Economy of Narration and Identity Crisis: Russian Ethnographic Novel 1860-1890

本文拟对俄罗斯民族志小说进行系统的文献学研究，试图将其作为一种独立的、在文学上有影响的文学体裁，在其鼎盛时期（1860-1890年）对俄罗斯民族志小说进行索引。计划研究的主要目标是一个跨学科的俄罗斯民族志小说，揭示和强调文化研究的角度链接诗意的概念。对文学体裁的定义和描述的第一个关键步骤将是它在文学史上的位置，此外，它的出现和发展的话语语境化。在这一部分中，民族志小说与19世纪俄国民粹主义运动之间的生产性干涉以及民粹主义运动的各种倾向，如斯拉夫派、民粹主义者和无政府主义者，应该得到评价。本文主要对这类小说的主题、题材和独特的叙事技巧及其功能进行了详细的分析。在这方面，重要的历史认识论的发现将集中在体裁的代表性作品纳入民族志和民俗学的诗歌认识论技术。通过对这一基本联系的揭示，可以看出小说对俄罗斯民族志学派形成的反馈作用。对这一深远关联的研究成果，应当在认识史和人类学叙事学的进路中，整理成一套假设。此外，建议的项目旨在阐述社会文化地位和社会参与类型的影响，因此涉及对作者的重要知识和意识形态影响，以及俄罗斯民族志小说的发行和接受。语境分析表明，农民问题的政治经济讨论，以及少数民族的文化融合，都是小说体裁的反映，同时也受到小说体裁的启发。

The herein proposed research project endeavours the task of indexing the Russian ethnographic novel in its prime (1860-1890) as an independent, literarily influential genre, as yet, a systematic philological processing is still amiss. The main objective of the planned study is the conception of a transdisciplinary linked poetic of the Russian ethnographic novel that unveils and stresses perspectives of cultural studies. A first crucial step in the definition and description of the genre will be its location in literary history and, moreover, the discursive contextualisation of its emergence and development. In this part, the productive interference between the ethnographic novel and the Russian populist movement of the 19th century and its diverse tendencies, like the Slavophiles, the Narodniks and the Anarchists, should be evaluated. The proposed research mainly demands a detailed analysis of the topics, subjects and distinctive narrative techniques of this specific type of novel and their functions. In this regard, the significant historical-epistemological finding will be focused that the representative works of the genre incorporate the poetic-epistemological techniques of ethnography and folkloristics. By unfolding this fundamental tie the study will show the feedback effects of the novels on the formation of the Russian ethnographic school itself. The research results of the investigation of this far-reaching correlation should be compiled into a set of assumptions within the approach of epistemological history and anthropological narratology. Furthermore the suggested project aims at the exposition of the sociocultural positions and effects of the socially engaged genre and therefore deals with the crucial intellectual and ideological influences on the authors, as well as with the distribution and reception of the Russian ethnographic novel. The contextual analyses shall demonstrate that the political-economic discussions of the peasant question, just as the cultural integration of ethnic minorities are consequently reflected and at the same time inspired by the discussed novel genre.