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The article presents a historical and scientific analysis of the oral presentations and other works that criticized Boris Eikhenbaum’s “Melodics of Verse” and Viktor Zhirmunsky’s “Rhyme, Its History and Theory” from the perspective of Moscow formalism. The overview relies on unknown materials, which can thus be introduced into scholarly discourse. It refers to the presentations made by the philologist and philosopher Maksim Kœnigsberg and the literary scholar Mikhail Shtokmar, a student of Boris...

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 two French-language novels at the turn of the 14th—15th ...

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 the criminal song characteristics,...

... or the Modern Prometheus”, the motives of the supernatural are rationalized through the use of scientific and technical issues. The goal of the presented research is detecting the nature, methods and specif­ics of the transformations of the Gothic plot that led to the formation of the science fiction genre. It is achieved by the use of comparative, historical-genetic, hermeneutic, mythopoetic methods. Gothic literature reacted to the growing interest in scientific and technological progress by ...

Using the rock opera Orpheus and Eurydice (1975) and Hip-hopera: Orpheus & Eurydice (2018), we analyse interpretations of the ancient myth in today’s popular culture. We demonstrate how the plot and motif transformations of the pre-text bridge the gap between history and modernity. In both the rock opera and the hip-hopera, the ancient theme of descent into the kingdom of the dead in the name of love merges with its semiotic double: the ...

... highlighting the persona’s interpretation of the appearance of the red horse and the white poodle as miraculous within the context of the depicted rural idyll. A description is provided of the persona’s perspective and some aspects of the lyrical plot, which is chiefly shaped by the images of the two animals. A conclusion is drawn regarding the status of the persona as an artist and creator, which allows the entire The Latvian Ballad to be considered as a poetic text dedicated to the art and mission ...

... philosophy of the novel under study. This article traces the main features of the literary representation of the notions of friendship, charity, erotic love, and familial love in “Till We Have Faces”. All four forms of love are analyzed at the levels of plot development, the construction of the main female charac­ters (Psyche and Orual), and the philosophical dimension of the mythological novel in the context of the ancient Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which serves as the narrative founda­tion of ...

... additional predication, which makes it possible to expand the narrative. The predicative attribute often combines the functions of an attribute with those of the adverbial modifiers of cause and consequence, which gives additional impetus to the narrative plot development. The analysis shows that Nekrasov’s style is characterized by nu­merous long repetitions of functionally similar grammatical elements, taking several lines. These repetitions often set the rhythm and determine the folklore character ...

... storyline of The Miracle, which involved the shortening of the text, the introduction of new narrative details, naming the main character, and providing a more detailed description of his appearance. The authors argue that, at a later stage of mastering the plot of the Miracle, My­andin created his own version of the events described. He employed his own vocabulary satu­rating the plot with details, which were missing in the first version. He cleared the text of unnecessary motives that distract the reader ...

... hagiographic topics in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Inexhaustible Chalice, which are expressed through different components of the novel’s literary structure — ranging from the individual traits of the main character, Ilya Sharonov, to twists of the plot and the milestones of his biography. We maintain that in terms of the genre this novel resembles both the lives of the righteous and the lives of the venerable. The novel conforms to the canons of hagiographic texts because of the presence of a righteous ...

... novel towards a difficult, yet clear victory of life over death. I trace how the autobiographical character- narrator gradually turns to God and faith. I prove that, in the novel’s poetics, the author uses such a technique as the compression of the plot and the idea into two symbolic metaphors — the dance in the crematory and the zoo, which stand for resurrection and the triumph of life in the tragic space of Königsberg/Kaliningrad — a city devastated by the war. Berdyaev, N.A., 1995. Tsarstvo ...

The image of Christ is analyzed in Boris Poplavsky’s book of verses “Snowy hour”. Biblical allusions, lyrical plot of poems, composition and an image of lyrical subject are considered. Researched levels of literary text are studied with connection with the image of Christ, whose personality has important place in religious diaries of the poet. This diaries becomes ...

... of the soul, while the Christmas archetype carries the idea of the incarnation of God, and hence there is a need for this type of literature which refers to earthly change and earthly joy. Varlamov’s short story is distinguished by an appeal to the plot of the prodigal son, according to I. A. Esaulov, that is Easter-oriented at its core, with a three-part composition “creation (prosperity)—fall into sin (temptation/trial) — resurrection”. The Easter archetype is also embodied through the ...

... basic frame scenario is executed with high preci­sion, i.e. using a complete set of ideationally significant slots, the biblical quasi-anthroponym prodigal son determines how deeper meanings associated with the poetic interpretation of that eternal plot develop in the text. The inheritance of meanings is carried out both explicitly and implicitly, whereas the poetic interpretation of the biblical plot retains an essential con­nection with the basic protoframe. In most contexts, the meanings of ...

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 the central and peripheral areas of this type of songs....

The paper presents analysis of ekphrasis as part of artistic structure in D. Tartt’s «The Goldfinch», its plot and images of characters. The paper proves that ekphrasis helps the writer to describe the important tendencies of the existence of culture in the contemporary society. Existential motifs connected with the meeting of characters with the art treasures ...

The plot structure of the poem by a Russian author of the Pushkin era A. Podolinsi is characterised in comparison with the context of Russian Romanti-cism and the conceptual constants of Russian cultural consciousness. The au-thor identifies the function ...

The analysis of Vladimir Monomakh’s “autobiogrpahy” in the context of the confession-reflexion form brings the author to the conclusion that repentance is the central motif dominating the logic of the plot in the second part of the Instruction. 1.  Поучение Владимира Мономаха // Памятники литературы Древней Руси: Начало русской литературы: XI— начало XII века....

... extremely popular in Central Europe X—XII centuries, and hagiographies and old Russian chronicles re­lated geographically to the events that took place in the basin of the Upper Oka. The author identified several direct and indirect parallels of the plot. Among them, there is a description of the activities of the Adalbert-Gaudentius brothers and the legendary Radim and Vyatko brothers. The story describing the tragic death of hieromonk Kuksha is similar to the ones describing the killing of Adalbert ...

This article analyses such problems of the legal regulation of civil transactions with common use land plots as the legality of land lease, methods of maintaining the legal status of the land, and informing land owners, land users and other economic entities about the establishment of the legal status. 1. Земельный кодекс Российской ...

This article studies the Coot and Moorhen breeding in urban conditions. Seven years’ (1999—2003, 2006 -2007) field studies resulted in the compilation of an atlas of the Kaliningrad region’s nesting birds. The city territory was divided into 206 plots of an area of 1 km2. The urbanisation rate was estimated on a scale of 1 to 5. Kaliningrad is home to 208 breeding pairs of coots and 56 of moorhens. The Coot is more widespread (present in 25.2 % of the plots) than the Moorhen (13.6 %). The population ...

... of the artistic signifi­cance of the text and creation of tropic relations), characterizing (description of the characters’ personalities), referential (recreation of the cultural-historical context of the era), and text-forming (formation of the plot framework and structuring of intratextual connections). It is shown that precedent names in the text of the work have a multifunctional character, with the ludic function serving as the hyperfunction. precedent name, functions of precedent ...

... social network of character interactions is particularly popular. Another important task is the analysis of the structure of a work, the identification of narrative units, and their comparison. This article proposes a quantitative method for identifying plot lines based on the analysis of character names and location names. The author’s division of the text into chapters is used as the unit of analysis, as it most adequately reflects the overall intent. The method is based on finding intersections ...

... abandonment, vulnerability, farewell, hopelessness, and suicide. The semantic structure of the artistic world of the late (and not only late) poems is marked by a ternary model of “nature — human — civilization/society.” The movement of the “plot” in most late poems is determined by the internal catastrophic change in the psychological state of the lyrical subject, seeking voluntary departure from life, which is reflected in the expressive, emotionally evaluative, and reduced lexicon, the ...

... examined in the context of the nomadological theory of postmodernism as reflected in the writings of philosophers G. Deleuze and F. Guattari. The study investigates the concept of the “rhizome,” which in Tokarczuk’s work functions as a method of plot construction for her literary texts in general and the novel Primeval and Other Times in particular. The metaphor of the rhizome is expressed in the novel not only through the image of a giant fungal network, a mycelium, but also through a distinctive ...

The article explores the symbolism of the forest in N. Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” This study aims not only to interpret the meanings associated with this topos but also to illus­trate its role in developing three internal plots within the novel. A brief overview of the for­est’s reception as a symbolic space in European culture reveals four primary interpretations: the forest as a source of materials and resources, the forest as hell, the forest as paradise, and the ...

... elements. The findings may be of interest to literary scholars researching the works of Russian poets of the Silver Age and may also be applicable in the practice of lexicography. C.S. Lewis, the four loves, mythological novel, Cupid and Psyche, plot 41—50 10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-2-4

... to depicting Pushkin himself is changing, but also the symbolic context in which they are included: from endowing Pushkin with the features of an ideal example of poetry to forming detailed personal representations. The dynamics of the ‘philatelic plot’ building around the anniversaries of Pushkin's work shows that, being a ‘strong sign’ immersed in the structure of everyday practices as a means of mass influence, the postage stamp is a powerful socio-semiotic resource that has a direct impact ...

The article is devoted to the questions "Who am I? What am I?", which have been actively spreading in the Russian language since the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, both in poetry and prose. As a linguistic means of self-presentation and self-iden­tification, questions are used in situations that encourage a person to reflect on their place in so­ciety and their own rank feelings. The very fact of using the rhetorical questions "Who am I? What am I?" excludes...

... the Russian Academy of Sciences. In: P. Plecháč, B. P. Scherr, T. Sku­lacheva, H. Bermúdez-Sabel and R. Kolár, eds. Quantitative Approaches to Versification . Prague, pp. 183—191. Petrov, A. M., 2021. Spiritual Verses about Tsarevich Joasaph: Plots and Metrical Models. Antropologicheskij forum [Forum for Anthropology and Culture], 49, pp. 88—131, https://doi.org/10.31250/1815-8870-2021-17-49-88-131 (in Russ.). Petrov, A. M., 2022. Trochaic tetrameter in Russian folk spiritual verses of ...

... poetika maloi prozy Z. N. Gippius 1890— 1900-kh godov (gendernyi aspect) [Problematics and poetics of small prose by Z. N. Gippius in the 1890s— 1900s (gender aspect)]. Saratov (in Russ.). Magomedova, D. M., 2018. Rewriting the “New People” Plot in the Russian Fic­tion at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries (V. V. Veresayev and Z. N. Gippius). Novyi filologicheskii vestnik [The New Philological Bulletin], 2 (45), pp. 118—125, https://doi.org/10.24411/2072-9316-2018-00020 ...

... as intermediate stage is usually assessed negatively. Thus, either the very possibility of life after death or people’s certainty of being in heaven can be ridiculed. In case of actualizing cowardice through escaping death, the only popular comic plot is making the dead look alive in order to use him like the alive one. Ariès, Ph., 1992. Chelovek pered litsom smerti [Man in Front of Death]. Moscow (in Russ.). Bakhtin, M. M., 1990. Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaya kul'tura srednevekov'ya ...

... posed. The overall goal and objectives of the study determine the com­plex nature of the traditional methods used for philological analysis of texts and the semiotic approach to texts. The analysis of the Old English text showed the interweaving of plots of the Old and New Testaments, reflecting opposing views on poverty and wealth, sacrifices, acts of gift and exchange. Issues related to the deeds of the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament Apostle Paul are highlighted in the context of ...

... digital texts. The recipient of a literary text brings to life the narrative or a lyrical 'self', actively enga­ging with the text through imagination. The recipient of a digital text identifies with an 'ava­tar' capable of making choices that influence plot development but is less effective at enriching un­folding scenes and events with additional meanings. Barthes, R., 1984. Third Sense: Investigative Notes on Several Photograms of S. M. Eisenstein. In: Stroyenie fil’ma [Film Structure],...

... isomorphism of the part and the whole. The structural generality of the different levels of the novel and the novel space is based on the technique of inversion. There is a movement of value poles within the system of oppositions, at the level of narrative, plot and space (the aggressor — the victim, the East — the West, the centre — the periphery, one’s own — someone else’s). The generally accepted structure of the zones of the centre and the periphery is changing: the periphery is associated ...

This article explores the phenomenon of online political activism, specifically political blogging, from the perspective of the author's concept of prosumer activity. It focuses on the multimodal texts of websites that convey political messages using a range of semiotic codes. The study aims to demonstrate how the political identity of the addresser is encoded and expressed in the information product. The analysis results in a typology of multimodal texts, classified into three types based on their...

... by F. M. Dostoev­sky “The Idiot”. In: Evangel'skii tekst v russkoi literature XVIII — XX vekov: Tsitata, re­mi­nistsentsiya, motiv, syuzhet, zhanr [Gospel Text in Russian Literature of the 18th — 20th Centuries: Quote, Reminiscence, Motif, Plot, Genre]. Petrozavodsk, 2, pp. 391—408 (in Russ.). Kutkovoy, V., 2004, O nekotoryh konceptualnyh priemah lichnogo pisma v drevney ikonopisi [On some conceptual techniques of personal writing in ancient iconogra­phy]. Available at: https://pravoslavie....

... Pushkin’s short story ‘The blizzard’, Zhukovsky's ballad ‘Svetlana’, from which Pushkin borrowed the epigraph, and Burger's ‘Lenora’, which was twice used by Zhukovsky in different contexts. Differences in the functioning of the traditional plot are considered against the background of the interrela­tion and interdependence between fate, chance, and free will. In a Christian reading, the atti­tudes of the main characters of the three works to God's providence explain the motives be­hind ...

In his novels, Dostoevsky refers to the Pushkin text to describe characters. For Dostoev­sky, Pushkin is an ethical and aesthetic touchstone; the writer’s voice is consonant with that of the poet’s persona. In some cases, the Pushkin text is embedded in religious discourse (the parable of the prodigal son). In interpreting the Pushkin text, Dostoevsky’s characters present and disclose themselves. The ‘dreamer’ from ‘White Nights’ invokes the Pushkin text to con­vey the values of his own. In her peculiar...

... Otechestvennoi voine 1812 goda Sbornik materialov konferentsii [Moscow in the Patriotic War of 1812: Conference proceedings]. Moscow. pp. 110—121 (in Russ.). Mitroshenkova, L. V. and Lvov, S. V., 2014. Panorama “Borodino”: to the history of the plot. In: Epokha napoleonovskikh voin: lyudi, sobytiya, idei. Sbornik materialov kon­ferentsii [The Age of Napoleonic Wars: people, events, ideas. Conference procee­dings]. Moscow. pp. 111—116 (in Russ.). Melnikova, L. V., Sekirinsky, S. S., Podmazo,...

The article analyses the emotive aspect of the production and perception of the speech act of threat and the specificity of the perception of this act by a modern native speaker of Rus­sian. The act of threat is an instrument of influence exerted on the listener. Its effectiveness depends on the strength of the negative emotions of anxiety, fear, etc. initiated in the listener. At the same time, the production of threatening statements is often associated with the speak­er's emotional state, which...

... Il‘in, M. V., 2018. Image, appearance, eidos, figure, pattern. How do words help to recognize images, feel them, understand meanings and meanings? Slovo.ru: the Baltic accent, 9(2), pp. 6—20 (in Russ.). Kovalev, O. A., Negreeva, A. D., 2013. The plot and rhythm in the lyrics of Brod­sky: to the question of the relationship between semantics and the rhythmic structure of the lyric text. Filologiya i chelovek [Philology and Man], 3, pp. 60—66 (in Russ.). Kovtunova, I. I., 2005. Syntax of poetic ...

... In this interpretation, being in itself appears as a text. Philosophizing as such is reali­zed in various forms of textualization, which are the focus of this article. Verbal textualization (sing­le words, paremia, aphoristics, parables, detailed plots, hermeneutic interpretations, con­ceptual systems) does not exclude visual, activity-driven textualizations and their mutual translations. Philosophy is capable of taking on diverse, dissimilar forms. It is as diversified as the paths of human ...

... [Transactionses on Sign Systems], 9, pp. 51—61 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1981. The brain — text — culture — artificial intelligence. Semi­otika i informatika [Semiotics and Computer Science], 1, pp. 13—17 (in Russ.). Lotman, Yu. M., 1993. Death as a plot issue. In: Studies in Slavic Literature and Po­etics. Vol. XX: Literary Tradition and Practice in Russian Culture: Papers from an Interna­tional Conference on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Yu. M. Lotman. Amster­dam: Rodopi. pp. 1—15 ...

... Shklovskii, ed. Gam­burg­skii schet: stat'i — vospominaniya — esse (1914—1933) [The Hamburg Account: articles — memoirs — essay (1914—1933)]. Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel'. pp. 35—39 (in Russ.). Shklovskii, V., 1919. Connection of the methods of plot with the general methods of style. In: Poetika: sborniki po teorii poeticheskogo yazyka [Poetics: collections on the theory of poetic language]. pp. 115—150 (in Russ.). Shklovskii, V., 1923. Sentimental'noe puteshestvie. Vospominaniya 1917—1922 ...

The article describes the main features of the hagiographic genre in the Life of Alexander from Plutarch’s Comparative Biographies. I use the comparative, reverse and structural-semantic methods to analyse the biography of Alexander the Great, the images of the protago­nist and the narrator, the unreality and the deification of the protagonist. There is a certain typological convergence between bios as a genre and Plutarch’s ancient biographies. This convergence is reflected in the structure of Alexander’s...