Cultural code of the city: the interrelation of verbal and visual texts
... 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 liminal mechanism ...
Metafictional strategies in D. Kehlmann’s novel “Fame” and the peculiarities of their rendition in translation
... of translating metafiction, and the main metafictional strategies in D. Kehlmann’s novel “Fame”, along with the ways of rendering them into Russian and English. The principal metafictional strategies employed by D. Kehlmann include metaleptic narration and the introduction of metafictional and metanarrative commentary. Using contextual and comparative analysis of selected fragments from the novel “Fame”, the study finds that the Russian translation is more liberal and expressive than ...
