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• The Name of Prophet Abraham in the Old Russian Literature of XI—XIII centuries

  The spread of Christianity in Russia contributed to the development of writing and had a direct impact on the thematic, genre, figurative features of spiritual, and later secular literature. In this article, we consider the image of Abraham, one of the Biblical forefathers, along with Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, who are central to Old Testament. The author analyzes the mentioning of his name in various contexts of ancient Russian ...

• Was there ever realism? On the periodisation of Western European literature

  This article revisits the traditional perspective on realism as a prevalent trend in the European literature at the end of the 19th century. The author examines the perception of the concept of realism at the end of the 18th century (Friedrich Schiller) and in the 1850s (Champfleury and Duranty). It is stressed that Stendhal and Balzac did not associate ...

• Problems of Studying Russian Hagiography

  ... topoi. It is concluded that the worldview and mindset of the hagiographer play a crucial role in the creation of a vita belonging to a particular historical period and church traditions. The author addresses the problem of studying Russian hagiographic literature of the modern and contemporary periods. 1. Andronik (Trubachev), hegumen, 2000. Hagiology. In: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, ed. Pravoslavnaya entsiklopediya [Orthodox Encyclopedia]. Moscow. Vol. 1, pp. 252—253. 2. Afinogenov,...

• Memory phenomenon in the German literary criticism after 1989

  This paper focuses on different theories proposed by German literary scholars currently addressing the concept of "memory", and reconsider the role of literature as a medium for keeping and transferring cultural legacy through space and time. It is discovered that literature-as-a-medium and memories are interconnected. It is also demonstrated how reading evokes spe-cific memories and forms a certain ...

• The memento mori genre in medieval German literature

  This article addresses the memento mori genre in the German literature if the 11th-12th centuries. The works in this genre present a literary expression of the category of reminder of mortality. It is close to the sermon calling for repentance. The typical texts by Heinrich von Melk include lamentations about ...

• Imagology as a Part of Compartive Literary Studies

  ... tendencies in the imagological studies in Russia. The author holds that imagology has a significant potential for development and the subject of this field of science can be extended due to intensifying interactions between different national cultures and literatures. Bakhtin, M. M., 1979. Estetika slovesnogo tvorchestva [Aesthetics of Verbal Art]. Moscow. 424 p. (in Russ.). Dima, A., 1977. The image of an alien in various national literatures. In: Printsipy sravnitel'nogo literaturovedeniya [Principles ...

• Origins and beginnings. The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle as a reference point for literature in the Teutonic Order

  ... in the Teutonic Order. 1. Arnold U. De primordiis ordinis Theutonici narratio. Anfänge der Deutschordens-Geschichtsschreibung // Scriptores rerum Prussicarum. Frankfurt a/M., 1968. Bd. 6. 2. Bäuml F.H. The Oral Tradition and Middle High German Literature // Oral Tradition. 1986. № 1. S. 398—445. 3. Bericht Hermann von Salza’s über die Eroberung Preussens / hrsg. von Th. Hirsch // Scriptores rerum Prussicarum. Leipzig, 1874. Bd. 5. S. 159—168. 4. Brauns W. Die Livländische Reimchronik ...

• The interpenetration of literature and religious discourses in the post-war period (a case study of the Austrian Wort und Wahreit magazine

  ... materials of he Wort und Wahrheit magazine of 1946, the author addresses the ways of interdisciplinary interaction in literary periodicals of post-war Austria. 1.  Bense M. Ptolemäer und Mauretanier oder die theologische Emigration der deutschen Literatur. Köln; B., 1950. 2.  Buck Th . Zu Georg Trakl Gedicht «Menschheit» // Austriaca. 2008. №   32—33. 3.  Honegger J.   B. Das Phänomen der Angst bei Franz Kafka. B., 1975. 4.  Janouch G. Gespräche mit Kafka. Fr. ...

• Indirect translation: Main trends in practice and research

  ... sociology of translation. Book translations as a cul­tural world-system. European Journal of Social Theory, 2 (4), pp. 429—444. Ivaska, L., 2016. Uncovering the Many Source Texts of Indirect Translations: Indi­rect Translations of Modern Greek Prose Literature into Finnish 1952—2004. In: 8 th Euro­pean Society for Translation Studies Congress. Aarhus, Denmark, 15—17 September 2016. Ivaska, L., 2018. Three Methods to Uncover the de facto source language(s) of translations.” In: “Culture ...

• The facets of German mentality and the search for a national identity in Germany’s sociocultural context at the turn of the century

  ... nach sich selbst. Hamburg, 2017. 25. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (Hg.). Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1998, Martin Walser. Ansprachen aus Anlaß der Verleihung. Frankfurt a/M, 1998. 26. Gedächtnis und Identität: Die deutsche Literatur nach der Vereinigung. Königshausen u. Neumann, 2008. 27. Leier N. Wendeliteratur — Literatur der Wende? Der Mauerfall in ausgewählten Werken der deutschen Literatur // Deutschlehrertag der Académie Montpellier am 20. Januar 2010. S. 12—13....

• Embedding imagology in Translation Studies

  ... Beller, M. and Leerssen, J. eds., 2007. Imagology: The Cultural Construction and Lit­erary Representation of National Characters — a critical survey. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. Bielsa, E., 2013. Translation and the international circulation of literature. A com­parative analysis of the reception of Roberto Bolaño’s work in Spanish and Eng­lish. The Translator, 19(2), pp. 157—181. Coenen, L., 2013. The Image of Spain in Dutch Travel Writing (1860—1960). PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam....

• Kruglov A. N. Kant and Kant’s philosophy in Russian belles-lettres

  ... Russian Review. 1998. Vol. 57, № 4. 6. Hirschberg W. R. [Review:] Ya. E. Golosovker. Dostoevski) i Kant. Moskva. A. N. 1963. 101 pages. 21 k. // Books Abroad. 1965. Vol. 39, № 1. 7. Mallak G. de. Pasternak’s Critical-Esthetic Views // Russian Literature Tri-quarterly. 1973. № 6. 8. Mallak G. de. Pasternak and Marburg // Russian Review. 1979. Vol. 38, № 4. 9. R.B. [Review:] Ya. E. Golosovker, Dostoyevski i Kant. Moscow, Izd. AN SSSR, 1963. 102 pp. 21 kopeks // Soviet Studies. 1964. Vol....

• The modifications of the fairy tale genre in the modern Czech literature: The case of A. Mikulka O jelenovi s kulometem and J. Černický’s O Sasance

  Fairy tales by two Czech authors — J. Černický and A. Mikulka — are used to consider the problem of modification of the author’s fairy tale genre in the modern Czech literature. On the one hand, writers take into account the traditions of the 20th century Czech author’s fairy tale, which was developed by many other Czech authors. In Mikulka’s works, elements of folklore fairy tale are interpreted based on the ...

• Hagiographic genre in the works of Konrad von Wurzburg

  ... Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Special attention is paid to Konrad von Wurzburg’s concept of ‘genre’, its essential features and the reader’s perception of hagiographic texts. I hold that German medieval writ­ers tended to create spiritual literature in a poetic form. I define the terms, which according to Ger­man tradition, characterize hagiography as a genre in the medieval epoch and compared them with the notion used by Konrad von Würzburg. I examine the peculiarities of the text structure,...

• Metanarrative in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Fame

  ... Gass W. Fictions and the figures of Life. N. Y., 1971. 4. Gasser M. Das Königreich im Meer: Daniel Kehlmanns Geheimnis. Göttingen, 2010. 5. Gerstenbräun M. A fiction is a fiction is fiction? Metafiktionalität im Werk von Kehlmann D. Studien zu Literatur und Film der Gegenwart. Marburg, 2012. Bd. 4. 6. Kehlmann D. Lob. Über Literatur. Hamburg, 2011. 7. Kehlmann D. Diese sehr ernsten Scherze. Poetikvorlesungen. Göttingen, 2007. 8. Kehlmann D. Leo Richters Porträt. Reinbeck bei Hamburg, ...

• OPOIAZ and Bakhtin: the Decision Science’s perspective

  ... obozrenie [New Literary Review], 139(3), pp. 16—30 (in Russ.). Tynyanov, Yu., 1925. Kyukhlya. Povest' o dekabriste [Kühlya. The Tale of the De­cembrist]. Leningrad: Kubuch (in Russ.). Tynyanov, Yu., 1936. Pushkin [Pushkin]. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literature (in Russ.). Tynyanov, Yu., 1977. Literary fact. In: Yu. Tynyanov, ed. Poetika, istoriya, litera­tu­ry, kino [Poetics, history, literature, cinema]. Moscow: Nauka. pp. 255—270 (in Russ.). Tynyanov, Yu., 1977. About literary evolution. In: ...

• Historiography and literature: An alliance or a symbiosis?

  ... J. Berns, W. Neubeck, eds. Ars memorativa: zur kulturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung der Gedächtniskunst 1400—1750. Tübingen. pp. 73—100. 4. Harth, D. Historik und Poetik. Plädoyer für ein gespanntes Verhältnis. In: H. Eggert, ed. Geschichte als Literatur: Formen und Grenzen der Repräsentation von Vergangenheit. Stuttgart. pp. 12—23. 5. Nünning, A., ed., 1998. Metzler-Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ansätze — Personen — Grundbegriffe. Stuttgart; Weimar. 6. Moses, St., 1993. Eingedenken ...

• The typological features of the anthroponymicon across different genres of Old Russian literary texts

  ... and loanwords. The author analyses two- and three-part male and female given names and examines their phonetic adaptation in Old Russian. Citations are selected from the Russian National Corpus. 1. Likhachev, D. S., 1997. The greatness of ancient literature. In: D. S. Likhachev, ed. Biblioteka literatury Drevnei Rusi [Library of the Ancient Rus literature]. St. Petersburg. Vol. 1, p. 9. 2. Podol'skaya, N. V., 1978. Slovar' russkoi onomasticheskoi terminologii [Dictionary of Russian onomastic terminology] ...

• History in Transcription and Transcription as History: Charles Bally in Soviet Linguistics

  ... akterskom iskusstve 60—80-kh godov [Scenic creativity of A. A. Mironov and the problem of style in the acting art of the 60s-80s], PhD. Moscow. 12. Voloshinov, V. N., 1928. The newest trends of linguistic thought in the west. Literatura i marksizm [Literature and marxism], 5, pp. 115—149. 13. Voloshinov, V. N., 1929. Marksizm i filosofiya yazyka [Marxism and the Philosophy of Language]. Leningrad. 14. Voloshinov, V. N., 1930. On the limits of poetics and linguistics. In: V. Desnitskii, L. Tsyrlin ...

• Chinese view on modern Russian literature in the context of tradition and modernity

  Through analysing the mechanisms of reception of modern Russian literature in Chinese literary criticism, the author shows that a Chinese reader has a predisposition to understand texts in the context of the urgent national problem of preserving traditions. This predisposition affects the interpretation and perception ...

• The transformation of the development novel (Entwicklungsroman) genre in the oeuvre of G. Meyrink

  ... as well as the literary feature of Meyrink’s prose, the character is considered as a subject in the course of development, whereas the author’s variant of the Entwicklungsroman is interpreted as an initiation novel. 1. Cersowsky P. Phantastische Literatur im ersten Viertel des 20. Jahrhunderts. Untersuchungen zum Strukturwandel des Genres, seinen geistesgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen und zur Tradition der 'schwarzen Romantik' insbesondere bei Gustav Meyrink, Alfred Kubin und Franz Kafka, Fink....

• The International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature and its Activity in the Baltic Sea States

  The article offers general information about the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL) and its main lines of activity. The authors focus on the activity of MAPRYAL in the Baltic Sea States offering a detailed description of the International Festival of Russian Language in the Baltic Sea States, and the events held ...

• ‘The Word, an Ulcer…’: Aleksey Chicherin’s semiotic utopia

  ... both the semantic enrichment of the sign and an uncontrolled increase in its entropy. This way, the sign is deprived of the predictable interpretive frameworks and conventions. Grübel, R., 1987. Kang-Fung: constructivism-functionalism. In: Russian Literature. Vol. XXII, pp. 51—62. Janecek, G., 1989. A. N. Čičerin, konstruktivist poet. In: Russian Literature. Vol. XXV, pp. 469—524. Biryukov, S. E., 2006. About projective theories of Russian avant-garde. “Phonic music” and acoustic tension ...

• Fet and the symbolists

  ... Соловьев В. Стихотворения. Эстетика. Литературная критика. М., 1990. 8. Фет А. А. Соч.: в 2 т. М., 1982. Т. 2. 9. Bristol E. Turn of a century: 1895—1925 // The Cambridge History of Russian literature. Cambridge, 1989. 10. Connolly J. The nineteenth century 1880—1990 // The Cambridge History of Russian literature. Cambridge, 1989. Shenshina V. A. 279-290

• Karamzin 's code in the novel by V. V. Sipovsky "The Journey of Erast Krutolobov"

  ... novel "The Journey Erastus Krutolobov..." (1929) by the Soviet and Russian philologist V. V. Sipovsky as a tool for explaining Sipovsky’s literary concepts. Emphasis is placed on Karamzin, who Sipovsky considered a key-figure for the Russian literature of the XVIII and XIX centuries. According to Sipovsky, Karamzin managed to combine different, sometimes opposing, literary trends. Sipovsky’s parodical novel illustrates the impact of literary struggle of idealism and realism of early XIXth ...

• Social practices and mechanisms of socialization of uncertainty

  ... Princeton, 2006. 3.  Dequech D. Uncertainty and Economic Sociology: A Prelimninary Dis­cus­sion // American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 2003. Vol. 62. №   3. P. 509—532. 4.  Dequech D. Varieties of uncertainty: a survey of the economic literature (forthcoming). 5.  Eymard-Duvernay F., Favereau O., Orléan A. et al. Plu­ralist Integration in the Economic and Social Sciences: the Economy of Con­ventions // Post-autistic economics review. 2005. №   34. Art. 2. P. 22—40. 6.  Thévenot ...

• The literary revision of Négritude in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop

  This article analyses the problems addressed in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, through the prism of imagology — the study of cultural stereotypes as presented in literature. Within the ideational structure of the novel, the author analyses the theory of négritude, which holds that the African civilisation plays a special role in the world. It is concluded that the négritude philosophy is expressed in the novel ...

• The literary domain of Germany after the reunification

  This article deals with the key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu’s literary domain theory as applied to post-1989 German literature. The major extra-literary factors that affected fictional discourse after the Unification of Germany are described. Special attention is paid to the inter-discursive nature of contemporary literary landscape. 1. Emmerich E. Das literarische ...

• The bestiary motif in Russian literature

  The notions of “animalism” and “bestiary” are distinguished on the basis of Russian prose of the 20th/21st centuries. The author analyses the poetic functions of bestiary motifs in Russian postmodernist literature (A. Korolyov, V. Pelevin, V. Sorokin). 1.  Бабенко Н.   Г . Лингвопоэтика русской литературы эпохи постмодерна. СПб., 2007. 2.  Королев А. Сгинь, коса! // Журнальный ...

• Correnpondence of Wladislaw Broniewski and Irena Gelman: historical and cultural context

  ... of Irena Gelman, the author explores the historical and cultural context as well as the poetic vision of the correspondents. Additionally, these letters bear testimony to their romatic feeling. The authors of the letters knew and appreciated Russian literature, which was one of the subject matters in their letters, and valued both classical Russian literature and the literatrure of the time. In their letters, both Broniewski and Gelman often used Russian words and phrases, which reinforced the context ...

• V. The hagiographic topic in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Inexhaustible Chalice

  ... 76-79 (in Russ.). Bocharov, S.G., 1985. O khudozhestvennykh mirakh [On the artistic worlds]. Moscow (in Russ.). Dorofeeva, L.G., 2014. A humble person in the hagiography of Ancient Rus. Germenevtika drevnerusskoi literatury [Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature], 16-17, pp. 9-388 (in Russ.). Ilyin, I.A., 2000. Sobranie sochinenii. Perepiska dvukh Ivanov (1927-1934) [Collected Works. Correspondence of two Ivan (1927-1934)]. Moscow (in Russ.). Keler, L., 1972. I. S. Shmelev about himself and about others....

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• On the poetics of literature genres

• European literature: A space for dialogue

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• Literature: Keeping and Transmitting Russian Cultural Code

  Kling O. 19-20

• Aspects of anagram functionality in Russian poetry

  Anagram, poetic text, symbol, paronomasia, semiotics, diachrony, Russian literature. 1. Генон Р. Символы священной науки. М., 1997. 2. Гущин В. Дмитрий Авалиани: Средневековое доверие к знаку. URL: http://old.russ.ru/journal/netcult/98-10-07/guschn....

• Text reinterpretation and the motif of transformation in a short form of Internet poetry

  ... Internet: mechanisms of humor]. In: A. Birikh, ed. The language of Russian poetry of the late XX — early XXI century. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (in Russ.). Kurganov, E., 2014. Anekdot kak zhanr russkoi slovesnosti [Anecdote as a genre of Russian literature]. Moscow (in Russ.). Lendvai, E., 2001. Pragmalingvisticheskie mekhanizmy sovremennogo russkogo anek­dota [Pragmalinguistic mechanisms of a modern Russian joke]. PhD thesis. Moscow (in Russ.). Neklyudov, S. Yu., 1995. After folklore. Zhivaya ...

• East on the “mental map” of 18th century English essayists: The imagological aspect

  ... main oriental constructs on the Englishmen’s «mental map» as artistic methods of opening up the literary space of the era. 1. Duprat A., Picherot É. Récits d'orient dans les littératures d'Europe: XVIe-XVIIe siècles. P., 2008. 2. Makdisi S. Literature, national identity, and empire // Keymer T., Mee J. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740—1830. Cambridge, 2004. P. 61—79. 3. Ouseley W. Persian Miscellanies: an Essay. L., 1795. 4. Schenk F. B. Mental Maps: Die kognitive ...

• The international research conference Spiritual Fundamentals in Russian literature, History, and Art: Dedicated to the 700th Anniversary of the Birth of Sergius of Radonezh (Kaliningrad, October 1-4, 2014)

  Dorofeeva L. 134-140

• Between mysticism and technique: anagram the European Baroque culture

  ... Valorium Edition of the Poetry of John Donne / ed. G. A. Stringer. Bloomington, 2000. Vol. 2: The Elegies. 10. Drévillon H. Lire et écrire l’avenir. L’astrologie dans la France du grand siècle (1610—1715). Seyssel, 1996. 11. Emrich W. Deutsche Literatur der Barockzeit. Königstein, 1981. 12. Fictions narratives en prose de l’âge baroque. Répertoire analytique / sous la dir. F. Greiner. P., 2007. Partie 1 (1585—1610). 13. Fictions narratives en prose de l’âge baroque. Répertoire analytique ...

• The intertextual connections between Yu. Buida’s novel Boris and Gleb and The tale of the murder of Daniil of Suzdal and the beginning of Moscow

  ... literary parallels but also identify the text generating mechanisms characteristic of the contemporary novelist’s works. The article considers the aspects of intertextual interaction between Yu. Buida’s novel and the masterpiece of 17th century Russian literature. 1.  Буйда Ю. Борис и Глеб // Знамя. 1997. №   1. С. 8—157. 2.  Буйда Ю. Прусская невеста. М., 1998. 3.  Виноградов В.   В. Чтение древнерусского текста ...

• 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: from nature to culture]. Moscow, p. 194—205. 3. Alekseev, V. N., 1978. Kitaiskaya literature [Chinese literature]. Moscow. 4. Dreizis, Yu. A., 2015. Development of the concept of poetic language in modern experimental poetry of China. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Ser. 13: Vostokovedenie [Moscow University Bulletin. Ser. 13: Oriental ...