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This article considers the genre poetics of the novels by the Polish writer of Belarusian descent, Sergiusz Piasecki. The authors identify the features of artistic incarnation of the actual autobiographical material, the genre forming role of Belarusian and Russian substrata, the influence of the tradition of Russian classical novel, as well as the manifestation of the elements of adventure and ideological novels. 1. Бахтин М. Эстетика словесного творчества. М., 1979. 2. Песецкий С. Человек, превращенный...

The article analyses the peculiarities of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “New Poems” in the context of mythological constructions of German Romanticism. The author formulates the hypothesis of mythologisation as the expression of the sacred in poetry. The epiphany of the image of the Thing (das Ding) is reached by means of artistic representations, which allows stating the connection between the 'matter' of poetry and its higher source, as well as its inner mythological quality. 1.  Вакенродер В.   Г ....

This article emphasises the significance of the diary genre in Jerzy Andrzejewski's prosaic experiments of the 1970s. The author considers the poetics of Andrzejewski's "literary diary" From One Day to Another and unfinished novel of diary "genesis" Hundred Years Ago and Now. 1.  Andrzejewski   J . Gra z cieniem. Warszawa, 1987. 2.  Andrzejewski   J . Z dnia na dzień. Dziennik literacki 1972 — 1979. Warszawa, 1988. T.  1, 2 . 3.  Andrzejewski   J . Zeszyt Marcina. Warszawa...

The article determines the key elements of the Weltanschauung of the great American 19th century poet and writer. The author criticises some interpretations of Poe’s views on the Universe, God and cognition problem. 1.  Головин Е.   В. Лавкрафт — исследователь аутсайда. URL: http://www.lovecraft....

The article examines musical motifs in the poetry of N. P. Gronsky, a representative of the first wave of the Russian diaspora, drawing on mythopoetic and hermeneutic approaches. It identifies the connection of his works with the concept of Pythagoreanism and the idea, characteristic of world art, of dividing the cosmos into Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis, a concept particularly prevalent in Silver Age lyric poetry. In Gronsky’s lyrics, music is primarily associated with...

The article examines 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 ...

... national retirement benefit are identified; in particular, attention is paid to the specific features of assigning pensions of this type to relatives of Russian literary classics, his biography is уточнена, and the degree of kinship with the poet is established. The authors of the study are guided by the principles of historicism and scholarly objectivity. The historical and biographical method, based on the analysis of documents of a personal nature, made it possible to reconstruct the life ...

The Easter archetype, with its main idea of the resurrection, focuses on the spiritual reality of the Heavenly World, which requires the transformation of the soul, while the Christmas archetype carries the idea of the incarnation of God, and hence there is a need for this type of literature which refers to earthly change and earthly joy. Varlamov’s short story is distinguished by an appeal to the plot of the prodigal son, according to I. A. Esaulov, that is Easter-oriented at its core, with a three-part...

... devoted to the description of Moscow as a component of this poetic system, the establishment of a circle of motives associated with Moscow, and their role in the Galich plot building. According to the conclusions, the capital in the artistic world of the poet, as a rule, has a negative connotation. In the poetic subsystem of Moscow, the motives of departure and arrival are emphasized, and the metropolitan space is primarily associated with the departure (exile) of the hero, and arrival or static stay ...

Science fiction can be defined as the literature about cognizable unusual phenomena which represents hypothetical scientific, technical and social products of their rational exploration. Before the genre emerged, the subject of exploring the unusual was developed mainly in the field of mythological fiction, which became the basic element of Gothic literature. In Gothic, the features of science fiction began to form: in M. Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus”, the motives of the...

This research focuses on the linguistic and cultural specifics of the concept «unity in diversity» in P. B. Shelley’s poem “Love’s philosophy”. The study reflects the expert linguistic interest to the national cultural and individual author’s specificity in interpreting philosophical concepts in literature, which have a meaning-­forming function within the space-time continuum of literary works. The aim of this research is to study the linguistic and cultural specifics of the concept «unity in diversity»...

The poetry of Veniamin Blazhenny (the Blessed) can be seen as a vivid example of the translation of the typological properties of the language of mysticism in late 20th century poetry. The artistic nature of the work of the Blessed during this time did not receive a fundamental analysis. The soul, a key concept of Blazhenny’s poetry, reveals undoubted similarities with the conceptualization of the soul and the idea of metempsychosis in Jewish and Judeo-­Christian mysticism. This study focuses on...

The article traces the genre characteristics of the “musical” nocturne used by Kazuo Ishiguro in his prose “stories” (a range of themes related to the musical biography of the main character-musician, the distinctive musicality of landscape descriptions, genre specificity, the unique atmosphere inherent to the nocturne, etc.), which, on the one hand, allow them to be identified with similar musical compositions, and on the other hand, reveal the literary and artistic originality of the “musical story”...

... between different eras and national-cultural traditions, including ancient Greek, English, French, Russian, and Polish. A special place in the semantic structure of the essay is occupied by the epigraph — a poem by one of the most renowned Polish poets of the 20th century, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, dedicated to the great Königsberg native. This poetic paraphrase of Kant’s famous maxim from the conclusion of the Critique of Practical Reason associates the contemplation of the starry sky and the ...

The article addresses the issue of the creative reception of Mayakovsky’s poetry in the lyrics of the poet and bard Mikhail Ancharov (1923—1990). The poetic generation of Ancharov, which was formed in the 1930s and 1940s, was strongly influenced by the classic of Soviet literature. In Ancharov’s lyrics, the influence of Mayakovsky (especially his ...

This article aims to interpret the images of the red horse and the white poodle featured in Victor Sosnora’s poem The Latvian Ballad. These characters, mentioned in the final verses of each odd-numbered stanza, provide the leitmotif of the poem. Their appearance in the fictional world of The Latvian Ballad constitutes the primary event of the text. The title, indicating the genre and setting a national or local context, also significantly influences the meanings attributed to the red horse and the...

... three poems where this image is central. Analysing the image of the bee in the context of literary tradition and mythological connotations suggests that the bee is metaphorically related to the persona. This image embodies Pereleshin’s vision of the poet’s role and the nature of poetic work: the spiritual endeavours of a wordsmith should be accompanied by hard work, self-sacrifice and, ultimately, submission to the Higher Will. Valery Pereleshin, On the Way, Russian émigré literature, China,...

This article provides the first examination of the advertising efforts by the OBERIU avant-­garde collective, integrated into the leftist art paradigm of the first quarter of the 20th century. The study explores the pragmatic and semantic facets of OBERIU advertising, including its verbal and visual components as seen in placards, posters, and slogans. Advertising is presented as a speech act aimed at changing the viewer’s perception, using literary devices such as letter play, original slogans,...

The material of the late poems by G. Shpalikov, one of the prominent representatives of poetry during the Khrushchev Thaw era, is singled out and examined in terms of the sphere of key images and motifs in the poet’s artistic world, which are encoded by the ontological-tragic situation of the lyrical subject in the enclosed chronotope of society. The central motifs of Shpalikov’s work during this period have been identified: motifs of loneliness, rootlessness,...

The place occupied by Kant’s philosophical ideas in the reflections of the Russian philosopher, Nikolay Strakhov, needs further study. The material for a historical-philosophical reconstruction of Strakhov’s reception of Kant’s philosophy is the Russian thinker’s home library catalogue, his correspondence and his own philosophical works. Among Strakhov’s interlocutors were not only philosophers and natural scientists, but also writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Afanasy Fet, who...

The article aims to illustrate the inadequacy of viewing semiotics as a mere extension of linguistic methods applied to non-linguistic objects. It highlights the dual and recursive na­ture of semiotic terms. Semiotics' objects are not independent signs but rather the processes involved in establishing sign relations, specifically semiosis and semiopoiesis. Given the dy­namic character of semiosis, signs should not be regarded as fixed objects from a predefined vocabulary; instead, they should be...

I discuss the relation of linguistics and semiotics on the basis of the Old Russian discourse particle TI1 ‘indeed’, ‘verily’, ‘truly’ discovered by Andrej A. Zaliznjak in 1993. Linguistics and semiotics are different research programmes: the first one deals with specific features of language structures, while the second one discusses general characteristics of all sign systems, from a perspective of interpreting most or all of them as secondary respective to natural language. Formal models of language...

... Mutad, VI (1), pp. 1—14. Altman, M. S., 1995. Razgovory s Vyacheslavom Ivanovym [Conversations with Vya­cheslav Ivanov]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Andrews, W. G., 1976. An Introduction to Ottoman Poetry. Minneapolis. Aseev, N., 1951. Destiny of the poet. Novyi mir [A new world], 1, pp. 229—231 (in Russ.). Babaev, A. A., 1975. Nazym Khikmet. Zhizn' i tvorchestvo [Nâzım Hikmet. Life and works]. Moscow (in Russ.). Bagritskii, E., 1964. Stikhotvoreniya i poemy [Short and long poems]. Leningrad ...

The article is devoted to the controversy around the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Christ in the tomb" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to analyze the current trends in the interpretation of Holbein's painting and Dostoevsky's novel, in their relationship with Christian dogmatics, canonical requirements for depicting the image of Christ, the biblical context, and to establish existing and...

... Demyankov]. Moscow, pp. 180—191 (in Russ.). Kokh, I. E., 2010. Osnovy stsenicheskogo dvizheniya [The fundamentals of move­ment on stage]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Kolker, Ya. M. and Ustinova, E. S., 2021. The Affective Aspect of the “Poetics — Poet­ry — Translation” Paradigm. Inostrannye yazyki v vysshei shkole [Foreign Langua­ges in Tertiary Education], 2 (57), pp. 108—117, https://doi.org/10.37724/RSU.2021 . 57.2.010 (in Russ.). Krasnykh, V. V., 2001. Osnovy psikholingvistiki i teorii ...

We address the interaction of various interpretations of lexical items, which leads to a change in the correlation between signifieds and signifiers and the formation of new signs. Addressing the polysemic slogan ‘ОМОН-И-МЫ — АНТОНИМЫ’, we explicate the mechanism of semiotic Perpetuum mobile, that is, the cyclic recursions that allow simultane­ous actualization of various interpretations of this utterance. We demonstrate that the analy­sis of semantic relations in their dynamics requires the introduction...

The article explores the images of the German cities, Lubeck and Hamburg, 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...

The discussion aims to identify the interpretive mechanisms that provide an interface be­tween text and context (between language and the world, language and culture, language and society). It is a multi-level system of interfaces connected by inversion and recursion relations and operations. We identify this system as a pragmasemantics. It also acts as an interface platform for correlation/transformation of intra-system semantic units and extralinguistic objects within a set of possible worlds....

... new experimental forms. Western literature saw the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his philosophical treatise form on artistic practices, including poetry. Witt­genstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" left a significant imprint on poets associated with the ‘language school’ in the USA. Furthermore, Wittgenstein's treatise and its interpre­tation by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko continue to reverberate in contemporary Russophone poetry, particularly within the objectivist line. The ...

The article delves into the intricacies of integrating poetic texts into the discourse of au­thorial cinema. It begins by examining the multifaceted interaction between cinema and poet­ry within contemporary artistic culture, framing author cinematography through the lens of the poetic concept. Intermediality and interdiscursivity are explored as intrinsic properties of cinema, serving as tools for shaping the unique style and ...

The paper explores the perspectives of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Marx regarding hu­man freedom, highlighting their relevance amidst the contradictory landscape of social devel­opment in late capitalism. It is well-established that Dostoevsky's ‘orthodox’ socialist stance resonated with Marx's critique of bourgeois society, focusing on themes of materialism, the dominance of wealth, and alienation. Both thinkers grappled with the concept of human free­dom, recognizing it as an intrinsic characteristic...

The main purpose of this work is to explore the experience of confronting guilt ‘after Auschwitz’ in the creative dialogue between two significant poets of the twentieth century — Paul Celan and Johannes Bobrowski. Despite their importance, their works remain inade­quately studied, particularly in the context of the interaction between language and existence, or more precisely, poetic semiotics ...

... the Length of the Poetic Line, or Is It Possible to Forma­lize Corporeality in Poetry. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie [New Literary Review], 135 (5), pp. 28—36 (in Russ.). Azarova, N., 2019a. Novelty without creativity. Vozdukh: zhurnal poezii [Air: Poet­ry Magazine], 39, pp. 307—313 (in Russ.). Azarova, N. M., 2019b. Strategies of Novelty in the Poetic Language — System Changes. Trudy Instituta russkogo yazyka im. V. V. Vinogradova. Vyp. 19: Materialy mezh­dunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii ...

... communicative situation, which is especially relevant for books of poetry, whether in paper or electronic form. This article examines current practices of delivering poetic texts to readers through auditory perception. It focuses on contemporary French poets active between 1990 and 2022, representing three different groups and movements; in Russia, they are known only to a narrow circle of specialists. The study proposes a typology of in-situ and ex-situ strategies for delivering the sound of a poet's ...

There is a dearth of empirical literary studies devoted to digital literature, primarily due to the poor development of a methodological framework for analysing digital texts and a lack of clarity as regards the text/meaning-generating capacity of the new communication channel, the language of digital texts' literary meta-description and the limits of freedom in interpret­ing such volatile texts. This article attempts to answer these and other questions, providing a semiotic understanding of communication...

This article examines the image of 'flowers of evil' as an imago image — an imaginary image of a real object. The term 'imago' was first used in this sense by Carl Jung in 1912. The work proposes a novel approach to investigating the image of 'flowers of evil'. The com­pa­rative historical, analytical and psychoanalytic methods of text examination revealed that, in his novel À rebours, Huysmans espouses Baudelaire's celebrated image, representing it pri­marily as a notion of something bizarre, extraordinary...

... The “trekhdolny pauznik” in Pushkin’s works. In: S. P. Bob­rov, ed. Novoe o stikhoslozhenii A. S. Pushkina [New on the versification of A. S. Push­kin]. Moscow, pp. 7—14 (in Russ.). Bobrov, S. P., 1916. Zapiski stikhotvortsa [Notes of a poet]. Moscow (in Russ.). Brik, O. M. et al., 2012. O. M. Brik’s talk on new translations of Heine’s “Deutsch­land” and its discussion at the translators section of the Writers’ Union (1934). Philo­logica , 9 (21/23), pp. 280—333. Bryusov,...

... subdiscipline that developed later and whose program was first pro­posed in the works of Roman Jakobson and John Lotz. The article concludes with a formal analysis of the poetic legacy of Malishevskii, who was active not only as a theorist but also as a poet. His oeuvres in poetry are examined against the background of his views on metrics, which, in fact, are hardly applicable to the structures of his own poems, which are much more traditional than his theoretical frame. Abondolo, D., 2001. Hungarian: ...

... of regular three-syllable meters, variable anacrusa is not un­common, and there are isolated extensions. This repertoire is close both to the metrics of the younger Acmeists (especially Georgy Ivanov and Georgy Adamovich) and to the metrics of the poets of the Maximilian Voloshin circle (primarily Sofia Parnok). Gasparov, M. L., 1968. Russian dolnik with three ictuses in the 20th century. In: V. E. Kholshevnikov, ed. Teoriya stikha [Theory of verse]. Leningrad, pp. 59—106 (in Russ.). ...

The core idea of formalism is that literature is not merely a function of psychology or so­cial theory and cannot be explained using the tools of these sciences. One could say that poet­ics is almost the only philological subdiscipline that has managed to preserve the fundamental idea of formalism, explaining poetic facts in terms of poetics itself, rather than through eco­nomic, sociological, or psychological means. This is precisely ...

... Vertogradari nad lozami [Gardeners over the vines]. Moscow (in Russ.). Bobrov, S. P., 1915. Novoe o stikhoslozhenii A. S. Pushkina [New perspectives on the versification of A. S. Pushkin]. Moscow (in Russ.). Bobrov, S. P., 1916. Zapiski stikhotvortsa [A poet’s notes]. Moscow (in Russ.). Bobrov, S. P., 1925. The word section. In: Literaturnaya entsiklopediya: Slovar' litera­turnykh terminov [Literary Encyclopedia: Dictionary of Literary Terms]. Vol. 2. Mos­cow; Leningrad, pp. 831—835 (in Russ....

The article presents the findings of a study on the attitudes toward profanity among Muscovites born between 1962 and 2011, all from families with higher education backgrounds. The research explores how respondents understand the term ‘mat,’ their views on societal restrictions regarding profanity, self-assessed frequency of using profanities and purposes for it, as well as the evolution of the attitudes toward profanity over different life stages. The study is based on the analysis of 20 interviews...

The study aims to reveal politeness strategies used in natural interaction within a particular community group. The article analyses excerpts from audio recordings of conversations of teenage male friends. The chosen interactional approach relies on Goffman’s notion of face and Brown and Levinson’s model of linguistic politeness, ethnographic methods of collecting data, and conversation analysis. The case study continues the discussion of gender and age aspects of politeness realization and communication...

... International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 24(4), pp. 343-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2010.543349 . Babich, B., 2014. On Schrödinger and Nietzsche: Eternal Return and the Moment. In: C. K. Chapple, ed. 2014. Antonio T. de Nicolas: Poet of Eternal Return. Ahmedabad: Sriyogi Publications & Ntyalanda International, pp. 157-206. Babich, B., 2015. Nietzsche’s Antichrist: The Birth of Modern Science out of the Spirit of Religion. In: M. Enders and H. Zaborowski, eds., Jahrbuch für ...

... stikhe [Introduction to the Science of Russian Verse]. Issue 1. Tartu (in Russ.). Russkoe stikhoslozhenie XIX v.: Materialy po metrike i strofike russkikh poetov [Russian Versification of the 19th Century: Materials on the Metrics and Stanzas of Russian Poets], 1979. Moscow (in Russ.). Shapir, M. I., 2015. Universum versus: Yazyk — stikh — smysl v russkoi poezii XVIII—XX vekov [Universum versus: Language — verse — meaning in Russian poet­ry of the 18th—20th centuries]. Book 2. Moscow (in ...

This work is the result of methodological reflection related to the comprehension of more than two hundred years of experience accumulated since the secularization of linguistics, and the formation of a reasonable forecast regarding the near and medium-term development of linguistic science. The development of linguistics is determined by the dynamics of para­digms. In understanding the latter term, the author follows the tradition laid down by Kuhn, taking into account the nuances of its transfer...

‘Second-person narrative’ is defined by Richardson as one of the most significant narrative forms since the introduction of the stream of consciousness. And not by chance: it not only changes the reader's interaction with the narrative world, but also imposes its own re­quirements on contemporary narratology, it demands new language and a new way to describe it. ‘Second-person narrative’ problematizes the boundaries between narrator and nar­ra­tee, actual and virtual, subject and object. More than...

The article is devoted to the questions "Who am I? What am I?", which have been actively spreading in the Russian language since the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, both in poetry and prose. As a linguistic means of self-presentation and self-iden­tification, questions are used in situations that encourage a person to reflect on their place in so­ciety and their own rank feelings. The very fact of using the rhetorical questions "Who am I? What am I?" excludes...

The article provides a functional interpretation of explanation. It is based on the principles of Linguistic Pragmatics and Functional Linguistics. Explanation is analysed from two perspectives: as a communicative act and as a two-part discursive structure. The com­mu­nicative act of explanation is characterised by a perlocutionary goal of making the reader un­derstand the properties of an entity. This understanding focuses on the properties that are un­clear or not obvious to the reader. The perlocutionary...

The article examines the concept of the rhetorical question, which — quite surprisingly — is still not part of the standard and widely recognized inventory of linguistic categories, and the term ‘rhetorical question’ is rarely used in linguistic studies. At the same time, the ex­pres­sion ‘rhetorical question’ is actively employed in discourse, and, at first glance, seems to be used in a rather broad and undefined sense. The goal of this article is to distinguish between the­se two fields: linguistics...