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email: a.schonle@qmul.ac.uk

Areas of specialisation

Russian and comparative literature 1790-1890, literary and cultural theory.

Current Research Projects

Ruins of Modernity (together with Julia Hell)

This edited volume grows out of a conference held at the University of Michigan in March 2005. It aims to investigate modernity’s investment in ruins from a broad interdisciplinary perspective and in a global context, exploring a range of responses to the untold affinity between the project of modernization and the production and preservation of ruins.

Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia (working title)

This monograph proposes to analyze the role played by the trope of ruin and the response to actual ruins in Russia’s thinking about its discontinuous history and fractured identity. Case studies include: ruins and Enlightenment in Karamzin’s early writings; aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins; Tolstoy’s response to the 1812 Moscow fire in War and Peace; ruins in the modern city between erasure and nurture; the representation of urban decay in Petrograd; the ruins of the blockade of Leningrad; ruins as transition to timelessness in the poetry of Joseph Brodsky; paper architects and the vitality of decay.

 

Book Publications

• The Ruler in the Garden: Politics and Landscape Design in Imperial Russia. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007).
• Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions, ed. by Andreas Schonle (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006).
• Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000). Revised Russian translation: Podlinnost’ i vymysel v avtorskom samosoznanii russkoi literatury puteshestvii, 1790-1840 (St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 2004).

 

Select Articles

• "Apologiia ruiny v filosofii istorii: providentsializm i ego raspad," Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie . Vol. 95 (2009). 24-38.
• "The Russian translation of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne : I.F. Bogdanovich and the incipient cult of sensibility." Revue Voltaire. No. 9 (2009). 221-238.
• " Fragment 'Vezuvii zev otkryl' i pushkinskii podtekst gorodskikh katastrof ." I vremia i mesto: Istoriko-filologicheskii sbornik k shestidesiatiletiiu Aleksandra L'vovicha Ospovata   [Festschrift in honour of A.L. Ospovat]. Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2008. 187-198.
• “Parcs et jardins russes,” Sites de la mémoire russe, ed. by Georges Nivat and Alexandre Arkhanguelski (Paris: Editions Fayard, 2007). 403-415.
• “Neskoutchnyi sad,” Sites de la mémoire russe, ed. by Georges Nivat and Alexandre Arkhanguelski (Paris: Editions Fayard, 2007). 416-423.
• “Ruins and History: Observations on Russian Approaches to Destruction and Decay,” Slavic Review. Vol. 65.4 (2006). 649-669.
• "Introduction," (with Jeremy Shine), in Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions (Madison: The University of Wisconsin UP, 2006). 3-35.
• The Self, its Bubbles, and Illusions: Cultivating Autonomy in Greenblatt and Lotman,” in Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions (Madison: The University of Wisconsin UP, 2006). 183-207.
• “Sovremennost’ v vospriiatii prirody: kategoriia zhivopisnogo i otkaz ot metanarrativov,” Etkindovskie chteniia, vol. 2-3 (2006). 5-20.
• “Prostranstvo melankholii u Zhukovskogo,” Etkindovskie chteniia, vol. 1 (2003), 173-185.
• "A. T. Bolotov's Horticultural Theodicy: The Aesthetics of 'Disinterested' Wonder," Russian Studies in Literature, ed. by Rachel May, vol. 39.2 (2003), 24-50.
• "Mezdhu 'drevnei' i 'novoi' Rossiei: ruiny u rannego Karamzina kak mesto 'modernity'," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, vol. 59.1 (2003), 125-141.
• “Lotman and Cultural Studies: The Case for Cross-fertilization,” Sign System Studies, vol. 30.2 (2003), 429-440.
• "A.B. Kurakin and the Local Politics of Estate Design," Russian Literature, vol. 52.1-3 (2002), 283-298.
• “Prostranstvennaia poetika Tsarskogo Sela v ekaterininskoi prezentatsii imperii,” Tynianovskii sbornik, vol. 11 (2002), 51-66.
• "Social Power and Individual Agency: The Self in Greenblatt and Lotman," SEEJ, vol. 45.1 (2001), 61-79.
• "Gender Trial and Gothic Thrill: Nadezhda Durova's Subversive Self-Exploration," in Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation (London: Routledge Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001), 55-70.
• "Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea," Slavic Review 60.1 (spring, 2001), 1-23.
• "Gogol, the Picturesque, and the Desire for the People: A Reading of 'Rome'," The Russian Review 59 (October, 2000), 597-613.
• "The Scare of the Self: Sentimentalism, Privacy, and Private Life in Russian Culture, 1780-1820," Slavic Review, vol. 57.4 (1998), 723-746.
• "Of Sublimity, Shrinkage, and Selfhood in the Works of Bruno Schulz," Slavic and East-European Journal, vol. 42.3 (1998), 467-482.
• "Krasnaia zvezda A. Bogdanova: zhanr i vospriiatie," Tynianovskii sbornik, vol. 10 (1998). 158-166.
• "Teoriia fiktsional'nosti: kriticheskii obzor," Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, vol. 27 (1997). 41-53.
• "O tom, kak Sikstinskaia Madonna pokrovitel'stvovala russkomu romantizmu." Sed'mye tynianovskie chteniia: materialy dlia obsuzhdeniia (1995-96), 135-150.
• "Sklepy cynamonowe Brunona Schulza: Apologia tandety," trans. by J. Szpyra, Bruno Schulz 1892-1942. In memoriam, Lublin, 1992, 59-77.
• "Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz: The Apology of tandeta," The Polish Review, vol. 36.2 (1991), 127-144.

 

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