In present-day linguistics sexism serves as kind of an “umbrella” term covering and uniting quite a lot of seemingly heterogeneous and contradictory variants (from a covert or even benevolent sexism to overt or blatant one). Despite this multiplicity and variability, all versions of sexism share the idea of the opposite sex discrimination. Scholars have suggested […]
Tikhomirov V.A. Physical genius and atrophy of self-reflection in David Foster Wallace’s “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”
“How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart”, an essay by an American post-postmodernism writer David Foster Wallace, is formally a review of the autobiography of once a child prodigy in women’s tennis Tracy Austin. However, the text quickly overcomes the initially outlined framework and develops into sharp criticism of sports autobiography as a literary genre. Austin’s […]
Polovinkina O.I., Bychkova K.I. J.M. Coetzee and H.D. Thoreau: the motif of wandering in the novel “Life and Times of Michael K.”
The article analyses the narcissistic nature of J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Life and Times of Michael K.”; the artistic whole in this novel is based upon the principles of metafiction. Emphasizing the peculiarities of Franz Kafka’s and Henry David Thoreau’s style, Coetzee integrates certain motives of their works into his narrative. The article focuses on the […]
Morozova I.V. Women’s world in post-war Louisiana’s “Paradise Lost”: Grace King’s “Balcony Stories”
Distinct regional literary schools were formed after the Civil War in the United States. The so-called “New Orleans School” was the most original among them. Its leaders were women who not only responded to the burning questions of life in the post-war South with its trauma of having lost, but also raised important questions related […]
Martirosian G.E. Literary Afrofuturism in the 21st century Canadian literature (On example of “Dominoes at the Crossroads” by K. Kellough)
The article is devoted to the literary analysis of the story collection “Dominoes at the Crossroads” (2020) by Kaie Kellough as an Afrofuturist artifact of the newest culture of Canada. Afrofuturism itself is considered as a critical method and art movement, which, with the help of documentary and fantasy narratives, is designed to talk about […]
Belova O.E. Speech blunders of Ostrovsky’s heroes in view of the primary speech genres
The author of the article makes an attempt to study works of A.N. Ostrovsky through the lens of primary speech genres (based on M.M. Bakhtin’s and A.D. Stepanov’s research). This research can be conducted in different directions. For example, the author demonstrates exploration of some situations in Ostrovsky’s plays when the characters make certain speech […]
Shilova E.A. Ivanovo Lexicographic School: 25 years in the vanguard of modern Russian and European lexicography
The article is devoted to the history of Ivanovo Lexicographic School and the results of its scientific research. For citation: Shilova E.A. Ivanovo Lexicographic School: 25 years in the vanguard of modern Russian and European lexicography, Ivanovo State University Bulletin. Series: Humanities, 2022, iss. 1, pp. 174—180.
Kiseleva N.K. “The History of Spain” by Alfonso X the Wise: the authority of the monument and the significance of the translation. Book Review: Alfonso X the Wise and the collaborators. The history of Spain, which was compiled by the most noble King Don Alfonso, the son of the noble King Don Fernando and Queen Dona Beatrice. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2019. Vol. 1. 763 p
The review examines the value of the publication of the commented translation in Russian “The History of Spain” by Alfonso X the Wise. This chronicle — the most important monument of the Spanish medieval epoch of the 13th century — has not been translated into any European language. Certainly, a project to translate such a […]
Kasatkina S.S. University and city: noospheric relationship
The article is devoted to the consideration of the third mission of the university in the context of ideas about noospheric dynamics. The specificity of university subculture in the context of consumer civilization is fixed. An analysis of the interaction between the university and the city in the format of their co-evolution as the most […]
Zaitseva S.A., Smirnov V.A. Value regulators of the “recommender system” in the context of the spread of neural network models
A characteristic feature of the modern conditions of digital transformation of various processes in society is the emergence of not only a huge array of publicly available data intentionally left by users (active digital footprint), but also information about their interaction with various information and communication systems (passive digital footprint). The latter type of digital […]
Suleimenov I.E., Vitulyova Y.S., Shaltykova D.B. The concept of the noospheric university from the point of view of the dual essence of human intelligence
. It is shown that in the conditions of the crisis of the modern system of higher education, the question of what constitutes training as such is relevant. It is also shown that evidence of the dual nature of human intelligence, built on the use of the classical provisions of the theory of neural networks, […]
Finogentov V.N. The future of higher education: from a predominantly pragmatic orientation towards value-semantic fullness
. The main attention in the article is paid to the discussion of the upcoming revolutionary changes in the higher education system, which will result from the fundamental process of displacement of people from various fields of professional activity by various forms of artificial intelligence, which is already unfolding today. The article puts forward and […]
Shushkanova E.A. On the state service of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church (Based on the materials of the Yenisei province)
The place of the Orthodox clergy in the service system of the Russian state since its formation in the XV century is considered. In the process of further historical development, the service system was transformed towards the weakening of the state citizenship of the estates. However, with the gradual dismantling of the feudal model of […]
Sadvokasova Z.T. Missionary activity among dissenters in Kazakhstan (the second half of the XIX — early XX century)
. The activity of missionaries in Kazakhstan in the second half of the XIX — early XX century was associated not only with attracting foreigners to the bosom of Orthodoxy. The missionaries fought against the sectarian movement and the increasing devise (Old Believers), which became widespread among the Russian peasant settlers. Finding themselves in a […]