THE MODES OF TRADITIONALISM IN THE SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY OF CRITICISM OF THE RUSSIAN DIASPORA IN THE 1920s AND 1940s
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https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2025-4-129-136
Abstract. The article examines the paradoxes and curiosities of the poetics of traditionalism in the theoretical and methodological views of critics of the Russian diaspora. Their interest in distant historical and literary parallels was reflected not only in the problems, but also influenced the reverse principles of the scientific thinking: the anachronistic method of reverse experiment (P. M. Bicilli), recursive reading from the top of a masterpiece to the origins of creativity (A. Boehm), palindromic reading of texts - “backwards”, “from the other end” (V. Nabokov). Discursive ambivalence is a consequence of the rejection of a single-vector app roach: interpretations of modernism as a form of conservatism, Romanticism as a metahistorical category (D. Svyatopolk-Mirsky, V. Nabokov), the revival of allegory and the interference of elements of the Middle Ages in modern art (P. M. Bicilli). Intertextual analysis (mechanisms of “parallels”, “literary recollections”) serves as a formal confirmation of the thesis that in the historical perspective, the relationship of cultures is dialogical, reversible, and determines the modes of critical reflection of writers abroad.
Key words: traditionalism, metalanguage, discursive ambivalence, artistic thinking, P. Bicilli,
A. Boehm, V. Nabokov
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