Velimir Khlebnikov’s poem “Vam”: context, intertext, ekphrasis
... early poem “Vam” (“To You”, 1909), addressed to Mikhail Kuzmin. Drawing on Kuzmin’s diary entries and Khlebnikov’s correspondence, it seeks to reconstruct the poets’ personal and creative relationship, clarify the dating of the young author’s letter to his mentor, and analyze the mechanisms of textual address within the poem. Particular attention is given to the poem’s intertextual dimensions. The first is literary, involving allusions to the works of Lord Byron (Childe Harold’s ...
Towards a dictionary of urban untranslatables
... deeply rooted in specific historical and social contexts. Focusing on phenomena such as Russian ‘ЖКХ-арт’ (municipal utility art), French ‘flânerie’, Indian ‘jugaad’, Spanish ‘tertúlia’, and Argentine ‘merendero’, the authors demonstrate that these concepts resist translation due to their embeddedness in local collective memory and everyday practices. The central thesis is that urban texts are fundamentally ‘untranslatable’ because of their multimodal ...
The image of Ekaterinoslav as an unrealized potentiality in Russian travelogues of the late 18th — 19th centuries
... scale, and ambition, and linked to figures of the imperial personosphere, including Empress Catherine II, her favourite Grigory Potemkin, and Emperor Joseph II of Austria. By contrast, representations of contemporary Ekaterinoslav by 19
th
-century authors are predominantly negative, marked by motifs of smallness, unattractiveness, provinciality, decay, monotony, heat, and mud.
imagology, travelogue, Ekaterinoslav, Novorossiya, Catherine II, Potemkin, space, Russian literature
132—150
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The cultural code of Saint Petersburg: the city in the perception of its residents
The article presents the results of a study on the cultural code of the city, using Saint Petersburg as a case study. The author conceptualizes the city as a symbolic space saturated with meanings that can be encoded and decoded. Accordingly, the study employs the category of the ‘cultural code’ as a relatively stable system for organizing cultural meanings mentally ...
“An exact statement in everyday speech”: on the essayistic “silvichness” of Polish prose
The essayistic tradition of Old Polish prose is examined, represented by authors of the Renaissance (Rey, Górnicki, Modrzejewski), Baroque (Pasek, B. Chmielowski), and Enlightenment (Krasicki) periods. The creator of the Polish essayistic canon was Mikołaj Rey, the author of the book Zerciadło, which Mickiewicz compared ...
The functioning of precedent names from source domain “Literature” in Richard Brautigan’s “Trout Fishing in America”
... The study employed methods of contextual and intertextual analysis, as well as the method of exhaustive sampling. The identified sample of literary precedent names (61 units) includes precedent biblionyms (titles of literary works), anchistonyms (authors’ surnames), and anthropoetonyms (names of characters). The following key functions of precedent names in Brautigan’s novel are established: ludic (realization of comic effect), poetic (enhancement of the artistic significance of the text ...
The role of Jean Chapelain in the development of French literary theory and criticism in the first half of the XVIIth century
... contribution to the establishment and consolidation of classicist aesthetics on a national level. The article addresses the critic’s role in the development of literature, his influence on the formation of aesthetic taste, his mediation between the author and the audience, and the nature of the political engagement in literary creativity demanded by the time, as well as the relationship between the creator and power. Chapelain’s texts are examined in their entirety, allowing for the tracing of ...
Alexandra Petrovna Khvostova (Kheraskova): the creative path of a writer and the experience of genre classification of heritage
... considered complete without reference to her name. Within the framework of the article, an attempt is made to classify Khvostova’s literary heritage by genre, which opens up prospects for further, more detailed study of her artistic world.
female author, Russian women’s literature, writers of the XVIII—XIX centuries, female writer, creative path, A. P. Khvostova
59-69
10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-3-6
Idiolect of a piece of litterature in the mirror of translation (based on the novel of E. Vodolazkin “Laurus”)
.... The methodology of the study is based on the postulates of F. Rastier’s interpretive semantics as a descriptive model of text interpretation. The study identifies and interprets the features of the idiolect and idiostyle as artistic tools of the author, as well as analyzes their reflection in the mirror of the French-language translation.
E. Vodolazkin, idiolect, idiostyle, interpretative semantics, “Laurus”, literary translation
36-45
10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-3-4
Time synaesthesia in W. Shakespeare’s texts: the semantics and pragmatics of colour
... aspect, sadness. Green color is metonymically associated with the ideas of novelty, youth, and at the same time inexperience and vulnerability. Artistically reinterpreted, the metonymic parallels are generalized into metaphorical images reflecting the author’s perception of the complex diversity of existence. A conclusion is drawn that the conjugation of temporal and color semantic elements individualizes both time and color, providing each moment of Shakespeare’s text with unique singularity.
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“Interrupted Flight” by V. Vysotsky: to the question of the title
... titles in the song’s textual history, their origins and textual status, the source of the title “Prervannyi polet”, and the reasons for its eventual textual consolidation. The creative history of the text is traced based on surviving manuscripts, authorized typescripts, and materials from audio archives. The study reveals that at different stages in the song’s history, the author used various titles for it; a number of non-authorial titles are also documented, including translated titles in ...
The four loves in C.S. Lewis’s novel “Till we have faces”10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-2-6
... types of love that C. S. Lewis discusses in detail in his treatise The Four Loves and in his mythological novel “Till We Have Faces”. Given the centrality of the theme of love in the novel, it is reasonable to assume that in this 1956 work, the author was already artistically reflecting on the ethical and psychological concepts he would later elaborate in the treatise, which was based on a series of radio talks broadcast by Lewis on American radio in 1958. The book “The Four Loves” was published ...
The topos of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”
... in the novel as a locus amoenus. The forest serves as a transformative space in the lives of the main characters; notably, only Hester Prynne successfully undergoes the “forest initiation.” This observation allows us to draw conclusions about the author’s true sentiment regarding the legend of the Black Man in the forest. The relevance of this research stems from the importance of engaging with classical texts and addressing existing gaps in scholarship, particularly the exploration of spatial ...
Lexical and grammarical characteristics words with the root рыж- (red-) in the poetry of the first third of the XX century
... the various grammatical forms of lexemes with the ryzh- root in the poetry of this period. The study demonstrates that the diversity of these color terms supplies the poetic language with grammatically varied means that contribute to realizing the author’s artistic vision. A structural-morphological classification of ryzhiy color nominations is proposed, taking into account the number of stems. The research draws upon a rich body of poetic material from the first third of the 20th century, illustrating ...
Peculiarities of the political media discourse as a factor in forming reputational capital of the heads of subjects of the Russian Federation (by the example of the Central Federal District regions)
The article examines the influence of the political media discourse of regional leaders on the formation of their reputational capital within a centralized political system. Using the example of the subjects of the Central Federal District, the authors analyze the relationship between the content of governors’ public speeches and their public perception. The study is based on a content analysis of materials from federal mass media and social networks, which made it possible to identify various ...
Development of the military-industrial complex of Pakistan in the 21st century as an element of the national military strategy
... well as the hypothesis of A. M. Fewolden and K. Tvetbroten regarding the effectiveness of implementing such innovations. In addition, certain results of the implementation of practical measures in this area over the past 7—10 years are studied. The author concludes that Pakistan is pursuing a balanced policy in the field of the military-industrial complex under conditions of political and economic instability and challenges related to the development of its own models of weapons. Furthermore, ...
Criminological study of the prevalence of pornographic content in social networks and messengers (based on an online user survey)
... phenomenon. In addition, other general scientific and specific scientific methods are employed. The main risks associated with the spread of pornography in social networks and messengers are identified, and measures for their minimization are proposed. The author suggests special criminological measures to combat pornographic content in social networks and messengers, including strengthening content control, developing and implementing content filters, conducting informational campaigns, improving legislative ...
Performing verification actions before initiating a criminal case: theory and practice
The investigation of any violation of the law begins with certain actions of law enforcement authorities, which must comply with the purposes of criminal proceedings (Article 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation). At the stage of initiating a criminal case, such verification actions are divided into operational-search measures,...
On the issue of constructing a taxonomy of tasks in teaching data analysis
... specialists. In this context, it is essential to focus on the methodology for teaching data analysis in universities. The aim of this article is to develop the basis of a taxonomy for creating practical data analysis tasks and to test its applicability. The author examines the main taxonomies of educational tasks, arguing that their limited applicability to the field of data analysis is due to its multidisciplinary and multifaceted nature. A horizontal-vertical taxonomy of educational tasks is proposed, ...
Creative laboratory of V.A. Sosnora (using the example of the poem Such merriment it was…)
... process in working on the text. The study draws on the poem’s draft version, which has not previously been examined by researchers of V. A. Sosnora’s work, as well as versions presented in Soviet and post-Soviet publications. Changes introduced by the author into the work are documented and analyzed. Phonetic, lexical, and punctuation differences across all available versions of the text are explored. Hypotheses are proposed to explain the creative history of the text. Particular attention is paid ...
Prison topos as an anti-home in V.G. Korolenko’s short story Yashka
... oppositions of “top — bottom” and “right — left” characteristic of Slavic mythology. A corresponding character system is constructed: the protagonist, Yakov, who disturbs everyone with his loud, persistent knocking aimed at denouncing the authorities, is contrasted with other prisoners and wardens. The goal of Yakov’s relentless spiritual struggle, in which he overcomes pain and suffering, is to obstruct all dark forces, which he perceives as servants of the Antichrist. In the narrator’s ...
«Soldiers of the word»: Soviet war correspondents on the battles in East Prussia, 1944—1945
... of the word” contributed to maintaining the morale of Soviet troops, popularizing the combat experience of Red Army units, and showcasing examples of heroism among soldiers and officers. While fulfilling the ideological tasks assigned by the Soviet authorities and constrained by strict censorship, the war correspondents simultaneously infused their essays and reports with their personal war experiences, leaving for posterity an invaluable historical source. An analysis of the war journalists’ ...
The image of Russia and Russians in the works of Józef Kraszewski in the late 1860s
... works of the Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski during the period following the suppression of the January Uprising, specifically in the second half of the 1860s. It explores how the events of 1863—1864, the repressive measures of the Tsarist authorities after the uprising, and the policy of Russification in the Kingdom of Poland were reflected in Kraszewski’s literary works. Special attention is given to the various types of Russian characters depicted in the author’s novels. Despite ...
The doctrinal factor of legal communication
... (one of the leading approaches in post-nonclassical legal science) and contemporary theoretical perspectives on the functions of legal doctrine as components of the process of constructing legal reality (legal systems). As a result of the study, the author proposes a definition of the doctrinal factor of legal communication as that segment of legal communication mediated by doctrinal texts, through which the legal system is constructed. The proposed definition integrates various manifestations of ...
The geopoetics of the city K.: the optics of perception
... of Königsberg-Kaliningrad in Bolotov's memoirs "Life and adventures of Andrey Bolotov, described by himself for his descendants", Brodsky's poem "Einem alten Architekten in Rom" and the novel "Königsberg" by Buida, the authors explore the sensorial perception of the city by the writers and establish its correlation with the extraliterary metapositions reflected in their texts. It is argued that the basis of the description of Königsberg in Bolotov's memoirs is a detailed ...
The image of Kaliningrad in the perception of university students
... historical, anthropological, social and household. The verbal representation of their structural and content characteristics was illustrated using the results of a survey based on the method of unfinished sentences, which was developed and conducted by the author.
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Cultural discrepancy within Russian-speaking community in Israel
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Typographic landscape in urban space: a sociolinguistic approach
... 2013. Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity. Ser.: Critical Language and Literacy Studies. Vol. 18. Bristol; Buffalo and Toronto: Multilingual Matters,
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Gorod and grad in the Russian poetry of the 18th century
... phraseology and grammar, allows important conclusions concerning the history of the national semiosphere and conceptosphere based on the analysis of the works of outstanding representatives of culture and literature of a nation. In the article, the author analyzes the usage, frequency, valency potential, and the system of poetic senses of the lexemes 'gorod' and 'grad' using the poems of reformers of the Russian language and literature of the 18th century — Kantemir, Trediakovsky, Lomonosov,...
“Noise” as a key to semiosis: the brain and culture (40 years later)
... explores the context important for the analysis of Lotman’s talk at the seminar on the problem of semiogenesis and functional specialization of cerebral hemispheres as a model of intellectual processes, which was held in Tartu. Forty years later, the author analyses changes in the viewpoints on the proposed model, taking into account the data of experimental neuroscience. The article emphasizes the fundamental value and topicality of Yuri Lotman’s ideas on the production of meaning in individual ...
Meaning of proper names in contexts of attitudes: de re naming and fictions
The author explores the meaning of proper names and other types of singular terms in the context of propositional attitudes, combining the problems of empty names, rigid designators and non-specific reading. An object in the attitudes can be given to the ...
Сorrelation of the oral and the written in topolect poetry
The paper describes the practice of creating poetic texts on lects that possess a problematic linguistic status. The author proposes using ‘topolect’ as a universal term for such entities, which allows them to be placed in a special category of language systems that occupy an intermediate level between the standard and the rather homogeneous territorial dialects ...
Poetics of the deconstruction of Reinhard Jirgl’s text: A translational perspective
... of Jirgl’s texts. His prose exploits the enormous poetic potential of the alphanumeric code, the aesthetics of narrative simultaneity and hypertextuality, and the fragmentedness of the agent. The principle of aberrant text production helps the author stage the process of sense formation and brings to the fore the concept of hierarchical rule destruction, which applies to language, society, and reality. By deconstructing syntax and orthography, Jirgl’s system of language and script generates ...
Who is the one who uses the human language? On Alexsander Kravchenko's article "Language and the Nature of Humanity")
The article is devoted to the polemic with Alexander Kravchenko regarding his thesis that the way out of the protracted crisis in linguistics is to use a systemic approach to linguistic semiosis as biological adaptation. The author argues that linguistics is not in a state of crisis but rather in a state of stagnation. Overcoming it presupposes an intensive methodological search that infinitely expands the horizons of permissible views rather than the use of a system approach ...
A poetic function in an expanding context: title — monoverse — polytext (on the example of Ivan Zhdanov's poetry)
... and metacycles with movable boundaries. The material of the research is Ivan Zhdanov's monoverses, which were considered both immanently and as part of the book. The main methods of research are semantic, contextual and distributive analysis. The author concludes that the heading, interpreting the text, sets its reference, and the monoverse is both a self-sufficient text and an aphoristic expression of many other texts in which the keywords forming it are found. They represent a synthetic proposition ...
Ethnography in Translation Studies: an object and a research methodology
... appropriated this concept, first as a way to solve translation problems (with Eugene Nida), then as an object (within the cultural turn) and more recently as a research methodology to document and analyze translation and interpreting events in context. The author shows how, in the early seventies, both cultural anthropology and TS saw a change in paradigm that brought the two disciplines closer at the surface level (as the metaphor of culture as a text gained grounds), but that draw them very much apart ...
Interaction of comparative structures and their elements in modern russian prose
... the types of interaction between metaphors and similes in the texts of modern Russian prose. The material of the study is the works of Buida, Vodolazkin, Ivanov, Ilichevsky, Matveeva, Pelevin, Rubina, Slavnikova, Sokolov, Sorokin, and Stepnova. The authors employed the methods of description, comparison and the structural-semantic analysis and also took into account the semantic field organisation of lexical units. The article distinguishes between formal and semantic interaction of metaphors ...
Continuity of Texts. Metafiction in a Cortazar Short Story and its Swedish Translation
This article analyzes the Swedish translation of the short story Continuidad de los parques, written by the Argentine author Julio Cortázar and translated into Swedish by the translator Jan Sjögren. This short story is an excellent piece of metafiction as it plays with the relationship between a fictional reader and the real reader. By creating an aesthetic illusion,...
Theatrical interpretation of a literary work from the standpoint of semiotic creativity
... November, 2020). The play and its multimodal interpretations are viewed as parts of a unique communicative space. These parts may be specified as the original communicative situation and the ‘derivatives’ characterized by semiotic creativity of their authors — the playwright and the directors. The concept of semiotic resonance is used as a tool that can help to deepen the analysis of the meaning construction in the heterogeneous discourse of drama. Semiotic resonance is understood as the correlations ...
Entertainment and education through literary translation in a diaspora newspaper. Literary translations in Prosveta, a newspaper of Slovene-American émigré community
... 1916 to 1933 when it began appearing only five days a week and its circulation began to fall. We analyzed 5273 issues of Prosveta, identified all literary translations, and classified them into three categories. The results show that the choice of authors whose works were translated and published in the newspaper reflects the ideological positioning of the editors and newspaper, and blurs the distinction between two categories of translated works: between the works selected for the education ...
Linguistic creativity of the avant-garde: language functions in literary and advertising discourses
... analysis of Russian literary (experimental) and advertising (avant-garde) texts is carried out from the standpoint of the theory of linguistic creativity. For each of the working subcorpora (artistic and advertising discourses of the 1910—1930s), the authors distinguish macro-discursive, micro-discursive and inter-discursive parameters that affect linguistic innovations at different levels — from phonological to pragmatic. It is concluded that the strategy of delayed, de-automated perception is ...
The noun visilka: a semantic portrait and a system of multiple meanings (based on police search documentation of the second half of the 19th century)
... of the important aspects of studying the Russian business language of the second half of the 19th century — the formation of the lexical meaning of the noun visilka (exile, expulsion), typical of the police procedure documentation of the time. The author discovered business texts of this type in the funds of the State Archive of the Tyumen region, the State Archive of the Omsk region, and the State Archive of the Irkutsk region. All texts date back to the late 19th century. The study of the lexeme ...
Literary scandal in cubo-futurism poetics and the communicative behaviour of recipients
... performance is concerned. The latter is an essential component of the “literary everyday routine” of the poetic circles analysed. Not only does scandal betray an intention of insulting the recipient but also it is due to the scandal that the avant-garde author could find the addressee, become closer to him and make him more engaged in a poetic happening. The goal of the study (based on the evidence of cubo-futurist public performances) is to describe a scandal as a communicative script, a frame, identify ...
Translating philosophical aesthetics: Peritext as a window into the translator's mind. Part 2
... Translated by L. Melkova. Leningrad (in Russ.).
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Poetical reduplications in Alexander Vvedensky’s fiction
... the "doubling of the world" is a mirror, which deforms and transforms reality. Mirror semiosis illustrates the loss of iconicity by reduplication and, as a consequence, the impossibility to represent the object by its reflection. The authors conclude that on the level of vocabulary and grammar, reduplication creates dynamism in the verbal space of the text, activates its interpretation and thus creates the situation of gnoseological doubt in the adequacy of language as a means ...