TY - GEN

T1 - Russian Literature Around the October Revolution

T2 - Internet and Modern Society

AU - Скребцова, Татьяна Георгиевна

AU - Шерстинова, Татьяна Юрьевна

N1 - Conference code: 23

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - The paper reveals the thematic content and plot structure of the Russian short stories written in the 20th century’s first three decades. It presents part of the ongoing project aimed at a comprehensive study of the Russian short stories of this period, encompassing their thematic, structural and linguistic features. This particular period is targeted because it was marked by a series of dramatic historical events (Russo-Japanese war, World War I, February and October revolutions, the Civil War, formation of the Soviet Union) that could not but affect Russian literature and language style. Within the project, a corresponding text corpus has been created, currently containing several thousands stories and thus allowing for a wide coverage of texts and their computer processing. On its basis, a random sample has been selected, serving as a testbed to probe preliminary observations and hypotheses. It is used in the paper to identify prevailing themes, both major and minor, manifest and latent, as well as characteristic narrative structures and to trace the way they kept changing over the three decades. This helps to pinpoint certain features and tendencies which may be of interest to literary theorists and other scholars.

AB - The paper reveals the thematic content and plot structure of the Russian short stories written in the 20th century’s first three decades. It presents part of the ongoing project aimed at a comprehensive study of the Russian short stories of this period, encompassing their thematic, structural and linguistic features. This particular period is targeted because it was marked by a series of dramatic historical events (Russo-Japanese war, World War I, February and October revolutions, the Civil War, formation of the Soviet Union) that could not but affect Russian literature and language style. Within the project, a corresponding text corpus has been created, currently containing several thousands stories and thus allowing for a wide coverage of texts and their computer processing. On its basis, a random sample has been selected, serving as a testbed to probe preliminary observations and hypotheses. It is used in the paper to identify prevailing themes, both major and minor, manifest and latent, as well as characteristic narrative structures and to trace the way they kept changing over the three decades. This helps to pinpoint certain features and tendencies which may be of interest to literary theorists and other scholars.

KW - Digital humanities

KW - Literary corpus

KW - Literary history

KW - Literary themes

KW - Narrative structure

KW - Revolution

KW - Russian literature

KW - Russian short stories

KW - Social changes

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101635668&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference contribution

T3 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

SP - 117

EP - 128

BT - International Conference "Internet and Modern Society" (IMS-2020)

Y2 - 17 June 2020 through 20 June 2020

ER -