Pushkinology
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pushkinology (uncountable)
- The study of Alexander Pushkin.
- 1937–38, Gleb Struve, “Centennial Essays for Pushkin […] Hommage à Pouchkine. […] Puszkin. […] ”, in The Slavonic (and East European) Review: A Survey of the Slavonic Peoples, Their History, Economics, Philology and Literature, volume sixteen, London: […] Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers), Ltd., […] for the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in the University of London, page 236:
- The little volume of Professor Wacław Lednicki, who has already done so much in the domain of “Pushkinology,” contains three separate essays: […]
- 1962 July, “Pushkin and Gannibal: A Footnote”, in Encounter, volume XIX, number 1, translation of original by Vladimir Nabokov, page 26, column 2:
- 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.
- 1967, Andrew Field, Nabokov: His Life in Art, Boston, Mass, Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, chapter nine, page 288:
- 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.
- 1995, Mikhail Epstein, “Ivan Soloviev’s Reflections on Eros”, in Ellen E. Berry, editor, Postcommunism and the Body Politic (Genders; 22), New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 259:
- 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.