The role of Jean Chapelain in the development of French literary theory and criticism in the first half of the XVIIth century
... article is to present the multifaceted figure of Jean Chapelain as the foremost French critic and literary theorist of the first half of the 17th century. Significant attention is given to Chapelain’s connection with his time, during which the function of literature and the position of the writer were evolving, as well as his substantial 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,...
Disasters in S. King’s short stories: Fantasy becoming reality
... philosophy, sociology, and art studies, which provide definitions, describe the essence of the concepts of “catastrophic consciousness” and “catastrophe,” and propose a typology of catastrophes. A brief overview of works of contemporary English-language literature representing this problem is presented, and the main themes and directions of its development are identified. The practical material consists of stories from the collection “Night Shift” by contemporary American writer Stephen King, which depict ...
The choices of readers and writers in Russian fanfiction
... readers and writers. This study presents the results of an internet-based survey and compares them with data from previous research efforts. It focuses on currently popular works, with particular attention given to fanfics based on Russian and Soviet literature. Of particular interest are those interactions between the author and the reader where there is a tendency for these roles to merge. The study explores readership preferences based on age and selected text stimuli. It also provides an overview ...
Idyll, history, rationality: city images in “Real Journey to Germany in 1835” by Nikolay Gretsch
..., presented in Nikolay Gretsch’s travelogue “The real trip to Germany in 1835”. The author determines the link between the images of the two cities and the tradition of describing Germany as an idyllic place. This tradition was widespread in Russian literature at the end of the 18th century — first half of the 19th century. In Gretsch’s text, Lubeck and Hamburg are depicted as idyllic but to different degrees. The locus of Lubeck is a homogeneous, patriarchal and achronous idyll, a static space that ...
“Bavaria, which I will never forget”: to the image of German space in “Travel letters from England, Germany and France” by Nikolay Gretch
... with spaces of demi-natural idyll, historical memory and art. Other loci mentioned in the text are simpler in structure. In addition, Gretch’s representation of the Bavarian space reveals its connection with four modes of describing Germany in Russian literature of the 19th century: sentimentalist, romanticist, neutral-factual and travesty world-images.
Aksenova, M. V., 2020. “Travel Letters from England, Germany and France” by N. I. Grech in the Context of Russian Travel Literature of the XIX ...
