"Jewish" Narratives in Censored and Uncensored Russian-language Poetry of the "Thaw" Period (1956-1968): Semantics and Pragmatics

Student: Sorokina Daria

Supervisor: Ilya Kukulin

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The thaw period is a unique period in which the Jewish theme occupied a dual semi-taboo status. Russian-Jewish literature, as part of the thaw literature, has received a broad research interest in our time. Nevertheless, most contemporary works are based on a close analysis of the poetics and Jewish self-identification of the authors. This work attempts to create a classification scheme of Jewish narratives without directly appealing to rigid identification and revealing such narratives' more global cultural and aesthetic meanings. Such an approach will allow us to redefine the place of Jewish narratives among the thaw period's poetry.

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