Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature

Published since 1989.

Author of the project idea ― Anatoly S. Demin, DSc in Philology, Professor, Chief Researcher, IWL RAS (until February 01, 2017 ― Head of the Department of Old Slavic Literatures, IWL RAS).

Aims and Scope

The Serial Scientific Edition Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature (HORL) is a collection of monographs and articles devoted to the Russian literature of the 11^th – 17^th centuries. The Serial Scientific Edition is based on the research of representatives of the Moscow school of hermeneutics, which is actively developing in science today, which sets itself the task of interpreting and comprehending Old Russian and Old Slavonic texts, developing a methodology of scientific evidence, a syncretic study of the history of literary and artistic works of small and large medieval literary forms. The research methodology, presented in the Serial Scientific Edition Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature, is based primarily on the explanation of phenomena, their connection with social thought, the psychology of literary creativity, history, and in this sense, the Serial Scientific Edition continues the scientific traditions of studying Old Russian literature laid by N.K. Gudziy, V.D. Kuzmina. At the same time, unlike the above-mentioned school, textology is the starting point of hermeneutical research in the field of medieval Russian literature. A large corpus of works in Serial Scientific Edition is devoted to the problems of poetics, style, aesthetics of Old Russian literature. Continuing and developing the scientific directions of studying old Russian texts of the 11^th – 17^th centuries, the sources of which are the works of  F.I. Buslaev, A.S. Orlov, D.S. Likhachev, the Moscow school of hermeneutics nevertheless represents an original direction in the study of medieval texts, since the triad is based on the research presented in the Serial Scientific Edition: textology – poetics – hermeneutics (i.e. interpretation and explanation based on a multitude of facts). Such an integrated approach, supported by a comparative analysis involving the comparison of old Russian texts with medieval Slavic and Western European texts, allows hermeneutics to detect such phenomena that are not revealed with other research methods. Due to this scientific approach to the study of the medieval texts and monographs, the articles presented in Serial Scientific Edition Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature open up new dimensions in understanding of old Russian texts of the 11^th – 17^th centuries, both well-known and newly introduced into scientific circulation.

The publication is addressed primarily to prepared readers ― medieval scholars, university teachers, graduate students and philology students, historians, art historians.

Website: http://old-rus-imli.ru/index.php/en/

Литературное наследство / Literary Heritage

The serial scientific edition Literary Heritage exists since 1931. Within this serial edition the unknown archives of Russian poets and writers such as Pushkin, Lermontov, Gertsen, Ogarev, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tiutchev, Fet, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Leskov, Chekhov, Bunin, Block, Briusov, Gorky, Leonid Andreev and their contemporaries  were firstly published with scientific comments.

Literary Heritage is a peer-reviewed edition.

Website: https://litnasledstvo.imli.ru/ (in Russian only) 

Codex Manuscriptus

Established in 2019

Founder and publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Serial scientific edition "Codex manuscriptus" (CM) is a collection of archival publications, research articles and monographs on the history of literature. Its main objective is to introduce hitherto unknown sources on the history of literature from the archives of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other archives into scientific circulation. Archival publications, as well as research articles and monographs that are innovative in terms of the primary sources used, are equipped with a textual introduction and academic commentary, and cover the content of little-known personal or public collections, the composition of which comments on significant events and facts of the historical and literary process, restores the biographies of its participants from correspondence, diaries, notebooks, transcripts of speeches, and so on. The study and updating of documents on the history of literature serves to create an appropriate source study and research platform, the interest in which among scholars is growing and the absence of which sometimes leads to conceptual distortions. The methodology of research and publications presented in the "Codex manuscriptus" is based on the traditions of academic edition, textual criticism and source study, founded by D.S. Likhachev, N.N. Skatov, L.D. Gromova-Opulskoy, N.V. Kornienko, A.V. Lavrov, T.M. Nikolaeva, A.L. Grishunin, and also scientific school of publication of primary sources, formed in the edition of the academic series "Literary Heritage." Main approaches of the research are cultural-historical, comparative-historical, socio-cultural, biographical, archival, bibliographic methods. Such an integrated approach makes it possible to identify a wide range of literary and non-literary factors that determined the literary process, which is inaccessible without referring to archival primary sources. Thus this scientific approach to the study of Russian and world literature, publications, research articles, monographs presented in the serial scientific edition "Codex manuscriptus" open up new facets in understanding literary monuments, both well-known and newly introduced into scientific circulation. The publication is addressed primarily to prepared readers –professors, graduate students and students of philology, historians, and art historians.

The author of the project is Daria S. Moskovskaya, DSc in Philology, Director of research at IWL RAS (since 2010, Head of the Department of Manuscripts at IWL RAS)

Website: https://codex-manuscriptus.ru/