“Interrupted Flight” by V. Vysotsky: to the question of the title
The canonical title of the song “Prervannyi polet” (“Interrupted Flight”) is not clearly established in Vysotsky’s handwritten or audio archives. This raises the question of the existence of alternative titles in the song’s textual history, their origins ...
The realization of the archetypal semantic opposition “the own — the alien” in M. Stepnova’s short story “Kaki Jam”
... identifies the key role of its opposing elements in the formation of the work’s content-conceptual and subtextual information. Based on a linguopoetic analysis of the markers of “one’s own” and “the alien” in the short story with the enigmatic title “Kaki Jam,” the article concludes that the conversion of “the alien” into “one’s own” is illusory and impossible when achieved at the cost of suppressing one’s own national and cultural identity and renouncing the natural “one’s ...
