Mandelstam’s camp poem: an attempt at reconstruction
... Osip Mandelstam’s last poem, recorded from the poet’s voice in a transit camp. Two main tasks are pursued: the verification of authorship and the reconstruction of the original text. The poem is analysed against the background of the Russian poetic tradition and within the context of Mandelstam’s late work. It is argued that the extant record is not a fragment of a lost text, but a complete poem—a one-line epigram. Rhythmic and phonetic analysis brings this poem close to the experiments ...
Christmas and Easter archetypes in A. Varlamov’s story “The Little Star”: to the plot and character typology problem
... complicated, combined with the image of Liza; the girl, like a little star, is able to show the way to God, and this is also reflected in the title of the story.
Modern Russian prose, A. Varlamov, Christian axiology, Easter archetype, Christmas archetype, poetics of plot
98-106
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-2-9
The intermedial features of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “musical short story” Nocturne
... organization in Ishiguro’s short story Nocturne allow for the characterization of a broader range of techniques for conveying the “musicality” of the text as a genre- and structure-forming feature.
intermediality, musical short story, musical poetics, postmodernism
70-79
10.5922/vestnikpsy-2024-4-7
Central images and motifs of Gennady Shpalikov’s late poems (article one)
... late poems is determined by the internal catastrophic change in the psychological state of the lyrical subject, seeking voluntary departure from life, which is reflected in the expressive, emotionally evaluative, and reduced lexicon, the tightness of poetic lines, and tense syntax.
Gennady Shpalikov, poetry, poetics, image, motive, motivic structure, lyrical subject
89-99
10.5922/pikbfu-2024-1-8
The topos of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”
... this research stems from the importance of engaging with classical texts and addressing existing gaps in scholarship, particularly the exploration of spatial poetics in Hawthorne’s work.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter”, spacial poetics, forest, the topos of the forest
51—64
10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-2-5
