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Nikolai Kononov first published his story ‘Ceylon Island’ under the pen-name Alexander Chekhov (the name of Anton Chekov’s brother). This article explores the author’s literary mystification strategy as an element central to the poetic nature of ‘Ceylon Island’, its intertextuality, and its stylistic ‘set­tings’. The receptive nature of the text of Kononov’s story and the logic behind the creation of the author’s mask are considered. The structural sources of the ...

Having analyzed fifty-seven letters of the Polish poet Wladyslaw Broniewski and seven letters of Irena Gelman, the author explores the historical and cultural context as well as the poetic vision of the correspondents. Additionally, these letters bear testimony to their romatic feeling. The authors of the letters knew and appreciated Russian literature, which was one of the subject matters in their letters, and valued both classical ...

The article states that a short story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940) by Jorge Luis Borges is the pretext of Nikolay Kononv’s novel “Parade” (2015). The author shows, how Kononov reproduces and, at the same time, develops the main themes from Borges’ story, resorting to geographical and anagrammatic codes, the principle of metaphorical reflection and a play upon words. The researcher interprets the hidden codes in the novel “Parade”, deciphers the names of characters, reveals allusions to the...

.... и доп. О. Н. Трубачева. М., 1987. Т. 4. Языкознание. Большой энциклопедический словарь. 2-е изд. / под ред. В. Н. Ярцева. М., 1998. Blockley M. E. Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax: Where Clauses Begin. Champaign, 2001. Bosworth J. Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels in Parallel Columns with the Versions of Wycliff and Tyndale. L., 1888. URL: https://archive.org/stream/gothicandang los00ulfigoog#page/n8/mode/2up (дата ...

... a holistic perception of a structurally complex unit. The main results of the study include the following. Firstly, the the authors established the ty­pology of the word: the Word of God, the Lost Word, the Master’s Word, the Mason’s Word, the Poetic Word Secondly, the functions of the Word were de­termined: identifying, conspiratorial, magical, creative, enlightening. Thirdly, it was stated that the Word in the perception of the Freemasons became an ideal, an object and a tool. At the same ...

1. Агата Кристи : официальный сайт [группы]. URL: http://agata.rip/ (дата обращения: 03.09.2017). 2. Альтернатива: опыт антологии рок-поэзии. М., 1991. 3. Акопян Л. Музыка ХХ века : энцикл. словарь. М., 2010. 4. Бахтин М. М. Творчество Франсуа Рабле и народная культура средневековья и Ренессанса. М., 1990. 5. Башлачев А. Стихи. СПб., 1997. 6. Востокова Е. С. Специфика интертекстуальности рок-текста (на примере творчества Егора Летова) : выпускная квалификационная работа … бакалавра филологии. СПб...

The article establishes the boundaries of the musical analogy in the comments of H. Broch to the novel «Death of Virgil». In the novel, musicality is associated with the motives of ‘voice’ and ‘hearing’. Noting the propensity to onomatopoeia in the work of J. Joyce, H. Broch aims to depict the music of human speech. By doing so, he follows the prevailing tendencies in the music art of the beginning of the 20th century, reviving interest in vocal genres (cantata, oratorios). 1. Broch H. Der Tod des...

... “Things Are Not What They Seem” brings together an ensemble of inserted structures, changing the prism of the axiological system, the plot and the meaning of the novel. It creates a wide variability of axiological senses, and the changable axiological poetics of the novel. 1. Байет А. С. Ангелы и насекомые. М., 2000. 2. Бейтс Г. У. Натуралист на Амазонке. М., 1958. 3. Виноградова Ю. Между небом и землей // Иностранная ...

The author explores the relationship of the notions ‘collective memory’ and ‘cultural memory. Anthroponyms represented in the brothers Grimm’s sagas are analysed as exponents of cultural memory. The main focus is on the functions of anthroponyms in the semantic structure of the sagas texts. 1. Алефиренко Н. Ф., Голованёва М. А., Озерова Е. Г., Чумак-Жунь И. И. Текст и дискурс : учеб. пособие для магистрантов. М., 2012. 2. Бондарева Л. М. Типологические признаки ретроспективного дискурса как гетерогенного...

... form two opposite groups, those of good and evil, light and darkness, and truth and falsehood. P.Shelley’s negative characters are a reflection of the poet’s views on reality and the sociopolitical situation in the country. The mythological and poetic image of the Earth is one of the central in the poem; the Earth calls for the people of England to regain their freedom. The authors reveal a special function of the Shape as a combination of natural and mystical phenomena, opposing evil. 1. Вовк ...

... conception lies in A. S. Byatt’s reflections on the origins of creative energy and their connection with the processes taking place on the border of the real merging with the imaginary, Otherworldly. The author shows the role and organization of these poetical paradigms in the text, the center of which is the idea of Destiny. It is reflected not only in the plot twists and turns, but also in the formation of characters, the creation of the book composition, as well as in numerous intertexts. 1. Байетт ...

The author analyses the specific features of B. Ryzhy’s poetry, showing that G. Ivanov’s works influenced his poetic manner. The author reveals the reasons of commonality of their existentialistic worldview, which was predetermined by some biographic and sociocultural factors. Reinterpreting G. Ivanov’s key motifs and imagery, B. Ryzhy enriches his lyrics by ...

The author examines the poetic specificity of depicting Drohobych and Prague using the novels «Cinnamon shops» and «The Hourglass Sanatorium » by Bruno Schulz and the novel «The Trial» by F.Kafka as an example. It is alleged that an insurmountable boundary between nature ...

... songwriters, i. e. lyrics of bard songs and rock poetry, from the point of view of their plot and their place in the typology of texts. The author identifies a discrepancy between the principles of building the plot of songs and the methods of creating the poetic model of the world in the central and peripheral areas of this type of songs. This internal asymmetry of the analysed context is associated with the borderline position of the songs in literature. 1. Блатной фольклор : [сайт]....

... 'holi-day' concept for the structural unity of the poem. In the atemporal dimension of a ‘holiday,’ visible images of the natural world become symbolic representa-tions of the invisible. In the English translation, the overt concreteness of some of the poetic images results in the partial loss of the text's axiological po-tential. 1. Бахтин М. М. Формы времени и хронотопа в романе // Бахтин М. М. Эпос и роман. СПб., 2000. С. 9—193. 2. Бердяев ...

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the novel of the Polish émigré author Erzy Kosiński written in the English language. The image of the main character is considered in the typological comparison with the prece-dent images of world literature; the plot and composition structure is de-scribed; the genre is identified. Using the analysis of the novel’s key episodes, the article stresses the meaning-creating function of the reflection technique. The receptive field of the novel is identified...

... ‘ironic’ and thus put on a par with works following Friedrich Schlegel’s tradition of Romanticism. It would be more accurate to speak of ‘humour’ in the context of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of pessimism characteristic of the 19th century poetic realism. The central element is not nurturing ennui resulting from awareness of the con-trast between the ideal and reality, but rather cheerful disposition (consola-tion) in the face of reality. Kehlmann’s world-famous novel Measuring the World ...

... M. Lotman’s concept of polyglotism and M. M. Bakhtin’s and R. Bar-thes’s text theories. A specific feature of D. Lodge’s novel is the visuality of the world of literary images created using special literary techniques. The novel’s picture poetics emphasises picturesqueness as a generalising feature. The poetic role of the intermedial techniques – portrait and self-portrait, semiotics-enriched landscape, and genre episode – is identified in the visual ima-gery of the novel. 1. Барт....

... of subjectivity underwent serious changes, which contributed to the increasing diversity and synthesis of means to create a literary reality. Daniel Kehlmann’s novel I and Kaminski (2003) is analysed from this perspective. Its text is compared with poetic works of German authors, which makes it possible to identify similarities and understand the general trends in modern culture 1. Кондратьев К. В. Кризис идеи и феномена субъекта в пространстве ...

... characters and the narrator. The duality, amalgamation of reality and fiction, reciprocity, and the inclusion of the reader into the process of textual modeling through cross-references and intertextual connections constitute the basis of Daniel Kehlmann’s poetics. 1. Борхес X. Л. Скрытая магия в «Дон Кихоте» // Борхес X. Л. Собр. соч. : в 4 т. СПб., 2011. Т. 2. С. 366—369. 2. Женетт Ж. Работы по поэтике. Фигуры. М., 1998....

This article presents an interdisciplinary study on text linguistics, lingu-o¬poetics, and narratology. It addresses the problems of modern science fiction discourse and analyses the ideas of the leading theorists of postmodernism — J.-F. Lyotard and J. Derrida — as well as those of scholars focusing on the sci-ence fiction ...

This article compares the poetics of two works by Hesse and Frisch brought together by a similar topic and complex of motives up to identical plot elements. It is shown that the problem of self-identification is solved differently by two writers: Hesse’s solution lies in Klein’s ...

... correlation between N. Kononov’s short story and the literary pretexts. The authors stresses the connection between N. Kononov’s citation writing and the postmodernism worldview and literary strategies of postmodernism. The short story’s intertextual poetics is determined by the patterns of the author’s literary world. The identifies the structural and functional features of intertext in the “Tripartite Sibling” short story, as well as its role in the poetic whole of the work. 1. Кононов ...

... novel is considered in the context of a change of eras in European and German art. The results of the study is the identification of the aesthetic characteristics of the writer’s prose that exhibits the features of both modernist and postmodernist poetics reflecting the general historical and literary pattern that has become the focus of current discussions. 1. Гладилин Н. В. Становление и актуальное состояние постмодернизма в странах ...

... a Russian author of the Pushkin era A. Podolinsi is characterised in comparison with the context of Russian Romanti-cism and the conceptual constants of Russian cultural consciousness. The au-thor identifies the function of the image of house in the poetic body of the poem. The ‘house’ is analysed as an element of the literary space and as a topos with symbolical and mythological connotations. 1. Афанасьева Н. Е., Плотникова А. А. Гроб // Славянские древности: ...

The body is considered as a spatial structure that serves in M. Tsvetaeva’s poetics as a form of spatial “exploration” of the world. The authors describe the functioning of the body image as a model juxtaposed with the structure of universe, on the one hand, and the being of the poet, on the other. The article explores the ...

... Шанский Н. М., Иванов В. В., Шанская Т. В. Краткий этимологический словарь русского языка : пособие для учителя. М., 1971. 11. Byron G. G. N. Cain // Lord Byron. The poetical works of Lord Byron: with copious illustrative notes, and a memoir of his life. Philadelphia, 1876. Reprint edition. P. 450—471.

The space of heaven in the poetic world of M. Tsvetaeva is considered as a hierarchically and semantically complex space structure. The author identifies the specific features of the heaven spacium levels and describes the three main tiers of heaven, namely, the entry to heaven,...

This article focuses on the interpretation of occasionalisms motivated by proper names through references to background knowledge, and cultural and historical context as presented in the poetical works of 20th century poets (V. Khlebnikov, V. Mayakovsky, etc.). The author addresses the problem of the lexicographical description of these lexical units. 1. Барковская Н. Стихотворение Велимира Хлебникова ...

... Kononov Z/K or Vivisection. The book proceedings. The author analyses the issues of possibility/ impossibility of a constructive dialogue between a critic and a poet, the cognoscibility/incognoscibility of poetry, the interpretation and understanding of poetic texts, etc. 1. Золотоносов М., Кононов Н. З/К, или Вивисекция. Книга протоколов. СПб., 2002.

This article deals with the 'time' concept in Boris Pasternak's poem “Sparrow Hills” and its English translation by Eugene M. Kayden. The focus is placed on implicitness as a basic feature of the semantic structure of a poetic text. The poem's main image – Pentecost (“Whitsun”) – proves to be a manifestation of eternity in the realm of time. In the English translation, this broad temporal context is lost. 1. Алефиренко Н. Ф. Событийная ...

... described the structure forming function of biblical motifs in the plot relating to the spiritual struggle between the good and the evil for the soul of the persona. The author identifies the role of intertextual connection in the formation of the image of poetic I. 1. Гиржева Г. Н. Поэтика лирики Б. Пастернака (лингвистический аспект) :Автореф. дис … канд. филол. наук. М., 1991. 2. Гладков А. К. Встречи ...

This article focuses on the influence of rhetorical tradition on the development of categorical framework of Russian Formalism. The author proves that formalism borrows the idea of the poetical from the “deviation” from rhetorical theories. 1. Аверинцев С. С. Античная риторика и судьбы античного рационализма //Аверинцев С. С. Образ античности. СПб....

This article compares the theoretical treatises of representatives of Russian avant-gardism of the 1910s with the ideas of Yu. Tynyanov and R. Yakobson. The author shows the conceptual unity of metaliterature search of avant-gardists and formalists. 1. Гин Я. И. О «поэтической филологии» // Гин Я. И. Проблемы поэтики грамматических категорий: Избр. работы. СПб., 1996. 2. Гринцер Н. П., Гринцер П. А. Становление литературной теории в Древней Греции и Индии. М., 2000. 3. Крученых А...

This article presents the key results of an analysis of time concepts in poetic cycles of R.M. Rilke and B. Pasternak. The author emphasises the isomorphism of evolution of ideas of time in the late works of the poets. 1. Бушман И. Н. Пастернак и Рильке (Из работы на тему «Немецкая ...

The female character is one of the central constants forming the poetic world of a German rock author. This article examines the variants of this character. 1.  Андреев Ю.   В . «Минойский матриархат»: Социальные роли мужчины и женщины в общественной ...

The article deals with the results of an experiment on modelling the reader's perception of infinitive writing modal semantics. The author argues that the reader's interpretation of infinitive writing bases on connotation semantics of a poetic text rather than on the 'grammar of poetry'. 1.  Жолковский А. Бродский и инфинитивное письмо (Заметки к теме) // Новое литературное обозрение. 2000. №   45. С....

The poetics of the image of space in M. Tsvetaeva's cycle "Table" is considered in the context of her fictional world image. The author traces the spatial-poetical representation of the topic of poetry in the cycle. 1.  Цветаева М.   ...

This article considers the space as a means of the trans(de)formation of the material structure of the text in the analytical poetics of Russian avant-gardism. The author claims that, in Russian avant-gardism, the space acquires the function of a semantic operator. 1.  Бурлюк   Д., Бурлюк   Н. Стихотворения. СПб., 2002. 2.  Гнедов   ...

This article considers the role of the late prose of V. Katayev in the formation of V. Vysotsky's poetics. The author emphasises the influence of Vysotsky's theatrical works on his interpretation of Katayev's pretext. 1.  Высоцкий В.   С . Сочинения: в 2 т. 9-е изд., испр. Екатеринбург, 1997. 2.  Мандельштам ...

The notions of “animalism” and “bestiary” are distinguished on the basis of Russian prose of the 20th/21st centuries. The author analyses the poetic functions of bestiary motifs in Russian postmodernist literature (A. Korolyov, V. Pelevin, V. Sorokin). 1.  Бабенко Н.   Г . Лингвопоэтика русской литературы эпохи постмодерна. СПб.,...

This article asserts that Russian avant-gardism translated the antirhetorical in the rhetorical having codified “error” as a poetic device. This phenomenon is considered in the framework of A. Kruchenykh’s theory of shift. 1.  Гаспаров М.   Л. Античная риторика как система // Гаспаров М.   Л . Об ан­тичной поэзии: ...

This article considers the problems of language and word reflection in the works of the two poets and examines the mechanisms of written works. The authors attempt to interpret the complex of M. Tsvetaeva and J. Brodsky’s themes and motifs in the context of Barthes’s “rustle of language” concept. 1.  Цветаева М . Собр. соч.: в 7 т. М., 1994. 2.  Бродский И . Сочинения Иосифа Бродского: в 7 т. СПб., 2001. 3.  Бродский И . Книга интервью. М., 2007. 4.  Фарино Е . Введение в литературоведение. СПб...

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This article considers the structural and semantic features of the M. Yu. Lermontov's poetic syntax and determines the role of mononuclear sentences in the formation of the general sense of the poem. 1.  Бабайцева В.   В ., Максимов Л.   Ю . Синтаксис. Пунктуация. М., 1981. 2. Валгина Н....

This article considers phonetic, lexical, grammatical, syntactical and stylistic poetic neologisms relevant to the language of contemporary poetry from the functional-semantic aspect. 1.  Бобышев Д. Ангелы и силы. N .   Y ., 1997. 2.  Вознесенский А. Треугольная груша. М.,...

Almost all recent historical and literary studies agree that the Livonian Chronicle conveys an impression of a poetical work containing archaic elements. The affinity between the Chronicle and German heroic epic poetry is often stressed. The established perspective, which distorts the image of the Chronicle, requires adjustment. This literary study into the Chronicle’s ...

This article discusses the functions of anagrams in the philosophical discourse in terms of their general cultural functioning. Thus the study is brought to a more general level, which makes it possible to identify the cognitive mechanisms of anagrams. General conclusions about the functioning of anagrams in the philosophical discourse are made. The author stresses the originality of their structuring (text forming) function, the expansion of discursive semantics created by them and its orientation...

... support of the ruling house of the Electorate of Branderburg and Prussia, Dach managed to obtain the position of a professor of poetry at the university, with which both his work and life are closely connected. One of Dach’s university works is the poetic composition “Prussiarchus” dedicated to the centenary of Albertina (1644). This work is a poetical-allegorical depiction and interpretation of the history of the Prussian land in the time of duke Albrecht, the founder of the university. 1....