Tutkimusmatkalla helvetissä: Tšehovin Sahalinin tieteellis-ideologinen diskurssi
Journey to Hell: Scientific-ideological discourse in Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island This article examines the relation of Anton Chekhov’s documentary travelogue Sakhalin Island (Ostrov Sakhalin, 1895) to the developments of Russian scientific culture in the latter part of the nineteenth century, particul...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/74779 2023-05-15T18:08:45+02:00 Tutkimusmatkalla helvetissä: Tšehovin Sahalinin tieteellis-ideologinen diskurssi Klapuri, Tintti 2009-09-01 application/pdf https://journal.fi/avain/article/view/74779 https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74779 fin fin Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura https://journal.fi/avain/article/view/74779/36338 https://journal.fi/avain/article/view/74779 doi:10.30665/av.74779 Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain; No 3-4 (2009); 74-88 AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti; Nro 3-4 (2009); 74-88 2242-3796 1795-3790 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli 2009 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74779 2020-05-29T22:14:42Z Journey to Hell: Scientific-ideological discourse in Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island This article examines the relation of Anton Chekhov’s documentary travelogue Sakhalin Island (Ostrov Sakhalin, 1895) to the developments of Russian scientific culture in the latter part of the nineteenth century, particularly focusing on the ways in which Chekhov utilizes the ideas of Darwinism and positivism to argue his case for modernization and humanization of the Russian penal system. The article shows that in Sakhalin Island, originally natural scientific ideas such as mutual aid and gradual adaptation are transformed into means of ideological argumentation, very much in the spirit of the time. Moreover, it can be argued that the methodological assumptions of Chekhov’s documentary travelogue embody empi¬rical research during the time when positivistic methodologies and positivistic world-view widened to embrace subjective observation. Finally, this article explicates how the “objective” Chekhov indeed takes a political stand and even offers concrete solutions to social problems. For example, Chekhov suggests the replacement of communal cells with individual households, the enhancement of rational settlement politics and the Russification of the Sakhalian indigenous people according to their own needs. All these solutions are based on the ideas prevalent in the Russian scientific culture at the time. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Penal ENVELOPE(100.667,100.667,-66.033,-66.033) AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti 3-4 74 88 |
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Journey to Hell: Scientific-ideological discourse in Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island This article examines the relation of Anton Chekhov’s documentary travelogue Sakhalin Island (Ostrov Sakhalin, 1895) to the developments of Russian scientific culture in the latter part of the nineteenth century, particularly focusing on the ways in which Chekhov utilizes the ideas of Darwinism and positivism to argue his case for modernization and humanization of the Russian penal system. The article shows that in Sakhalin Island, originally natural scientific ideas such as mutual aid and gradual adaptation are transformed into means of ideological argumentation, very much in the spirit of the time. Moreover, it can be argued that the methodological assumptions of Chekhov’s documentary travelogue embody empi¬rical research during the time when positivistic methodologies and positivistic world-view widened to embrace subjective observation. Finally, this article explicates how the “objective” Chekhov indeed takes a political stand and even offers concrete solutions to social problems. For example, Chekhov suggests the replacement of communal cells with individual households, the enhancement of rational settlement politics and the Russification of the Sakhalian indigenous people according to their own needs. All these solutions are based on the ideas prevalent in the Russian scientific culture at the time. |
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