The interpretation of discourse aims at creating a mechanism that combines all significant elements of the text into a single explanatory structure. In this study, discourse is considered as a set of logical-semantical relations that can be described using a metalanguage. The purpose of the study is an attempt to prove that the automatization of […]
Gorelov O.S. The poetics of birdwatching (preliminary remarks)
The article examines the socio-cultural phenomenon of amateur birdwatching as a poetic-generating structure of a new type of artistic writing and reading practice.The definition of the general features of the literary (primarily poetic) birdwatching optics is based on a comparison with other related optics and types of poets, who take birds into account as a […]
Kashulina E.V. The peculiarities of transformation of “1984” by G. Orwell in the graphic novels by French graphic novel artists
The article discusses two graphic adaptations of the novel “1984”, proposed by the French illustrators and published in 2021. The reasons for the appeal to the classical text in the context of mass culture are investigated and the main types of text transformation in the comic versions of the novel are revealed. A comparative analysis […]
Tyuleneva Е.М. The phenomenon of plastic thinking of a writer-artist: “image of image” in the structure of B. Dyshlenko’s literary text
The article continues a series of the author's studies related to the research of a special type of visual thinking of a writer who is also an artist with direct artistic practice. It is proposed to define this type of thinking as plastic, by analogy with plastic art, emphasizing the characteristic type of work with […]
Poluektova T.A. Women and photography in the Victorian Era (based on the novel “The Romance of a Shop” by Amy Levy)
The article analyzes the sociocultural reality of Victorian England associated with the phenomenon of photography as a new medium and the type of a “new woman”. Both publicistic and fiction style sources are used as research material. Anna Atkins, Julia Cameron, Clementinа Hawarden and others contributed to cultural history not only as the first English […]
Kapustin N.V. On semantic reiterations in Gogol’s prose: from “Evenings…” to “Petersburg Tales”
The article is based on an extract from a short novel «The Night Before Christmas», which was Gogol’s first work of fiction featuring the image of Saint Petersburg.The city is shown through perception of Vakula the locksmith, an inhabitant of Dikanka, and it appears that the aspects of the image are shaped entirely by the […]
Polyakov O.Yu., Shubin K.I. The Image of England in J. Lyttleton’s Series of Essays “Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan”
The article is devoted to an imagological analysis of the series of essays by J. Lyttleton “Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan” (1735), which presents a meta-image of the 18th century England. The conceptual element of Lyttleton’s essay is the technique of “defamiliarization,” a narration from the perspective of a […]