Dostoevsky’s “Pushkin Speech” as the Archetext of English Pushkin Studies of the 20th Century
Journal: Dostoevsky and World Culture Philological journal
Year: 2025

The article highlights the problem of the influence of Dostoevsky’s “Pushkin Speech” on the development of English Pushkin studies in the period from the 1910s to the 1960s. It is argued that this speech became an archetext for English works on Pushkin, that is, a text to which the common vector of interpreting Pushkin’s work largely originated. It is demonstrated that the significance of the “Pushkin Speech” for the English intellectuals’ ideas about Pushkin’s works was determined by the format