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After 1900, literary manifestations 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 ново-временного...

This article studies the cross-disciplinary interactions – a characteristic feature of modern literature – in the case of the novel Nice Work by a famous contemporary author and literary scholar David Lodge. The analysis is based on Yu. 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...

This article focuses upon the features of constructing and re-constructing a literary text in the case of Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Fame (2009). Using various narrative strategies, Daniel Kehlmann manages to create a multilayered fictional space based on meta-narration and self-reflection of the 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...

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 discourse — T. Todorov and R. Lachmann. The practical material of the study is the works of the modern French postmodernist author Bernard Werber. 1. Иеронова И. Ю. Семиотическое...

Based on a comparison of translations of B. Pasternak’s poem “February”, the author raises the question as to the possibility of preserving the grammar strategies of the original in translation and the degree of stability of “poetry grammar” as a meaning generating mechanism. 1. Гин Я. И. К вопросу о построении поэтики грамматических категорий //Гин Я. И. Проблемы поэтики грамматических категорий : избр. работы. СПб.,1996. С. 75—86. 2. Жолковский А. К. Бродский и инфинитивное письмо (Заметки к...

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 «Усадьба ночью,...

This article deals with the ways of the strategies of defining recipient’s emotional status explication in the modern German poetry discourse. Especially we are concentrating on lexical tools of the tactics of appeal to happiness and tactics of appeal to regret. The examples of implementation of the strategy of defining recipient’s emotional status are poems, which are devoted to consideration of concept LOVE. 1. Борисова И. Н. Русский разговорный диалог: структура и динамика. Екатеринбург, 2001...

V. Vysotsky’s poetry is typologically close to the principles of the “rough style” Soviet painting of the 1960s. The author outlines the promising areas of comparative analysis and addresses the issue of typological similarities between different texts within the field of a common cultural and historical situation of the Khrushchev era. 1. Бобриков А. Суровый стиль: мобилизация и культурная революция // Художественный журнал. 2003. № 51/52 : [сайт]. URL: http://xz.gif.ru/numbers/51-52/surovo (дата...

This article considers Byron’s work based on the well-known Biblical story, which was radically transformed by the poet. An analysis of one of the key categories of Romanticism – central to Byron’s oeuvre – helps show that the fictional conflict of the drama manifested in the images of Adam’s sons is based on the antithesis between the true and false freedom,...

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 синергетика имплицитности текста в лингвопоэтическом освещении...

This article considers the features of the manifestation of B. Pasternak’s mythologism in his early cycle “Romanovka” (included in the book My Sister, Life). The author emphasises the Christian nature of the poet’s interpretation of the war and revolution period of 1917. Special attention is paid to the means of the implementation of the author’s idea of the Fall, punishment, and atonement in Russia at that historical moment. The article stresses the ...

This article 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 с Пастернаком. Париж, 1973. 3. Жолковский А. К. О заглавном тропе книги...

The poetry and plays of A.S. Pushkin serve as the material for identifying the lexical–semantic paradigm of means of explicating the idea of the beautiful in its external and eternal manifestations. 1. Алимпиева Р. В. Лексема прекрасный в эстетической системе А. С. Пушкина и ее этнокультурный аспект // Актуальные проблемы лингвистической семантики : сб. науч. тр. Калининград, 1998. С. 3—10. 2. Арутюнова Н. Д. Истина. Добро. Красота: Взаимодействие концептов //Логический анализ языка: Языки...

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., 2004. 2. Аверинцев С. С. Христианский аристотелизм как внутренняя форма западной традиции и проблемы современной России // Аверинцев С. С. Риторика...

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 analyzes the genre paradigm of Hesse's Kurgast in the framework of the writer’s avant-garde technique of narration, including the autobiographical narrator, who is differentiated in the text into the observing agent (narrating I) and the observed object (narrated I). 1. Гессе Г. Курортник // Собр. соч. : в 4 т. СПб., 1994. Т. 2. 2. Hesse H. Kurgast // Библиотека зарубежной литературы : [сайт]. URL:http://www.booksbooksbooks.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=728:-20-&catid=2:deutsch&Itemid=4...

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 поэзия и творчество Пастернака») // Сборник статей, посвященных творчеству ...

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 жизни минойского Крита // Вестник Древней исто­рии. 1992. №   2. 2.  Бедненко Г.   Б . Греческие богини: Архетипы женственности. М.: Класс, 2005. 3.  Эстес К.   П . Бегущая с волками. Женский архетип в мифах и сказаниях. Киев: София, 2000...

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. 187—198. 2.  Жолковский А.   К. Инфинитивное письмо и анализ текста: «Леиклос»...

The article considers the interrelated images of the 'fruit' and the 'mirror' in poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak in the context of their artistic worldviews. The author compares the function of both images in the oeuvre of the poets. 1.  Баевский В.   С. Музыкальный подтекст стихотворного текста: Б. Пас­тер­нак. «Баллада» («Бывает, курьером на борзом…») // Учебный ...

The article examines the means of expressing impersonality meanings in the works of contemporary Russian, Polish and Bulgarian poets. The author determines typological characteristics defining correlations between the lexical and semantic and functional grammatical categories of linguistic units in contextualised expression of impersonality. 1.  Андреев А . Пътьом: ...

The article analyses the textual function of tolerance zones of particular modal meanings in Anna Akhmatova's poetry. The author pays special attention to the zones involved in the development of the author's verbal image, determines the explications of the zones describes and their interrelations. 1.  Бабенко Л.   Г., Васильев И.   Е., Казарин Ю.   Б. Лингвистический анализ худо­жественного текста. Екатеринбург, 2000. 2.  Бенвенист Э. Общая лингвистика. М., 1974. 3.  Ваулина С.   С. Языковая...

The article examines the most typical for Middle English metaphorical and metonymic shifts of meaning which represent figurative part of time concept. It is proved that the most frequent shifts are: time — event or state, time — traveler or moving object, space — time, time — master, time — system of measurement, time — grammatical category. 1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Метафора и дискурс // Теория метафоры. М., 1990. С. 5—33. 2. Белозерова Л. В. Пространственные прилагательные и метафора // Метафоры...

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.   С . Синтаксис современного русского языка. М., 1973. 3.  Вежбицкая А . Язык. Культура. Познание. М., 1996. 4. Виноградов В.   В . О языке художественной прозы // Виноградов В.   В. Из­бранные труды М., 1980...

... of the Ocean is considered as central for M. V. Lomonosov's ode Morning Meditation on the Greatness of God. The author emphasises the originality of the structure of this image and determines its role and conceptual meaning in the world image of the poet. 1.  Гуковский Г.   А . Русская поэзия XVIII века. Л., 1927. 2.  Ломоносов М.   В . Сочинения. М.; Л., 1961. 3.  Тресиддер Дж . Словарь символов. М., 1999. 4....

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.   И. Собрание сочинений: в 7 т. М., 1994. Т. 2. 2.  Лотман Ю.   М. Семиосфера. СПб., 2000.

This article analyses V. A. Zhukovsky’s images of ideal space in the context of Christian notions of paradise. 1.  Христианство: энциклопедический словарь: в 3 т. М., 1995. 2.  Христианство: словарь. М., 1994. 3.  Жуковский В.   А . Соч.: в 3 т. М., 1980. Т. 1. 4.  Даль В.   И . Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка: в 4 т. М., 2001. 5.  Рядчикова Е.   Н ., Скворцова И.   А . Субъективация и психологизм цветообо­значений в языке поэзии // Языковая структура и социальная среда: межвуз. сб...

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   В. Собр. соч.   / под ред. Н. Харджиева, М. Марцадури. Тренто, 1992. 3.  Зданевич И. лидантЮ фАрам. Париж, 1923. 4.  Крученых А. Сдвигология русского стиха: Трахтат...

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., 2007. 2.  Королев А. Сгинь, коса! // Журнальный зал: [сайт]. URL : http :// magazines . russ . ru / znamia /2008/5/ ko 2. html (дата обращения: 17.06.2011). 3.  Леонов...

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 О.   Э . Полное собрание стихотворений. СПб., 1997. 3.  Кулагин А.   В . Поэзия В.   С. Высоцкого: Творческая эволюция. М., 1997. 4.  Капрусова М.   Н . Влияние профессии актера на мироощущение...

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: Поэты. Поэтика. Риторика. СПб., 2000. 2.  Крученых А. 500 новых острот и каламбуров Пушкина. М., 1924. 3.  Крученых А. Заумный язык у: Сейфуллиной, Вс. Иванова, Леонова, Бабе­ля, И. Сельвинского...

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....

The article focuses on the representation of the concept «family» in English poetry for children. Particular attention is paid to the national and cultural component of the concept under study. 1.  Виноградов Г.   С. Страна детей. СПб., 1998. 2.  Краткий словарь когнитивных терминов / под ред. Е.   С. Кубряковой. М., 1996. 3.  Кустова Л.   С. Тайна национального характера. М., 2003. 4.  Любарт М.   К. Семья во французском обществе: XVIII — начало XX века. СПб., 2005. 5.  Маслова В.  ...

On the basis of S. Yesenin’s poetry, the authors consider the text function of linguistic units expressing the modal meaning of necessity. The article offers their functional and semantic hierarchy and describes their role in analysing the poet’s axiological world view. Список сокращений   МАС — Словарь русского языка: в 4 т. / АН СССР, Ин-т рус. яз.; под ред. А.   П. Евгеньевой. М., 1981—1984. 1. Бабенко ...

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., 1962. 3.  Гаспаров   Б.   М. Язык, память, образ. Лингвистика языкового существова­ния. М., 1996. 4.  Даль В.   И. Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка: в 4 т. М., 1978—1980. 5.  Зельченко В. Войско. СПб.,...

This article considers the features of literary and interpretative analysis of the dramaturgy of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and punishment by the Polish philosopher Józef Tischner. 1.  Достоевский Ф.   М. Собр. соч.: в 15 т. Л., 1989. Т . 5. 2.  Bonowicz W. Posłowie // Tischner J. Myślenie w żywiole piękna . Kraków, 2004. 3.  Krajewska A. Dramatyczna teoria literatury . Poznań, 2009. 4.  Raźny A. Fiodor Dostojewski. Filozofia człowieka a problemy poetyki. Kra­ków, 1988. 5.  Tischner...

... anti-Napoleonic campaign of 1805—1806, the Patriotic war of 1812, and the for­eign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813—1815. An officer of the Ap­sheron infantry regiment, he began as an ensign and ended his military ca­reer as a Colonel, a writer and poet, a chronicler of three wars, editor of the first «Military magazine» and organizer of the military library, a Decembrist and philanthropist. This is not a complete «service record» of Glinka before the December uprising of 1825. M. A. Miloradovich ...

This article focuses on reviews published in the “Istoricheskij Vestnik” at the beginning of 20th century. The reviews of this journal performed some functions unusual for a journal — the didactic, educational etc. The study compared the critique in the “Istoricheskij Vestnik” with other scholarly historical journals. 1. Б-я. [Рецензия] // Исторический вестник. 1916. Т. 143, № 1. С. 281—282. Рец. на кн.: Материалы для Гангутской операции. Вып. 1—3. Пг., 1914—1915. 1293 с. 2. Бочков Д. [Рецензия]...

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 text complements research on the development of corporate identity in the Teutonic Order. 1. Arnold U. De primordiis ordinis Theutonici...

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...

This article considers the literary career of the famous East Prussian poet Simon Dach in connection with the history of Koenigsberg University. With the 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 ...

The article analyses the reference of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s to Berdyaev’s philosophy of history and the interpretation and reinterpretation of “The New Middle Ages”. The author defines the differences and similarities of the apocalyptic thinking of the Russian philosopher and the Polish writer. 1.  Бердяев Н.   А. Духи русской революции // Вехи. Из глубины. М., 1991. 2.  Бердяев Н.   А. Новое средневековье // Философия творчества, культуры и искусства: в 2 т. М., 1994. Т. 1. 3.  Приходько...

This article considers the trends of Russian conservative thought in the Soviet Russia and abroad. The subject of research is the orthodox monarchism of leading Russian thinkers and poets in the USSR and abroad in the 1920s-1950s. 1.  Булгаков С.   Н. Церковь и демократия // Библиотека думающего о России. URL : http :// www . patriotica . ru 2.  Волошин М. Россия ...