The plot of Melusine in Russian literature of the XVII— XIX centuries (translations and interpretations)
The article highlights the reception in Russian literature of one of the most popular
Western European plots — the story of Melusine. The aim of the study is to examine the attempts to appropriate this plot in Russia from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The story of Melusine formed the basis of ...
The role of Jean Chapelain in the development of French literary theory and criticism in the first half of the XVIIth century
... is to present the multifaceted figure of Jean Chapelain as the foremost French critic and literary theorist of the first half of the 17th century. Significant attention is given to Chapelain’s connection with his time, during which the function of literature and the position of the writer were evolving, as well as his substantial contribution to the establishment and consolidation of classicist aesthetics on a national level. The article addresses the critic’s role in the development of literature,...
Semantics of the image of the bee in Valery Pereleshin’s lyrics: the book of poems On the Way
The ‘eastern branch’ of Russian émigré literature has received less scholarly attention than the works of authors who headed for the West in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, making the position of the former within 20th-century Russian poetry a relevant research question. Valery Pereleshin ...
