Meaning of Pushkinology | Babel Free

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The study of Alexander Pushkin.

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“The little volume of Professor Wacław Lednicki, who has already done so much in the domain of “Pushkinology,” contains three separate⟳ essays:[…]”

“We may further imagine⟳ that Coleridge’s and Poncet’s doleful singer was none other than Pushkin’s great-great-grandmother; that her lord, either of Poncet’s two hosts, was Pushkin’s great-great-grandfather; and that the latter was a son of Cella Christos, Dr. Johnson’s Rasselas. There is nothing in the annals of Pushkinology to restrain one from the elaboration of such fancies.”

“There is no more imposing work⟳ of scholarship on Pushkin in any language, and, long before the novels of Sirin and Nabokov are recognized in the Soviet Union, Soviet Pushkinology must come⟳ to terms with Nabokov’s Onegin.”

“HELENOLOGY / (An attempt⟳ at the construction of a new science) /[…]/ 2. The sciences about one person, such as Shakespearology, Napoleonology, Pushkinology, Marxology, and so forth, study⟳ the contribution of the given person to history, literature, social thought, and so forth.”

CEFR level