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This article deals with the literature of perestroika and focuses on the post-Soviet period. From the period of perestroika onwards, Russian literature, in its three avatars as official Soviet literature, dissident literature in the samizdat and Russian literature published abroad, came under the single category of 'Russian Literature'. However, many diverse voices continue to exist in this now 'unified' literary scenario. The article identifies major movements, themes, critical positions and styles in contemporary Russian literature. It analyses works by major contemporary writers and also examines critical voices in the contemporary literary scene.

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.

Abstract: In "Peripheralities: 'Minor' Literatures, Women's Literature, and Adrienne Orosz de Csicser's Novels" Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses events surrounding Adrienne Orosz de Csicser's (1878-1934) work. For the contextualization
of the events Tötösy de Zepetnek employs his own framework of "comparative cultural studies" here applied to "minor literatures" (i.e., peripheral) and women's literature and Shunqing Cao's "variation theory." While Orosz's novels are
not considered exceptional, the author achieved notoriety after locked up in a mental institution. In addition to three published novels, in an unpublished novel (excerpts of which she read at various literary and social gatherings) Orosz narrates her love affair with a Roman Catholic bishop.
Knowledge about her novel's contents resulted in the bishop orchestrating Orosz's commitment to a mental hospital. The context in which Orosz's texts are located in is the socio-political situation in Hungarian society prior to and shortly after the First World War.

Abstract"Scar Literature," a literary movement in twentieth-century Chinese literature, encompasses a series of works written after the Cultural Revolution. The scar metaphor was taken from the title of a short story, "The Scar," and characterized a series of works with common features. The outlines of "Scar Literature" are blurred, mixed and intertwined with other literary trends and movements. But while Chinese and foreign literary criticism claim that it was short-lived, its influences are visible in several works by contemporary authors. Based on the idea that literary works are prone to being analyzed as a form of persuasive discourse, this paper identifies typical rhetorical procedures of this literary trend and its influences in certain emblematic works: the recurrence of topoi (figures such as "rehabilitation," peculiar to the Cultural Revolution); inductive reasoning (the construction of a historiographic reasoning via the exemplum); recourse to pathos; and the metaphorical figure of the scar bearing the value of the plotline. This analysis applies concepts of New Rhetoric and discourse linguistics, in particular, concepts developed by Olbrecht-Tyteca and Perelman, Amossy's approach about pathos and the role of emotions and "figurality" in argumentation, and Plantin's linguistic theory of the emotions.

Les études qui ont tenté d'expliquer la ségrégation dans les activités sociales de la famille, relativement à la communauté, en insistant sur son statut socio‐économique et la cohérence de son réseau (network connectedness), ont été en grande partie peu concluantes. Cette étude entreprend une critique d'évaluation de ces 2 façons d'aborder la question et explore ensuite un autre raisonnement voulant que l'explication de la ségrégation sociale puisse se retrouver dans l'expérience de travail du salarié qui la transmet à sa vie de famille. Plusieurs études théoriques et empiriques admettent l'hypothèse que la ségrégation dans les activites sociales de type primaire et centrées sur l'organisation, est une réaction aux contraintes professionnelles et aux orientations spécifiques provenant de dispositions de travail fortement bureaucratiques, de travaux automatisés et de carrières déréglées. A l'aide d'analyses de classification multiples (Multiple Classification Analysis) on a examiné ces hypothèses avec des données portant sur 105 unités familiales à salaire unique de la région de York Est, à Toronto. Les données ont confirmé ces hypothèses alternatives. Il y a eu un certain appui pour les hypothèses de statut socio‐économique, mais aucune conclusion définitive n'est ressortie de l'hypothese du réseau. Les resultats de cette recherche indiquent le besoin de remplacer les études conventionnelles centrées sur le statut socio‐économique et les réseaux communautaires par d'autres qui se pencheraient sur la participation sociale relativement aux différentes composantes de l'expérience de travail. Les implications de ces résultats sont discutées en réponse à certaines opinions qui semblent minimiser les répercussions des pressions du travail sur la vie de famille dans les communautés industrielles qui vivent dans l'abondance.Studies that have attempted to explain segregation in community‐related social activities of the family by concentrating on its SES and network connectedness have been largely inconclusive. Following a critical evaluation of these two approaches, this paper explores an alternative argument that suggests that an explanation of social segregation may be sought in the work experience of wage‐earners which they carry over to their family life. Several theoretical and empirical studies are reviewed to hypothesize that segregation in both primary and organization‐focused social activities occurs in response to occupational constraints and specific orientations that stem from highly bureaucratic work settings, mechanically‐paced jobs and disorderly work careers. Using Multiple Classification Analysis, these hypotheses are examined with data on 105 intact, single‐earner families of East York, Toronto. The data showed a greater support for these alternative hypotheses. There was some support for the SES hypothesis but no definitive findings emerged on the network hypothesis. The findings of this study indicate a need for shifting the conventional focus from SES and social networks to studies of social participation in relation to different components of the work experience. The implications of these findings are discussed for certain competing views that seem to underplay the impact of work pressures on family life in affluent industrial societies.