Literay Fact Literay Fact 2541-8297 2542-2421 IWL RAS https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2016-1-2-370-379 Articles On a Philological Method (Notes on a Matter of Current Interest) Nikolayev Sergey I. editor@litfact.ru 2016 philological method scientific theory microhistory histprical anthropology protopope Avvakum (Petrov) Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 Current reflexions on a philological method and theoretical basis of the literary research were the subject of the paper presented at the panel “The Grounds for the Historicizing Reading” at the XLV International Philological Conference held in St. Petersburg University, March 2016. The article based on the paper is to be published in the collection The Art of Close Reading. History, Traditions, Modernity (Moscow: IMLI RAN Publ., 2017). The Editorial Board of Literary Fact is grateful to the author and to N.N. Smirnova, the editor of the collection, for the opportunity to make a preprint in our journal. 1. Vinogradov V.V. O iazyke khudozhestvennoi prozy [On the language of fiction]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1980. 360 p. (In Russ.) 2. Gavrilov A.K. O filologakh i filologii: Stat’i i vystupleniia raznykh let [About Philologists and Philology: Articles and speeches of various years]. Saint-Petersburg, S.-Peterb. un-ta Publ., 2011. 380 p. (In Russ.) 3. Ginzburg K. Mify-emblemy-primety: Morfologiia i istoriia [Myths, emblems, signs: Morphology and History]. Moscow, Novoe izdatel’stvo Publ., 2004. 348 p. (In Russ.) 4. Gudzii N.K. Istoriia drevnei russkoi literatury [The history of Old Russian literature]. 5 ed. Moscow, Znanie Publ., 1953. 512 p. (In Russ.) 5. Demin A.S. Drevnerusskaia literaturnaia animalistika [Old Russian literary animalier art]. Drevnerusskaia literatura: Izobrazhenie prirody i cheloveka [Old Russian literature: Image of the nature and person]. Moscow, Nasledie Publ., 1995, pp. 89–126. (In Russ.) 6. Dovatur A.I. Ustnye vospominaniia [Oral memories], podg. teksta i primech. L.L. Ermakovoi. Drevnii mir i my: Klassicheskoe nasledie v Evrope i Rossii [Ancient World and Us: Classical Heritage in Europe and Russia]. Saint-Petersburg, Dmitrii Bulanin Publ., 2014, vyp. 5. 404 p. (In Russ.) 7. Zhebelev S.A. Vvedenie v arkheologiiu [Introduction to archeology]. Petrograd, Nauka i shkola Publ., 1923. Vyp. 1–2. (In Russ.) 8. Kozhinov V. Proiskhozhdenie romana [Origins of the novel]. Moscow, Sovetskii pisatel’ Publ., 1963. 440 p. (In Russ.) 9. Lappo-Danilevskii A.S. Metodologiia istorii [Methodology of History], v 2 t. Moscow, ROSSPEN Publ., 2010. (In Russ.) 10. Nikolaev S.I. Kurochka protopopa Avvakuma i vydra Iana Paseka [Protopope Avvakum’s Hen and Jan Pasek’s otter]. Russica Romana, 2003, vol. 10, pp. 35–43. (In Russ.) 11. Peretts V.N. Iz lektsii po metodologii istorii russkoi literatury: Istoriia izuchenii. Metody. Istochniki [From lectures on the methodology of the history of the Russian literature: history of the studies. Methods. Sources]. Kiev, Trud Publ., 1914. 332 p. (In Russ.) 12. Tarkovskii R.B., Tarkovskaia L.R. Ezop na Rusi. Vek XVII [Aesop in Russia. Century XVII]. Saint-Petersburg, Dmitrii Bulanin Publ., 2005. 552 p. (In Russ.) 13. Krzyżanowski J. Nauka o literaturze. Wyd. 2. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1969. 520 p. 14. Nikolaev А. M. L. West and the British Philological Method (https://www.academia.edu/14390225/M._L._West_and_the_British_Philological_Method). 15. Perkins D. Is Literary History Possible? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.