Criminal songs: The hero and the plot
The criminal song is considered as a phenomenon of urban folklore functionally linked to the criminal community as an archaic subculture. The author characterises the plot structure of the criminal song: the system-building characters, their plot function, and typical motives. The article poses the question as to the thematic typology of the criminal song. It is emphasised that the bearer of ...
“Interrupted Flight” by V. Vysotsky: to the question of the title
... 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 also documented, including translated titles in French. Some of these externally assigned titles were supported by Vysotsky himself, who used them to refer to the song during public ...
The Late Poetry of A. Bashlachev: Changes in Performance and New Meanings
... components set a framework for a correlation analysis of variations in A. Bashlachev’s texts. The authors compare Bashlachev’s late written texts and their performed variants. The authors identify deviations from the written texts — syntactically unmotivated pauses, pause reductions, onomatopoeia, pronunciation ... ... dramatic to emphasise the tragedy of the Poet.
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2. Gavrikov, V. A., 2010. Song poetry as polysubtextual formation. Vestnik Leningradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta im. A. S. Pushkina [Bulletin of ...
Regularity and serendipity: a systemic asymmetry of singer songwriting
The author analyses the works of singer songwriters, i. e. lyrics of bard songs and rock poetry, from the point of view of their plot and their place in the typology of texts. The author identifies a discrepancy between the principles of building the plot of songs and the methods of creating the poetic model of the world in ...
On the problem of cultural reference of proverbs (the Russian proverbs with images of clothing)
... signs that preserve, transfer, and develop meanings rooted in the ethnic culture. The author investigates the ways cultural semantics is expressed in proverbs featuring clothing... ... yazykoznanie [General and Romance Linguistics]. Moscow, pp. 144—157.
10. Georgieva, S., 2007. Phraseological activity of the concept "bread" in Russian and Bulgarian... .... 355—356.
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34. Selivanova, E. A., 2002. Osnovy lingvisticheskoi teorii teksta...
The thought of death and overcoming of death in B. Pasternak’s cycle ‘Some Songs in Letters So She Won’t Be Bored’
The intertextual connections with the Bible found in the cycle ‘Songs in Letters So She Won’t Be Bored’ (My Sister Life, 1917) help identify the features of artistic expression of the Christian ideas of immortality in the early works of B. Pasternak. An analysis of the author’s symbolism shows that the philosophising persona of Pasternak’s book ponders on death looking for the ways to overcome it. ...
A “fascinating fake”: on the origin of a street song
This article proves that the song “When we met, bird cherry tree was in bloom”, which is traditionally perceived as a piece of urban folklore, is an authored work.
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лира: сб. тюремных и лагерных песен / сост. Я. Вайскопф. Иерусалим, 1981.
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“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
The author considers a lengthy program of research (that will be continued in a series of articles) on the artistic geography (geopoetics) of Alexander Galich, one of the brightest representatives of the author’s (bard’s) song of the 1960s—1970s. The construction of Galich poetic world actualizes the opposition of the center / periphery, while ...
On the question of the syllabic system of versification: the poetic practice of Theophan Prokopovich
... versification, who argue for a revolutionary shift in Russian poetic tradition, attributed to the publication of Vasily Trediakovsky's 1735 treatise. Additionally, the study aims to compare the theoretical recommendations outlined in Prokopovich's poetics and ... ... internal rhymes, rare inter-verse hyphenations, which together bring the rhythm and intonation of Theophan's elegies, cants and songs closer to the melodious syllabo-tonic verse, while the thirteen-syllable verses and some humorous heterosyllabic verses ...
Petroleum as a space for non-translation: Hikmet, Negarestani, Parshchikov
... poems based on his impressions of his visit to Azerbaijani capital, the city of Baku. They will be included in the collection Song of the Sun-drinkers (1928) and will soon be translated into Russian. The Baku cycle was one of the first attempts at a symbolic ... ... subjectivity, simultaneously fluid and explosive. On the other hand, the image of petroleum will play a key role in Alexei Parshchikov’s poem of the same name, where one can also discern echoes of this philosophy in Hikmet’s Baku cycle. For all these authors, petroleum acts as a radical expression of the logic of non-translation: it is a condensed memory of antiquity, which ...
Traditional Structures in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
... Chinese poem: is it possible to convey this in translation? (On the material of Du Fu's poetry). In: L. O. Zaionts, ed. Zhivoi kamen': ot prirody k kul'ture [Living stone:... .... In: N. T. Fedorenko et al., eds. Shitszin. Kniga pesen i gimnov [Shijing. Book of songs and hymns]. Moscow.
8. Barnes, A., 2007. Chinese through Poetry, an Introduction... ... shizhen' sin' shifen 北京来信：中国新诗人新诗风 [Letter from Beijing: New Authors and Trends in Chinese Poetry]. Available at:
https://poetryeastwest.com/2017/01/11/new-poets-new-trends-in-china/...
Identification of intonation and emotions of the native language in vocal melody perception
... paper describes an attempt to obtain factual data on the character of intonational correlation of national vocal music to the native language. The experiment was based on psycholinguistic approach and was performed by means of perceptive analysis. The author presents the concept of intonational percept of the Russian folk song by the native speakers. The concept has been tested in a number of tests on traditional folk songs perception. The findings of the psycholinguistic experiment prove the existence of a common invariant of the intonational percept of vocal folklore ...
Non-verbal elements of a film text in the semiosis of power
... studies various classifications of film text elements and analyses non-verbal signs used to demonstrate power in the ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Hollow Crown’ TV series, which are construed as an intersemiotic translation of G. Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series of novels and W. Shakespeare’s plays respectively. The author identifies signs serving as non-verbal lexical units of the film text, used to emphasize the authority of a character.
1. Анисимова Е. Е. Паралингвистика и текст (к проблеме креолизованных ...
Mary Crawford Fraser and Alice Mabel Bacon on the Japanese society of the late 19th/early 20th century
... political transformations but rather to the everyday life of Japanese society. The author stresses the special interest of the travelers in the changes in European ladies... ... European traditions still maintaining Japanese manners and views.
1. A Collector’s Guide to Books on Japan in English: A Sel ect List of Over 2500 titles with subject... ... Japanese ladies go shopping // The world’s story: a history of the world in story, song, and art. Vol. 1: China, Japan, and the Islands of the Pa¬cific. Boston, 1914...
