Author’s Journal as Type of Literary Edition

Abstract

Taking into account the structural features, peculiarities of the journal context and methods of its integration, the article demonstrates a typological model of the “author’s” literary journal considered as one of the typological models of a large-volume journal (literary, universal, common journal type). The article reveals typological versions of the “author’s” journals of Russian press in the 18-19th centuries. The authors established that the general typological model united the “author’s” journals with similar typological features. The owner, the publisher and the editor acted on his/her own, as well as he/she was the only or the main author of journal texts of different genres. Besides, he/she had an opportunity to create all journal discourses directly: artistic, publicistic, literary review which lead to the extreme consolidation of the journal context on the semantic (problem and thematic), formal (compositional and stylistic), worldview levels. The article proves that in the course of evolution, differentiation of the “the author’s journal» model with the formation of its typological features has taken place. Russian journalism included the author’s journal novel, the author’s literary and artistic journal, the author’s encyclopaedic journal, the author’s monographic journal. The authors of the article demonstrate that typological versions of the author’s journal are distinguished by degree of the publisher’s and editor’s involvement into the journal management process, their structure, ratio of the main journal discourses, volume and genres of the texts published, as well as methods of journal context consolidation.