Colloquium by Nikolai Bogomolov, Moscow State University: Silver Age as a Subculture
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Speakers): Nikolai Bogomolov, Moscow State University
Nikolai Bogomolov, Moscow State University
'Silver Age as Subculture'
May 22, 2013: 5.15pm
Pigott
Hall (Building 260), Room 216
Omry Ronen’s book
The Fallacy of the Silver Age called the applicability of the term
“Silver Age” into question. Professor
Bogomolov's talk attempts to offer a justification for its
existence. Typically, when scholars discuss the idea of
“subculture,” they have in mind the opposition
of subculture to the “mainstream.” However, it
seems more appropriate to use this idea to discuss the culture of a
certain time as comprised of a multitude of subcultures based on
ethnicity, class, religious faith, cultural tradition, etc. This
talk will discuss the Silver Age as a subculture—a
phenomenon with clear boundaries and its own unique
structure—with the aim of identifying the different
personalities of this subculture and demonstrating the importance
of its various micro-levels.
NIKOLAI BOGOMOLOV, a
specialist in 20th century Russian literature, teaches at Moscow
State University, where he has chaired the Department of Literary
and Art Criticism since 1994. He has received awards and grants
from American Council of Learned Societies, the Soros Foundation,
the Davis Center at Harvard University, and Princeton University,
and has been Visiting Professor at Princeton, University of
California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Tartu and Helsinki
Universities. His research encompasses literary history, the theory
of verse, archival research, early 20th century Russian modernism,
émigré culture, and Soviet and post-Soviet periods of Russian
literature. His publications include monographs on Russian poets
Valery Briusov, Viacheslav Ivanov, Vladislav Khodasevich, and
Mikhail Kuzmin (co-authored with John E. Malmstad). In
collaboration with Michael Wachtel, he has also prepared, prefaced
and annotated an edition of Viacheslav Ivanov's
correspondence with Lydia Zinov'eva-Annibal. An
international festschrift for Professor Bogomolov was published in
2011 by Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie publishing
house.