Literary community in contemporary Russian city (the case of Rostov-Don)

Literary community in contemporary Russian city (the case of Rostov-Don)


Sushchiy S.Ya.

Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Chief researcher, Federal Research Center the Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, Russia SS7707@mail.ru

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Sushchiy S.Ya. Literary community in contemporary Russian city (the case of Rostov-Don). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2014. No 2. P. 95-106




Abstract

Analyzed are the structure and characteristics of the literary community of Rostov-on-Don. The author comes to the conclusion about the quantitative growth of the urban literary community with a parallel erosion of the criteria of its vertical stratification. Growing coincidence of many “writing” persons and local reading audience is stated.


Keywords
sociodynamics; regional culture; urban literary community; artistic samizdat
Content No 2, 2014