Impossible ‘qui pro quo’: Fedor Dostoevsky and Zinaida Gippius (the short story “Ivan Ivanovich and the Devil”)
... his novel “The Brothers Karamazov”. Scholars have frequently noted the connection between Gippius's story and Dostoevsky’s novel. However, the presence of another link — the ‘qui pro quo principle’ — has yet to be explored in Gippius's text. The analysis demonstrates that the principle manifests through the symbolic pairing of the main characters and is closely tied to the theme of temptation. The use of the ‘qui pro quo’ principle in the story results in an inverted portrayal ...
The State Academy of Artistic Sciences versus Petrograd formalism: Verse theory. II. On Zhirmunsky’s “Rhyme, its history and theory”
... is explored. The theses of Kœnigsberg’s exposé are published for the first time, with notes. The aim of the article is to reveal the polemical layer in the works of Moscow formalists. This is achieved by identifying key positions in the analysed texts, by their historical commentary, mutual comparison, and the discovery of authors’ logic. The results of the research include the publication of archival materials and their interpretation in the context of internal formalistic polemics. New materials ...
The origins of metric typology: from ‘metrotonics’ to ‘tactometrics’
... the theory of verse considered these theories unverifiable, although a closer analysis of them allows us to show that they were precursors of modern metric typology. The present article explores Malishevskii’s theoretical views both in the context of theory of verse of the Russian 1920s and in the broader context of ‘tactometric’ theory, which before Malishevskii was represented primarily by the works of Aleksei Kubarev. It shows the development of ‘tactometric’ theory from Kubarev ...
Georgy Shengeli as a verse master and as a verse explorer
... examples of classical dolnik, derivatives of antique logaoedic verse, and rarer types of dolnik on disyllabic base. Shengeli’s corpus of tonic verse demonstrates an affinity for the classical and slightly loosened dolnik: most of his ‘leimic’ texts have lines 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 ...
Author-coined terminology in Russian verse theory: the formalist legacy
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Kant in Russian Police Law: Unknown Pages
Outside the view of historians of Russian philosophy there are still unpublished materials that can illuminate unknown aspects of the reception of Kant’s philosophy in Russia. One piece of such material, which is published in the appendix to this article, was found in the archive of B. V. Nikolsky, where it is titled “Article by S.V. on the Occasion of the Centenary of Immanuel Kant’s Death. 1904”. It is devoted to Kant’s philosophy of law, the origins of which are traced back to the French Revolution...
Plekhanov as “Defender” of Kant from Neo-Kantians
The history of the reception and interpretation of Neo-Kantian ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shows the special role played by those who took a negative stand with regard to Neo-Kantianism and sought to dissociate it from and oppose it to Kant’s legacy. A prominent place among the latter was occupied by Georgy V. Plekhanov, most of whose works were fiercely polemical. Highly rating Kant’s works, in which he even found some coincidences with materialism, Plekhanov for a...
Wanderings in Syllogistic Figures: On Kant’s Possible Cognitive Syllogistics
Kant’s treatise “The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures” has logical, epistemological, and cognitive-psychological implications. These three perspectives on his conclusions are practically undifferentiated. The first part of this article discusses the logical and ontological-gnoseological content of the treatise in order to reveal the prerequisites for the cognitive interpretation of syllogisms. The second part is an attempt to explicate the treatise’s cognitive content, i.e. a systemic...
Gustav Shpet’s Critique of Kant’s “History”
In his 1916 book, History as a Problem of Logic, Gustav Shpet undertakes the task of reconstructing the whole Kantian conception of history, previously scattered in various articles and minor works of the critical period. He builds the reconstruction around Kant’s Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective, with a focus on the a priori ‘thread’ in history and not empirical history. Shpet’s general assessment of Kant’s contribution to the development of historical science is sharply...
Kant’s Philosophy of Chemistry and Nietzsche’s Cosmology: On the Material Hermeneutics of Alchemy and Cinnabar. Part I
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“Everything has already happened!”: the first Russian translation of the poem by Paul Henry Gerber
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Paul Henry Gerber — physician, professor and poet from Königsberg
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On the question of the syllabic system of versification: the poetic practice of Theophan Prokopovich
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Conceptual foundations of manipulation
... the foundation of manipulative acts. The cognitive mechanisms of analogy, metaphorization, emotionalization, profiling, attribution, framing, scripting, and their numerous combinations form the basis of manipulation in modern English-language media texts. These processes are characterized by dynamism and polydomain interaction, making their identification and analysis even more complex. The dynamic nature of conceptual transfers is driven by the functioning of the experiencer's conceptual system,...
Prerequisites for the formation of Neostructuralism as an integral linguistic paradigm
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Verbalization of communicative strategies in foreign policy discourse: a case study of the Russian President’s addresses to the international audience
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You, you, you: second-person narrative in the “Invisible” by Paul Auster (2010)
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rhetorical question, question, answer, communicative act, speaker, interrogative sentence, Russian language
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Pragmatics of epistemic warrants of the real, the possible and the probable in discourse
... pragmatics and has great applied potential. The article examines the lines of demarcation between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, as well as research directions in the field of epistemic pragmatics, including the use of epistemic modalities in the text. Strategies and tactics of manipulative influence on the audience play a crucial role in the presentation of epistemic warrants — guarantees that shape the epistemic credit history of communicants and may sometimes result in epistemic default. ...
What is good: to the history of evaluative adjectives in the language of the early Soviet period
... is devoted to the semantic evolution of the evaluative adjectives ‘horoshii’ and ‘plohoi’ (‘good’ and ‘bad’) in the early Soviet language. Through the use of party documents, propaganda slogans, letters to the government and literary texts of the 1920—1930s, the article reveals how these words turned into universal markers reflecting conformity to new social and political standards. The first part of the article analyzes the role of the adjective ‘good’ as a universal rhetorical ...
"Athletes of faith, athletes of the stage...": linguistic and discursive analysis of the derivational family in Russian from the 18th to the early 20th centuries
This article delves into the dynamics of the semantic field surrounding the word ‘atlet’ (athlete) and its derivatives in the Russian language from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks of linguistic portraiture and discourse analysis, this study provides a comprehensive characterization of the phenomenon under investigation. Textual analysis reveals a transformation in the meaning of this loanword: evolving from denoting an ancient Greek ‘wrestler’ in the mid-18th...
Pragmatic obligatoriness revisited
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situation if its absence, where the situation calls for it, may lead to unintended implicatures. Pragmatically obligatory discourse markers may occasionally appear in translation even when no direct stimulus is present in the source text. Special attention is given to the use of proper names and the act of telling jokes. The article explores the pragmatic principle governingproper names through the concept of the mental dossier, arguing that the introduction of a name should be accompanied ...
The pragmatics of semiosis and linguisation
... semiotics. A similar need has emerged in contemporary linguistics: the need to distinguish between the expanded use of linguistic capacities for pragmatically motivated communication—or languaging—and the more narrowly defined traditional models of text and utterance construction based on normative lexicons and formal grammars. The article contains a sketch of the main approaches to the study of verbalisation and the formation of the corresponding scientific traditions.
word, λόγος, verbum,...
The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose)
... of the city and the theory of
representation (including Lefebvre), examining how material and symbolic
practices conflict, coexist and shape ‘place’ in the anthropological sense. The
article offers an interpretation of Yerevan as a living urban text, where each
renaming and protest action is a struggle for the right to meaning.
urban semiotics, Yerevan, spatial representation, protest movements, symbolic transformation, renaming, toponymy
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Velimir Khlebnikov’s poem “Vam”: context, intertext, ekphrasis
... analysis of the poem “To You”, but also on a broader contextual reading of Khlebnikov’s works, along with documentary sources such as letters from his relatives (father, mother, and sister). The findings make it possible to trace Khlebnikov’s text to its connections with both Russian and world literature and art.
Velimir Khlebnikov, Kuzmin, travel, diary, intertext, ekphrasis
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Cultural code of the city: the interrelation of verbal and visual texts
... are physical art installations, carriers of deep symbolic meaning within the cultural and semiotic field of urban space and represented in the visual cluster of the city’s cultural code. These sculptures were created based on or inspired by literary texts. Using examples of narrative sculptural compositions in Krasnodar (Monument to Catherine II, The Doggie Capital, The Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, among others) and in Gelendzhik (The White Bride), the study analyzes ...
The image of Ekaterinoslav as an unrealized potentiality in Russian travelogues of the late 18th — 19th centuries
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th
—19
th
centuries (texts by Ivan Ya. Akinfiev, Alexander S. Afanasyev, Pavel A. Bibikov, Ivan F. Vernet, Fyodor F. Vigel, Alexander F. Voeikov, Nikolai S. Vsevolozhsky, Karl I. Hablitz, Ivan M. Dolgoruky, Mikhail P. Zhdanov, Konstantin P. Zhukov, Vasily A. Zhukovsky, Iakov ...
Visual language of the city: a case study of the visual perception of third places (the case of Nizhny Novgorod)
The article is devoted to the study of the pragmatic aspects of visual communication in the modern urban environment. The physical objects of the city are interpreted as a text aimed at transmitting specific information to its residents. The research focuses both on the processes of meaning-making—based on the interaction of various semiotic resources such as colour, imagery, graphic design, texture, and verbal signs—and ...
Olfactory opposition of “one’s own — another’s” in the context of the war
The study is aimed at describing and interpreting smell as a sign of “one’s own” and “the other” in the context of war. The material for analysis consists of text fragments in Russian and German that contain references to olfactory processes; the factual material was extracted from works of fiction devoted to the events of the two world wars. The research vector was built taking into account that the semantic ...
Evaluative language in analytical reviews of the foreign exchange market: a comparative perspective from U.S. and U.K. media
... private evaluation and minimal presence of ethical evaluation. In U. S. reviews, the main means of objectifying evaluation are nouns, while in British analytics they are verbs. The leading role of the individual explicit subject of evaluation in the texts of the selected genre in both countries is identified. The objects of evaluation are monetary units, currency pairs, trends in their movement, political events, and the activities of players in the foreign exchange market.
Zakharova O.S....
The role of Jean Chapelain in the development of French literary theory and criticism in the first half of the XVIIth century
... on the formation of aesthetic taste, his mediation between the author and the audience, and the nature of the political engagement in literary creativity demanded by the time, as well as the relationship between the creator and power. Chapelain’s texts are examined in their entirety, allowing for the tracing of the development of guiding ideas and the deepening of fundamental concepts in his theorizing, such as “verisimilitude”, “taste”, “decorum”, “utility”, “morality”, “erudition”,...
Genre-composition metaphor of rhizome in the novel “Primeval and other Times” by Olga Tokarchuk
... nomadological theory of postmodernism as reflected in the writings of philosophers G. Deleuze and F. Guattari. The study investigates the concept of the “rhizome,” which in Tokarczuk’s work functions as a method of plot construction for her literary texts in general and the novel Primeval and
Other Times in particular. The metaphor of the rhizome is expressed in the novel not only through the image of a giant fungal network, a mycelium, but also through a distinctive worldview based on the interconnectedness ...
The Buddhist concept of “Consciousness-Only” in Victor Pelevin’s novel “Omon Ra”
... circular composition captures the protagonist’s endless journey within the cyclical movement of the illusory world of saṃsāra, while the open ending suggests the possibility of the hero’s liberation.
V. Pelevin, Buddhism, buddhist text, illusory, “Consciousness-Only”
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“Interrupted Flight” by V. Vysotsky: to the question of the title
... question of the existence of alternative titles in the song’s textual history, their origins and textual status, the source of the title “Prervannyi polet”, and the reasons for its eventual textual consolidation. The creative history of the text is traced based on surviving manuscripts, authorized typescripts, and materials from audio archives. The study reveals that at different stages in the song’s history, the author used various titles for it; a number of non-authorial titles are ...