THE TRADITION CONTINUES: MUSATOV READINGS - 2019
The publication presents the general characteristics of the International Conference “Musatov Readings”, organized by the Department of Philology of the Humanitarian Institute of Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, held in 2019. The conference is associated with the name of Vladimir Vasilievich Musatov (1949-2003), a famous researcher of poetry of the 20th century, the author of monographs on the work of O.E.Mandelstam, A.A.Akhmatova, a textbook for higher education “History of Russian literature of the first half of the 20th century”. The main problem of readings is the consideration of the dynamics of artistic traditions in Russian literature of the XIX-XXI centuries. A wide range of names of poets and writers were presented in the reports, new interpretations of poems, poetic cycles and collections of poems were proposed, topical problems of Russian literature were discussed, problems of genre and artistic identity were considered, national mentality in prose, traditions and innovations of mass literature, traditions of the “new” Russian drama, discussed the debating problems of modern literary criticism. Representatives of different generations of literary critics took part in the readings.