Urban Dreams, Literary Realities: Central and Southeastern Europe in the Labyrinth of the Written Word

Топос города в синхронии и диахронии: литературная парадигма Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европы / коллективная монография, отв. ред. Н. Н. Старикова. – М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2023. – 550 с.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2024.3-4.28

Keywords:

Urban text, geopoetics, topos of the city, architext, heterotopia, the mythologeme of the city

Abstract

The review presents a collective monograph entitled “Topos of the City in Synchrony and Diachrony: Literary Paradigm of Central and South-Eastern Europe”. The monograph is devoted to the functioning of the topos of the city and urban space in literary texts using examples of selected works of the 20th and 21st centuries that thematize the space of cities-“generators of culture” (Yu. Lotman): Moscow, Minsk, Kharkiv, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Sarajevo, Sofia, Budapest, Bucharest, Paris, New Orleans, New York. The work significantly expands the understanding of urban issues and the features of the poetics of space in the literatures of Central and South-Eastern Europe, introduces new conceptually systematized literary material into scientific circulation. The monograph is distinguished by an interdisciplinary approach and the use of a relevant theoretical and conceptual apparatus, which places the topic of urban space in a modern scientific context and illuminates it from a variety of viewpoints.

Received: 02.09.2024.

Citation
Ibrišimović-Šabić A. Urban Dreams, Literary Realities: Central and Southeastern Europe in the Labyrinth of the Written Word // Slavic Almanac. 2024. No 3–4. P. 515–534 (in Russian). DOI: 10.31168/2073-5731.2024.3-4.28

Author Biography

  • Adijata Ibrišimović-Šabić, University of Sarajevo

    Doctor of Literary and Historical Sciences, professor
    University of Sarajevo
    71000, Franje Račkog 1, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    E-mail: adijata.ibrisimovic-sabic@ff.unsa.ba

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2024-12-27

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