...Michal Oklot Focusing on two modernist thinkers, Vasily Rozanov (1856 – 1919) and Ernst Bloch (1885 – 1976), the article examines the ontological and existential implications of their eschatological thinking and its concept of nonlinear time, which negates the future when thinking of what is ahead...

... of Matter in Gogol (and Gombrowicz) (2009) and is currently working on a monograph on the stylistic implications of Vasily Rozanov’s philosophical views. Alastair Renfrew is professor of English and comparative literature at Durham University. His books include Towards a New Material Aesthetics (2006...

... formalists, whose activity was closely tied to developments in the avant-garde Russian literature of the time. (The first issue of Poetics Journal featured a translation of a chapter from Viktor Shklovsky’s Theory of Prose [1929] on Vasily Rozanov, “Plotless Literature,” which is included in the book...

... forms of ideologized future projection, rather than one-dimensional “proofs” of the untenability and undesirability of utopian thinking as such. Keywords Lenin, Alain Badiou, utopia Golden was that first age, with no one to compel. Ovid What is to be done tomorrow? Vasily Rozanov...

... and promotion of modernist texts by Russian formalists in the first quarter of the twentieth century, evidenced, for example, by Jakobson’s work on Khlebni- kov, Boris Eichenbaum’s on Anna Akhmatova, and Shklovsky’s on Vasily Rozanov. What is more important for me here, however, is the position...