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• Jerzy Andrzejewski's “The Inquisitors” and Dostoyevsky's “The Grand Inquisitor”: Temptation as Existential Problem

  The article compares the existential motifs of 'historical' novel “The Inquisitors” by Jerzy Andrzejewski and the parable chapter “The Grand Inquisitor” from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's “The Brothers Karamazov”. The motif of temptation connected with the interpretation of the Gospel plays the key role in both texts. 1.  Анджеевский Е . Мрак покрывает землю // Анджеевский Е. Сочинения: в 2 т. М., 1990. Т. 2. ...

• The motif of temptation in G. G. Byron’s mystery play Cain

  ... для учителя. М., 1971. 11. Byron G. G. N. Cain // Lord Byron. The poetical works of Lord Byron: with copious illustrative notes, and a memoir of his life. Philadelphia, 1876. Reprint edition. P. 450—471. Zhilina N Byron, Cain, Lucifer, temptation motif, good, evil, god, devil. 77-82

• The myth as a source of cultural legitimation: the rock and hip-hop versions of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice

  ... foundation for aesthetic legitimation of rock and hip-hop lyrics and their inclusion in a greater cultural context. The study explores the forms of representation of Orpheus’s dual semantics as the archetypical poet and musician as well as of the general motifs of temptation/seduction and selling one’s soul. It is established that, perceived as a single source of meanings and plots, the myth encourages the musical and poetical culture of the 20th/early 21st centuries to exploit deep¬er levels of the mythological ...