“Old hell transformed into a new purgatory”: the disturbing historical experience in the novel “The Haunted Hotel” by Wilkie Collins
... story’s ending, which explicitly declares the impossibility of uncovering the “secret of the hotel,” functions as a trigger for the allegorical interpretation developed in this article.
catastrophic writing, gothic elements in sensation literature, gothic fantasy, image of the past, oneiric representation, representative possibilities of reminiscence, repressed historical experience, Victorian fiction
114-131
10.5922/2225-5346-2026-1-8
Mandelstam’s camp poem: an attempt at reconstruction
... orality is inscribed in the text itself. Considered within its full context, Mandelstam’s last poem allows us to relate his poetics to the modernist project of synchronisation of history.
ancient versification, hexameter, Mandelstam, oral literature, poetics
88-97
10.5922/2225-5346-2026-1-6
Three stages of publication and perception of A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s artistic works in China
... attention from readers and researchers. Their interest in the literary works of the writer has not disappeared for 42 years. Writer Solzhenitsyn is a more attractive figure in Chinese research works.
Solzhenitsyn, translation, publicism, Russian literature, Chinese Russian studies
61-70
10.5922/pikbfu-2023-1-6
