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This article examines two methodologies for analyzing a literary work. The first one was developed by M.M. Bakhtin on the basis of a broad aesthetic and philosophical approach; the second one was developed by V.M. Zhirmunsky on the basis of a more specific formal and poetological approach. These methodologies were applied by both researchers to A.S. Pushkin's poems in the 1920s. It is argued that Bakhtin's methodology was worked out in opposition to the main provisions of Zhirmunsky, who was close to the position of Russian formalism, also taking into account L.V. Shcherba's achievements in the field of the linguistic analysis of a poetic text. This article describes the fundamental differences in the methodological conceptions of the philosopher and the literary critic concerning the nature of verbal creativity and understanding of the spatial and temporal organization of a literary work. The comparison of two analyses of Pushkin's poem "For the Shores of Distant Homeland…", shows that Zhirmunsky reduces the spatial and temporal aspects of a work of art to the compositional arrangement of verbal and sound material, since he considers verbal creativity as a linguistic phenomenon, while Bakhtin refers to the space and time of aesthetic reality, drawing a distinction between the composition and the architectonics of the literary work. It appears that the philosopher perceives the work as a field of dialogue between various subjects of consciousness (the author, the characters, the reader), while the literary critic proceeds from the author's primacy as creator of a system of artistic techniques, giving the reader a position of passive perception. It is concluded that both methods of analysis complement each other organically, Zhirmunsky analyzing the verbal-compositional dimensions of a literary work and Bakhtin its objective-architectonic dimension.

We provide here the review of the 6th International Conference of Young Scientists "Space and Time in Russian Literature and Philosophy", held on November 14–16, 2023 at "A.F. Losev House – Research Library and Memorial Museum" in Moscow and dedicated to the 170th anniversary of V.S. Solovyov and the 130th anniversary of A.F. Losev. The Conference ended with the summing up of the All-Russian competition of works by young scientists "Daring of the spirit". We note that since the existence of the conference and for six years now, "Solovyov Studies" journal has been its permanent organizer, along with "A.F. Losev House", the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the A.F. Losev Center for Russian Language and Culture, Institute of Philology, Moscow Pedagogical State University. We provide the information on the course of the conference over three days and the work of 11 meetings, at which the results of 80 research by young scientists and specialists from various scientific and educational organizations in Russia, China, Hungary and Israel were presented. We give a detailed analysis of the topics of the reports read at the conference, the main thematic areas, philosophical and literary problems related to the understanding of space and time as ontological and artistic categories, as well as those that aroused the greatest interest among its participants.