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STAR SHIPS VERSUS PEDESTRIANS: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY IN LATVIAN LITERATURE UNDER THE SOVIET REGIME

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Simsone B.
Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia
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2007
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issue 4(53)
57-66
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The present paper is devoted to tracking the ambivalent attitude of Soviet literary critics towards the science fiction and fantasy literature published in one of the republics of the USSR, namely, Latvia. The paper discusses the forewords and epilogues of the science fiction and fantasy books published in Latvian as manifestos of Soviet ideology as far as imagination was concerned and points out the differing attitudes toward both genres. Science fiction was turned into a tool for promoting dialectical materialism and Soviet ideals, whereas fantasy was deliberately silenced as a genre since these principles could not be applied to it. The paper concludes that this fifty-year-long discrimination has left its mark on the present-day situation of Latvian culture and literature.
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HIEROPHANIES OF THE TIME IN THE SOVIET CHRONOTOP (Ierofanii chasu v radyanskomy chronotopi)

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Stoliar M.
Філософська Думка
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2009
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issue 3
127-139
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Being based upon the principles of N. Berdiaev's, S. Bulgakov's and others' philosophical criticism of Marxism, the authoress attempts to reveal religious features of the Soviet ideology. The concept of hierophany serves as the starting point of the research of the time component of the Soviet chronotop. The phenomenon of hierophany is considered in two aspects. Firstly, according to M. Eliade's conclusions, it is analyzed as the eruption of the sacred, religious things in the profane ones. Secondly, this phenomenon is researched in the hesychasm context as the display of the certain energy. The authoress stresses that it is precisely this energy that makes possible the existence of different cultural artifacts, including ideological ones. The main matter of omission within the Soviet culture is shown as the sphere of borrowing and distorting of Christian senses and exploiting their energy in a parasitical way. This thesis is developed by means of referring to different characteristic terms of the reviewed period, such as 'history / prehistory', 'new era', as well as by description of such manifestations as the cult of 'the bright future', de-sacralized holidays, the Soviet variant of chiliasm, etc. Besides, the authoress speaks of the chronotop evolution under the influence of cultural artifacts alternative to the ideology.
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