in thenext decade Kemerovo University became the centre of the development of poetics. The headof the school was Natan Tamarchenko, who at that time headed the department of theoryand foreign literature, around which a team of researchers gathered, including some famousliterary scholars, such as Valery Tyupa, Sergey Lavlinsky, Mikhail Darwin, and others. In the1990s, with the relocation of Tamarchenko, Tyupа and Lavlinsky to Moscow, the centre ofthe school was the Russian State University for the Humanities, which is still the case. Theideas of these researchers are developed by their students and scientists from other researchfacilities in Russia and other countries. The article presents certain concepts developed bythe representatives of the Kemerovo school of theoretical poetics, which have been ‘filtered’by M. Bakhtin’s thought. Attention is paid to the most important achievements in the field ofaesthetic analysis of a literary work, understood as an artistic whole. The fact that such anelementary concept as the analysis of a literary work is problematic may be surprising, but thatwas exactly the case in Soviet literary criticism. It is enough to mention that in the curricula ofuniversities there were no such subjects as “Analysis of the artistic text”, and they first appearedin provincial universities: in Izhevsk (Udmurtia), in Tver, in Donetsk and in Kemerovo.

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