On the Reception of German Expressionism in the USSR: Unpublished Article by P. Kogan about Johannes Becher
The article examines early Soviet criticism of Johannes R. Becher’s works in the context of Soviet reception of German Expressionism in the 1920s. A.V. Lunacharsky and P.S. Kogan were mainly positive in their assessments of this literary movement of the 1910s, emphasizing its revolutionary intention...
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2023-09-01
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| description | The article examines early Soviet criticism of Johannes R. Becher’s works in the context of Soviet reception of German Expressionism in the 1920s. A.V. Lunacharsky and P.S. Kogan were mainly positive in their assessments of this literary movement of the 1910s, emphasizing its revolutionary intentions, typical for Expressionists’ works and social position (anti-bourgeois activism, closeness to the working class and the Communist Party). On the contrary, critics that stuck to the program of the magazine “Na literaturnom postu” and associated with the Communist Academy tended to reject Expressionism as a decadent phenomenon of bourgeois culture. They decisively separated Becher from this literary movement. The article also dwells on the Expressionist studies conducted by the research team of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN); in 1926 its president P. Kogan presented his research paper “Johannes Becher. (A page from the history of German Expressionism)” which is published for the first time in the addendum. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c31e5a72582a41db81e7b787d6c58ba72023-09-27T15:08:30ZengRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureЛитературный факт2541-82972542-24212023-09-013 (29)32335210.22455/2541-8297-2023-29-323-352On the Reception of German Expressionism in the USSR: Unpublished Article by P. Kogan about Johannes BecherSergei I. Panov0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-7219A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of SciencesThe article examines early Soviet criticism of Johannes R. Becher’s works in the context of Soviet reception of German Expressionism in the 1920s. A.V. Lunacharsky and P.S. Kogan were mainly positive in their assessments of this literary movement of the 1910s, emphasizing its revolutionary intentions, typical for Expressionists’ works and social position (anti-bourgeois activism, closeness to the working class and the Communist Party). On the contrary, critics that stuck to the program of the magazine “Na literaturnom postu” and associated with the Communist Academy tended to reject Expressionism as a decadent phenomenon of bourgeois culture. They decisively separated Becher from this literary movement. The article also dwells on the Expressionist studies conducted by the research team of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences (GAKhN); in 1926 its president P. Kogan presented his research paper “Johannes Becher. (A page from the history of German Expressionism)” which is published for the first time in the addendum.http://litfact.ru/images/2023-29/13-Panov_323-352.pdfexpressionismgerman poetrysoviet literary criticismsoviet reception of european literaturestate academy of artistic sciences (gakhn)j.r. becherp.s. kogana.v. lunachharsky |
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| title | On the Reception of German Expressionism in the USSR: Unpublished Article by P. Kogan about Johannes Becher |
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| title_short | On the Reception of German Expressionism in the USSR: Unpublished Article by P. Kogan about Johannes Becher |
| title_sort | on the reception of german expressionism in the ussr unpublished article by p kogan about johannes becher |
| topic | expressionism german poetry soviet literary criticism soviet reception of european literature state academy of artistic sciences (gakhn) j.r. becher p.s. kogan a.v. lunachharsky |
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