The paper is related with the actual problems of Old Russian literature, its period structure. Many of the university courses used traditionally the term “Kievan Rus X—XIII cc.” for the early Russian literature. Its clear, however, that this usage is not correct. Because since 1155 the capital of Rus’ was moved from Kiev to Wladimir-on-Klyazma. […]
Sadovnikova Y.M. Barry Unsworth's “Morality Play”: features of the structure of english postmodernism
The article attempts to consider the specifics of the English version of postmodernism on the example of Barry Unsworth’s novel “Morality Play”, published in 1995, and for the first time in Russian was published in 2005. This is a good example of a fruitful combination of two updated genres: new historical fiction and metaphysical detective. […]
Lukyanova S.M. The frenzied Theophylact. The pseudonym of A.S. Pushkin as a self-portrait
The article is devoted to the actual problem of interpretation of the func-tional masks of the artist, which allow solving specific artistic and journalistic tasks in a playful way. The object of the research is the publicist mask of A.S. Pushkin “Theophylact Kosichkin”, a comprehensive study of which demonstrates various strategies of Pushkin the writer […]
Kiseleva I.S. Paradox and black clowning in Friedrich Durrenmatt's comedy “Meteor”
The article analyzes the main features of the comic in the famous come-dy of the famous Swiss German-speaking novelist, playwright and publicist Friedrich Durrenmatt. As you know, the nature of comedy determines the genre variety of comedy. The play “Meteor” is a black comedy-farce, since its main theme is death, and for two acts the […]
Kartashkova F.I., Koroleva V.V. Ways of expressing negative emotions in the works of E. Poe and E.T.A. Hoffmann
The paper deals with verbal and non-verbal ways of expressing the emo-tional state of the characters in literary pieces of E.T.A. Hoffman and E. Poe. In the focus of attention are emotions of fear, terror, anger. They are expressed with the help of words of negative connotation, intensifying particles, interjections, comparative constructions of metaphoric nature. […]
Antsyferova O. Yu. Genre Transformations of Myth in Canongate Myth Series: Pelevin, Winterson, Atwood
The article is a promotional approach to a broader study of the correlation of myth and literature, specific to the 21st century literature. The first three books of the Canongate Myth Series published in 2005 — The Helmet of Horror by Viktor Pelevin, Weight by Jeanette Winterson and The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood — are […]