| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1104268 | Russian Literature | 2008 | 29 Pages |
The article examines Grigorii Gukovskii's “stage theory” (especially presented in his works of the 1930s) in the context of its wide application to the Soviet school practice. The monographs by Gukovskii are compared with the texts of school textbooks of the end of the 1930s, made under strong influence of the “stage theory”. Gukovskii's activity as a professor of school teaching methodology is the subject of the second part of the article. In both parts the author reveals that Gukovskii tried to conciliate Soviet ideology in the field of literary criticism. He pretended to be an “arbiter” between ideological and research schemes in literary analysis. At the school level his “stage theory” got out of its creator's control. The end of such a play with the Soviets was the death of the scholar.
