THE SCYLLA OF LIBERAL PROGRESSIVISM AND THE CHARYBDIS OF A DOGMATIC VICEGERENT APPROACH IN THE STUDY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

This polemical article presents two extreme viewpoints which currently exist in Russian literary criticism and which set the barrier for the adequate study of Russian literature. While liberal progressivism a priori stands for the negative attitude to Eastern Orthodoxy as such, the uncritical projection of a coherent system of religious dogmas on literary texts sets bounds to the perception of rich Eastern Orthodox traditions. A way out of this deadlock is seen in the study of Russian literature.