Russian literature and journalism: from empiricism to theory. Collective monograph review: Kholikov A.A., Orlova E.I. (ed., comp.). Russian literature and journalism in the pre-revolutionary era: forms of interaction and methodology of analysis. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021. 768 p.

The article reviews the collective monograph “Russian Literature and Journalism in the Pre-Revolutionary Era: Forms of Interaction and Methodology of Analysis”. It has been established that the novelty of the publication is associated with the development of fundamentally new methodological approaches to the analysis of the interaction between literary, artistic and journalistic discourses. It is determined that one of the most important methodological guidelines of the monograph has become communication science. The methods of communicative-pragmatic analysis are fruitfully applied in the work: thus, under the sign of communicativistics, forms of reception, image, reputational strategies are studied, a typological commonality of communicative practices in the literature in journalism is found. It was revealed that one of the problematic centers of the monograph was the issue of the institutionalization of journalism in the academic environment. The book puts forward a positive program for such institutionalization, associated with a change in the object of research and a shift in the disciplinary “point of identification” of the history of journalism. The analysis of the interaction of literature and journalism at the turn of the century in the context of the emergence of mass culture is recognized as scientifically significant; the monograph convincingly demonstrates that the massification of culture determines both the genre-structural changes in publicistic and literary texts, and the change in relations within the triad “journalist - writer - public”. It is concluded that the reliability of the main conclusions of the monograph is ensured by the amount of material involved. The interaction of literature and journalism is studied in a wide methodological range (from politics to “pure art”) and on different material (both the central and provincial press are involved). In conclusion, it is shown that in the monograph under review, the empirical approach is organically combined with the theoretical one: on the one hand, the publication offers an extensive collection of empirical data, and on the other hand, new methodological tools are formed with which these data can be comprehended.