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Publicistická a literárněkritická činnost V. P. Botkina v kontextu ruského liberálního myšlení poloviny 19. století
| Title in English | Publicist and literary-critical activities V. P. Botkin in the context of Russian liberal thought of the mid-19th century |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Dialog kultur IX. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní konference Hradec Králové 17.-18. ledna 2017 |
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| Keywords | Russian literature; 19th Centrury; liberalism; literary criticism; political thought; V. P. Botkin; P. V. Annenkov; A. V. Druzhinin |
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| Description | This contribution focuses on the work of Vasily P. Botkin (1811–1869), Russian journalist and literary critic, who belonged, together with P. V. Annenkov and A. V. Druzhinin, to the representatives of the so-called aesthetic literary criticism. In the 1840s-1850s, the aforementioned critics were one of the leading opponents of Russian radical thinking and belonged to well-known figures of Russian liberal thinking. The contribution shows the influence of European liberalism on two Botkin’s works. First of them is Letters on Spain and the other is an essay of literary criticism concerning the poetry of A. A. Fet. In the essay, Botkin advocates the notion of freedom of the individual, specifically absolute artistic freedom that mustn’t be restricted by any societal needs. Furthermore, Botkin advocates the significance of poetry in an age of prose when economic, scientific and technical issues turned the attention of the society towards seemingly more practical matters. |