Culture and text 2016 №1
E.V. Budaev
Russian State Professional Pedagogical University
(Ekaterinburg)
A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO POLITICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS
The article highlights some features of the discourse approach to political metaphor analysis in contemporary linguistics. It is argued that in American and European linguistics discourse approach embraces a number of particular theories and methodologies such as critical discourse analysis, descriptive discourse analysis, discursive theory of democratization, discursive analysis of social structures, crisis communication combination theory (CCC-theory), the discursive notion of metaphor. In Russian linguistics a discourse approach to political metaphor analysis is mainly represented by the cognitive-discursive paradigm.
Key words: metaphor, discourse analysis, political discourse, political linguistics.
Т.P. Suhoterina, К.R. Evseeva
Altai State Pedagogical University
(Barnaul)
«СHILDREN’S LETTER» AS A GENRE OF THE RUSSIAN
The article is devoted to “children’s letters” treated as a genre of informal fluent written speech in the framework of a communicative-semiotic model. The article singles out and defines the compositional structure of “children’s letters” and the model components involved in the organization of children’s New Year genre letters to Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost). The study reveals a series of components that are relevant to the genre specificity of the analyzed speech variety.
Keywords: children’s letter, genre, informal fluent written speech, letter to Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost), compositional structure, communicative-semiotic model.
V.D. Denisov
Russian State Hydrometeorological University
(Saint-Petersburg)
ON A LITTLE-RUSSIAN HISTORICAL NOVEL BY NIKOLAI GOGOl
The article is devoted to Nikolai Gogol’s early 1830s attempts to create a Little-Russian historical novel «Getman» and also to its two published pieces, as well as a novelette which can be treated as the epitome of Gogol’s intention to portray a hetman-hero.
Key words: Nikolai Gogol’s early work, a poetic history of Little Russia, the dialogue of cultures, the Cossacks, Gogol’s prose collection «Arabesque», the novel «Getman», «A Chapter from a historical novel», the piece «The Prisoner (Bloody bandurist)», «Chapters from a historical novelette»
S.F. Dmitrenko
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
(Moscow)
THE STORY OF CLOSING DOWN «OTECHESTVENNYE ZAPISKI («PATRIOTIC NOTES»), AND THE TALES BY M.E. SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
Documentary – based, the article examines the circumstances of closing down the journal «Otechestvennye Zapiski» in 1884, and dwells on the character of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s prosaic work after the magazine shutdown. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of the writer’s fairy tales.
Key words: Saltykov Shchedrin, «Otechestvennye Zapiski», censorship, journalism, fairy tale, journal, psychology of creativity.
A.V. Denisova
St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
THE FUNCTIONS OF CHRONOTOP IN «WINTER NOTES ON SUMMER IMPRESSIONS» BY FEDOR M. DOSTOEVSKY
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of chronotop function in the «Winter Notes on Summer Impressions» by Fedor Dostoevsky. The Emphasis is placed on the chronotope of the road and the city. Based on their analysis, the connection of spatio-temporal structure in the journalistic essay with its genre distinctions is stated. It was found that switches from one chronotop to the other lead to a fusion of different genre traditions in the text by F. Dostoevsky.
Key words: «Winter Notes on Summer Impressions», chronotope, genre distinctions, genre tradition.
E.N. Proskurina
Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences,
(Novosibirsk)
SPIRITUAL TRADITION IN ANDREI PLATONOV’S HERITAGE: BETWEEN ATTRACTION AND REPULSION
The article studies the work of Andrei Platonov in the aspect of the Christian spiritual tradition. It reveals the importance of Biblicisms in ontological poetics of the writer. Platonov shows the complexity of relations with the Orthodox tradition that displayed its repulsion in the writer’s early time of creativity, while in his mature years he grew stronger attraction to it.
Key words: Andrei Platonov’s creative work, spiritual tradition in Russian literature, ontological poetics, biblical motives.
O.M. Goncharova
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg)
METAPHYSICS OF NORTH: UNDERSTANDING THE TOPOI OF ETHNIC EXISTENCE
“The metaphysicsof the North” is original not only due to its ties to traditional
thinking practices, but also because its ideological potentials that are realized mainly in literary discourse and reflected in the form of geo-cultural ethnic space that is recreated aesthetically. Understanding the “native lands”or philosophy of ethnic topos in this case is related to the issue of ontology, to defining the truth and the spirit of ethnic existence.
Key words: newly-created written literatures and the philosophy of the North, geo-cultural image, philosophy of topoiin the literary discourse, philosophical toponyms by Yuri Wella.
M.V. Stroganov
Center of local history and ethnography, Moscow State University of Design and Technology
TWO OFFICIALS FROM TVER – M. E. SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN AND N. I. RUBTSOV: RECONSTRUCTION RESULTS
Relations between M. E. Saltykov and N. I. Rubtsov are analyzed in the article in the light of their political standing, N. I. Rubtsov’s views are reconstructed on the basis of indirect data. The relations between Saltykov and Rubtsov were reflected by V. A. Sleptsovin his book of essays “Letters on Ostashkov”
Key words: M. E. Saltykov, N. I. Rubtsov, V. A. Sleptsov, statistics, ethnography, essays.
Culture and text 2016 №2
JERZY FARYNO
Institute of Slavic Studies of Polish Academy of Science
(Warsaw)
IT DEPENDS ON THE LANGUAGE ONE SEE IT
The article focuses on the fact that the meaning, understanding and interpretation of some of the images of visual art depend not only on the cultural code, but also on the natural language in which the viewer recognizes and identifies the image of the object (the same is applied to the artists themselves – they also depict some things in accordance with their natural language). This is shown by the examples of British cartoon character of “a turkey”, Polish, Finnish Easter postcards, Russian toys with the motif of willow catkins and Serbian drawing with the motif of a tulip.
Keywords: Russian bear, turkey, lion, willow, pussy, catkins, Weidenkätzchen, pajunkissakissa, kotki, bazie, lâle, tulip, humorous map, caricature, cartoon, Banat,
Bulgaria, Poland, Serbia, Turkey.
ROMAN BOBRYK
Institute of Polish Philology and Applied Linguistics University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce
THE POET AND THE AUTHORITY
Models of writers’ attitudes in a totalitarian state. Based upon poems of Zbigniew Herbert and Stanisław Barańczak
In Polish literature of the second half of the XXth century (in particular, until the end of the 80’s) one can find numerous examples of mutual relations between writers/poets and authorities – from full compliance and declared support to explicitly declared protest. Such relations are described in the poems of Zbigniew Herbert and Stanisław Barańczak, among others. In Herbert’s poems the acquiescent attitude is judged negatively and the art in the authority’s service is presented as untrue (hypocritical). On the other hand, Barańczak’s poems depict the persecution, intimidating actions on the part of the authorities (ways of
harassment) towards the dissentient poet.
Keywords: the poet and the authority, Zbigniew Herbert, Stanisław Barańczak.
V.D. Denisov
Russian state hydrometeorological University
LITTLE RUSSIAN HISTORICAL NOVEL AND CHAPTERS OF NIKOLAI
GOGOL’S HISTORICAL STORY
The article is devoted to the draft chapters of unfinished historical novel, which might have embodied the idea of Gogol’s Little Russian historical novel about the hero-hetman.
Keywords: the early work of Nikolai Gogol, a poetic history of Little Russia, the historical works by K.F. Ryleev, the dialogue of cultures, the Cossacks, the novel «Get’man», .
B.F. Egorov
St. Petersburg Institute of history, RAS
PUSHKIN AND CHICHIBABIN AS EROTIC POETS
The article deals with the phenomenon of erotic poetry in the dialogue between K. N. Batyushkov – A. S. Pushkin – B. Chichibabin. The analysis of B.Chichibabin’s poem shows the artistic genius of the XXth century poet, that is the birth of spiritual corporality permeated by deep affection.
Keywords: K. N. Batyushkov, A. S. Pushkin, B. Chichibabin, erotic poetry, corporality, synaesthesia, dramatic structure, cinematic properties, spirituality, affection.
N.S. Chizhov
Tyumen State University
THEMATIC AND GENRE PECULIARITY POETIC TEXTS IN BOOK BY S. KOMAROV “THE SATETMENT”
The article reveals unity and dynamics of genre and thematic composition of poetry in the monograph by a Tyumen poet S. Komarov. It defines genetic origins of his work in the Russian poetry of XX century.
Key words: S. Komarov, lyrical subject, idyll, elegy, image of the beloved, theme of death, the context of Russian poetry of XX century.
S.V. Savinkov
Voronezh State Pedagogical University
Voronezh State University
WORD WITH ME AND WORD WITHOUT ME IN THE CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY OF GOGOL
The article discusses the contours and vectors of Gogol’s reflection during the 1840s. The situation of a choice between an artist and preacher demanded that the writer gave fundamentally different answers to the question of what relations should be between a word and its creator.
Keywords: word, personal, impersonal, separation, truth, lie, living, dead.
M.B. Stroganov
Moscow State University of Design and Technology (Institute of Slavonic Culture)
PROVERBS / SAYINGS IN A CONTEMPORARY FAMILY AND A COMMON LAW
During the pre-state period, proverbs and sayings (as a genre of folklore) were coding the unseen rules of the social behavior. Since the period of forming a state and “written rules” proverbs and sayings were relegated to the background of the social life as a common law (customary law) and as an important part of the modern person’s language environment. Nowadays they control the interfamilial life and exist inan opposition to the legal rules. The person’s out-of-home life, which is reflected in proverbs and dayings, deals with people’s social responsibility and social norms. At this point paroemias about the role of words in social contacts take a special place. The person’s conduct in his or her family circle is governed by the rules which are not written anywhere and apparently take their beginning in the high antiquity due to the fact that they are based on a very archaic rule of the force and the right of the first. Besides the common home rules, there are also the rules of keeping connection between parents and children and between husband and wife. The third group of proverbs and sayings formulates not a code of conduct, but rules beyond the human’s power.
Keywords: proverbs, sayings, common law, family folklore.
A.V. Belova
Tver’ State University
WOMEN’S EPISTOLARY CULTURE IN RUSSIA AT THE XVIIIth – XIXth
AND THE XXth – XXIth CENTURIES TURN
In the article the author focuses on the issue of «women’s writing» on the «turn of the century». Comparing the letters of the Russian noblewomen at the turn of the XVIII – XIX centuries with the e-mails of educated women at the turn of XX –XXI centuries, the author reveals the functional features of a modern epistolary culture in comparison with the traditional one.
Keywords: «women’s writing», epistolary culture, women’s daily life, women’s history, gender, Russian noblewomen.
N.M. Abieva
Altai State Pedagogical University
POETICS OF CHEKHOV’S LATEST PROSE: SEMANTIC SHIFT
The article analyzes the poetics of the costume in Chekhov’s latest prose. Semantic shifts: «visual» is replaced by «acoustic» and «olfactory», are the reasons for looking for ways of expressing the complexity, ambiguity of human experience. The multilayer polysemantic detail tying all the «knots» of the narrative, holds the key to the author’s game of the text and the subtext.
Keywords: costume,poetics, motive, text, acoustic olfactory, plastics.
Culture and text 2016 №3
E.A. Osokina
The Russian language Institute. V. V. Vinogradova
the Russian Academy of Sciences (RLI RAS, Moscow)
THE PRECEDENTIALITY AND THE NOVELTY IN DOSTOEVSKY AND WIDER
The article is devoted to the understanding and comparison of the two terms and phenomena in literature and culture – precedent text and postmodernism.
Keywords: Dostoevsky, idioglossarium, precedent text, worldview, postmodernism, antiphenomenon and counter-literature.
R.S.-I. Semykina
Altai State Medical University
F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S ‘REALISM IN ITS DEEPER SENSE’AND V.P.ASTAFIEV’S ‘CRUEL REALISM’: STATING THE PROBLEM
The article is devoted to the common ideas in the literary worlds of F.M. Dostoevsky and V.P. Astafiev. The main peculiarity of Dostoevsky’s discourse is the reflection of a special kind of existence – other-worldliness (dvoemorie) – the interpenetration of common life and being, real and transcendental, temporary and timeless, human and universal. The author shows that the relation of real and superreal is also specifically represented in ‘cruel realism’ of V. Astafiev.
Key words: other-worldliness (dvoemorie), Dostoevsky, Astafiev, ‘realism in its deeper sense’, ‘cruel realism’, crime.
E. Yu. Safronova
Altai State University
PROBLEM OF F. M. DOSTOYEVSKY’S LAW TEXT: P.A. KAREPIN’S CASE
The article considers the problem of a law text of F. M. Dostoyevsky on the example of a business biographeme with P. A. Karepin about the partition of a manor. This semiotically important domestic situation is a paradigm of personal development and productive behavioural model of the author and his heroes.
Key words: Dostoyevsky F. M., semiotics of household behavior, text of behavior, biographic text, biographeme.
S.A. Kibalnik
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)
St. Petersburg State University
“LA DAME Aux Camellias” BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS-Son AND DOSTOEVSKY’S CREATIVE WORK
The article investigates intertextual links of Dostoevsky’s works with West European literature on the level of characterology and plot formation; the peculiarities of the writer’s intertextuality are found out.
Key words: Dostoevsky, intertext, prototext, pretext.
E.A. Fedorova (Garicheva)
Yaroslavl State University Named after P.G. Demidov
VISUAL IMAGES IN HOFFMANN’S SHORT STORY “THE GOLDEN POT”
AND IN F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S NOVEL “THE IDIOT”
The article draws a parallel between the visual images in Hoffmann’s short story “The Golden Pot” and in F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”, shows the similarities between the protagonists – Anselm and Prince Myshkin, who are carriers of the romantic concept of art and life creation. The writers share a common method – fantastic and mystical, symbolization of objects and images.
Keywords: F.M. Dostoevsky, The Idiot, E.T.A Hoffman, The Golden Pot, V.S. Soloviev, Plato, fantasy, mystical, visual images, symbols.
T.G. Magaril-Il’yaeva
The Gorky Institute of World Literature
AN HONEST THIEF: WHO LIVES ON THE WINDOW?
The author considers how Dostoevsky shows connections of the characters, their relationship and the true missions through the specificity of epithets, the symbolism of the window and the meanings of the names.
Key words: Dostoevsky, an honest thief, window, holy spirit, meanings of the names, epithets, grace, benefaction.
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N.O. Bulgakova, O.V. Sedelnikova
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
REPRESENTATION OF THE PORTRAIT OF STAVROGIN IN TRANSLATIONS OF “DEMONS” BY F.M. DOSTOYEVSKY INTO THE FRENCH LANGUAGE: PROBLEM STATEMENT
The article is dedicated to the analysis of particularities of Nicolai Stavrogin’s portrait description in translations of F.M.Dostoyevsky’s novel “Demons” into the French language. The portrait is considered an important element of the poetic and semantic structure of the writer’s novels. The authors make a comparative analysis of the chosen fragments of the novel “Demons”, representing a portrait of Stavrogin, and their translations into the French language. The aim of the work is to reveal peculiarities of representation of Stavrogin’s portrait in the translation of Dostoevsky’s novel “Demons” into the French language.
Key words: F.M. Dostoyevsky, “Demons”, Stavrogin, portrait, literary translation, individual style, the French language, cultural dialogue, Derély, Markowicz.
V.I. Gabdullina
Altai State Pedagogical University
THE “SIBERIAN TEXT” OF DOSTOEVSKY: THE IMAGE OF THE PROVINCE
The article clarifies the definition of «Siberian text of Dostoevsky», the image of the Siberian province in the writer’s perception and description is reconstructed on the basis of such works as «Notes from the Dead House», «Uncle’s Dream» and «The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants» which were written after the return from exile, reflecting memories of Siberia, as well as on the basis of the
letters from Siberia and about Siberia.
Keywords: Siberian text, provincial text, metatext, the autobiographical subtext.
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Culture and text 2016 №4
E.V. Budaev
Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University
COGNITIVE METAPHOR IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION THEORY
The paper deals with the fundamentals of the theory of conceptual integration (blending theory) developed by G. Fauconnier and M. Turner as an alternative to widely spread theory of conceptual metaphor resolved by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson. We consider the concepts of middle spaces, input spaces, generic space, blended space, and integration networks. It is argued that terminology and a specific approach to conceptual metahorization analysis are not the only distinctive features of the theory of blending. The aims of the research claimed within the blending theory show that the theory of conceptual integration does not oppose the theory of conceptual metaphor, but supplements it.
Key words: cognitive metaphor, blending theory, conceptual integration, mental spaces, integration networks.
V.D. Denisov
Russian state hydrometeorological University
URBI ET ORBI: THE “MIRGOROD” COLLECTION
OF NIKOLAI GOGOL (1835)
The article deals with the concept of Gogol’s cycle “Mirgorod”, its creative history, themes and issues, genre features.
Keywords: Gogol’s creativity, the dialogue between the Russian and the Ukrainian cultures, “The evenings on the farm near Dykanka”, “Arabesques”, “Mirgorod”, creative history, romanticism, Kozaques.
S. D. Titarenko
St. Petersburg State University
THE METAGENRE NATURE OF VYACHESLAV IVANOV’S “TALE OF TSAREVICH SVETOMIR” AND THE PROBLEM OF TRADITIONS BLENDING
The article proposes a concept that considers Vyacheslav Ivanov’s “Tale of Tsarevich Svetomir” as a met a genre story. Strategies of blending the traditions of
medieval legends about Holy Grail and hagiography are considered in the article. Similarities of plots, motives and images are analyzed. The hypothesis is made that the legend about Vyacheslav Czech was a hidden source. It is supposed that Vyacheslav Ivanov created a mythological epos as an experimental analogue of religious Slavic fantasy fiction.
Key words: Vyacheslav Ivanov, “Tale of Tsarevich Svetomir”, metagenre, mythological epos, genre archetype, image of an arrow, Holy Grail, Vyacheslav Czech, fantasy fiction.
O. G. Tverdokhleb
Orenburg State Teacher Training University
ACMEIST DECLARATIONS OF S.M. GORODETSKY AND PREDICATIVE USE OF COMPARATIVE WITH COPULA
The article makes an attempt to establish the relations of the linguistic characteristics of S.M. Gorodetsky’s poetry with the basic ideological attitudes of the acmeists, including the requirement of attention to real detail and the requirement of consistency. The author comes to the conclusion that the greatest frequency of comparative in constructions with a copula in S.M. Gorodetsky’spoetry is tied to eclecticism acceptance of the world “in the totality of beauty and ugliness” in modern reality. The results obtained in the work may be interesting for literary scholars, researching the work of S.M. Gorodetsky and the poetry of the Silver Age, and can find application in the practice of compiling the poet’s vocabulary.
Key words: the acmeism, comparative, S.M. Gorodetsky, materiality, a copula, logicality.
N.Yu. Abuzova
Altai State Pedagogical University
MIFOPOETICS OF A.P. PLATONOV’S STORY “DITCH“
The article is devoted to the features of the model of the world in A. Platonov’s story from the position of cosmological idea of the unity of the world. In the article the main motives, images-symbols, plot situations of the story “Ditch” areconsidered.
Keywords: world model, motive, archetype, mytheme.
A.V. Denisova
St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian
Federation
GARCÍA LORCA AND DOSTOEVSKY: THE PROBLEM OF TYPOLOGICAL PARALLELS
The article deals with the typological parallels of Garcia Lorca’s poem “Death of the Moon” and F.M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment.”
Keywords: Dostoevsky’s work, the poetry of Garcia Lorca, the motifs of the death and the moon, the typological parallels, dialogic interaction of cultures.
M.V. Stroganov
Moscow state University of design and technology
MIKHAIL SERGEEVICH BASHILOV AS AN ILLUSTRATOR OF LEO TOLSTOY’S AND MIKHAIL SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S WORKS
Mikhail Sergeevich Bashilov was the first illustrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” and one of the pioneers who illustrated the “Provincial Sketches” of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. Meanwhile, the illustrations of the “War and Peace” were not published during his lifetime because Tolstoy denied the idea of publishing the illustrated novel. Yet the failure of such a decision was declared as Bashilov’s fault.The illustrations of the “Provincial Sketches” were not approved by Saltykov as his manner had changed by the 1860s when the illustrations appeared. Descendants appreciate Bashilov as the book illustrator, but nevertheless he is out of the history of the Russian illustration.
Key words: Mikhail Bashilov, “War and Peace”, Leo Tolstoy, “Provincial Sketches”, Mikhail Saltykov, illustration.
О. Voronicheva
Bryansk State Engineering Technological University
THE ARTISTIC COMPONENT OF SOCIOCULTURAL SPACE OF THE CITY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF BRYANSK)
Artistic space of Bryansk is analyzed as the reflection of social and economic changes in the Russian society. Changes in the last decades indicate the activization of the processes of regional identity search on the background of commercialization of art. Artistic culture of Bryansk is presented as a holistic and dynamic formation integrating the phenomena of classical and avant-garde art.
Keywords: urban artistic culture, art, dynamics, Bryansk, values, society.
Tolstokorova Alissa V.
Independent analytical centre
(Kyiv)
A FEMALE IN A PHAETON: FEMALE GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY AND SPATIAL EMANCIPATION IN FICTION OF ART NOUVEAU ERA
The paper sets out the problem of the socio-cultural implications of such an important but underconceptualized historical process as the acquisition of spatio-physical freedom in the public sphere by women and their en masse geographic mobility on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It also traces the reflection of this process in the fiction of the art nouveau period. The concept of female spatial emancipation is introduced to reach this aim.
Key words: female spatial emancipation, geographic mobility, new girl, new woman, private and public spaces.
E.N. Proskurina
Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ECHOES OF THE LITERARY AVANT-GARDE IN THE NEWSPAPER “LITERARY SIBERIA” (1933–1934)
The article presents general information about the little-known Siberian edition of the newspaper «Literary Siberia». The newspaper was published in Novosibirsk in 1933–1934. The compliance of the editorial policy of the newspaper with the ideological platform of the method of socialist realism is demonstrated. Special attention is focused on the analysis of the poetics of two rare exceptions to the general rule where the echoes receding into the past of the literary avant-garde represented by the poems «Letter to a friend» by V. Nepomnyashchikh and «ТВС» by Eduard Bagritsky are heard.
Keywords: Siberian periodicals, newspaper «Literary Siberia», the method of socialist realism, the literary avant-garde.
T. A. Ilyina
Tver State University
TRIPS AND EXCURSIONS IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ENVIRONMENT
(the analysis of archival and published documents of tver teacher
training school for women named after P.P. Maksimovich)
The article analyzes archival and published sources, reflecting the role of trips and tours in the educational process of Tver teacher training school for women named after P.P. Maksimovich and stored in the Scientific library of Tver state University.
Keywords: Tver women’s teaching school named after P.P. Maksimovich, Maksimovich school, travel, pre-revolutionary school, the pre-revolutionary school environment, tours, excursions, archival documents.
Culture and text 2015 № 1
V.N. Sazhin
St. Petersburg
L. DOBYCHIN: NEW MATERIALS FOR THE WRITER’S BIOGRAPHY AND LITERARY WORK
In his article, V.N. Sazhin discusses new materials, related to Dobychin’s life and work, that he recently found in several Russian archives. Among these materials are Dobychin’s correspondence with the editors of “Russkij Sovremennik” magazine and his autograph of the short story “Old Women in Small Town” (1924); an application form filled in by Dobychin when joining the Russian Union of Writers (1930); Dobychin’s letters to writer Leontiy Rakovsky; the last autographs of the short stories “Paramedic”, “Petrov” and “Father” (1930) belonging to Rakovsky’s personal archive; special reports of state security agents containing Soviet writers’ judgments of Dobychin’s work and fate (1936-1937), which significantly contribute new information to the previous publications of similar documents, and several other archival discoveries.
Keywords: Dobychin’s newly discovered autographs, newly discovered letters and short stories by Dobychin, information about the writer in the special reports of state security agents.
A.F. Belousov
St. Petersburg
ADDENDA TO V. SAZHIN’S ARTICLE: TEXTOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE AUTOGRAPHS DONATED BY DOBYCHIN TO RAKOVSKY
Autographs of the short stories that Dobychin donated to writer Leontiy Rakovsky, advance our understanding the origin of these texts. Thus, our understanding of these issues is furthered by the new insights on the singular corrections in the short stories “Paramedic” and “Palmistry” (the latter was initially titled “Petrov”), the full text of the early revision of the short story “Father,” and the recently discovered source of the first publication of the short story “The Portrait.”
Keywords: Autograph, version, redaction, correction, publication.
E.S. Golubeva
Bryansk
TWO OLGA DOBYCHIN’S PHOTOGRAPHS
The article presents two photo portraits of the writer’s sister Olga Dobychin (1897 — ?). They were taken during her studies at Emperor Nicolas I Orphan Institute in Moscow. Terseness and precision of the inscription on Olga’s later photo and her signature remind of style and graphic art of Leonid Dobychin.
Keywerds: Olga Dobychin, graduate of a state boardinghouse, inscription, style, family resemblance.
E.S. Golubeva
Bryansk
“ENCOUNTERS WITH LIZ” (The Character and Her Prototype)
Many of L. Dobychin’s characters refer to real people who lived in a real town of Bryansk of the 1900-1920s. The most feminine character from Dobychin’s short story “Encounters with Liz” had her prototype, the wife of the writer’s colleague, Olga Poyarkov. They in fact share many features in their looks, ideas and biography facts. The same can be applied to other characters in the short story, such as Fishkina, Zolotukhina. In this respect, epigraphic words by V. Bakhtin stating lack of prototypes to the characters do not seem quite true.
Keywords: character, prototype, Liz Kuritsyna, Elisaveta Poyarkova, Fishkina, Frumkina, Bryansk.
V.A. Meshkoff
Yevpatoriya
THE BORIAEV FAMILY IN THE YEVPATORIYA PLOTLINE OF «THE TOWN OF N» AND REALITY
Yevpatoriya plotline of «The Town of N», connected with the family of engineer Karmanov, must be cognized on the basis on archival documents of the novel’s prototypes: engineer Boriaev, his widow and son. The article offers a historical confirmation of the fascinating chronologism and factuality of the Yevpatoriya plotline, as well as of the entire Dobychin’s novel.
Keywords: the Karmanovs, engineer Boriaev, summer cottage purchase, documents, realia, chronologism.
I.E. Loshchilov
Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk
«THE MATCHMAKERS’ DANCE» AND THE POSTCARDS DEDICATED TO LEO TOLSTOY’S DEATH (Two Notes)
The article indicates the visual origin of two images in Dobychin’s prose. The postcards, dedicated to Leo Tolstoy’s death, mentioned in Dobychin’s novel «The Town of N» (1935), are, in fact, reproductions of the two paintings by a Polish painter Jan Styka (1858–1925): «On the Road to Infinity» and «The Excommunicated». These postcards were printed in Paris after 1910. The painting «The Matchmakers’ Dance» mentioned in the short story «Konopatchikova» (1926), was made by artist Konstantin Yuon (1875–1958); it was reproduced in the «Niva» magazine in 1913. Identification of these original images is an important contribution to our understanding of the artistic method of Dobychin’s prose and its poetics.
Keywords: Leonid Dobychin, Leo Tolstoy, visuality, postcards, reproductions, Konstantin Yuon, Jan Styka, historicism
A.F. Belousov
St. Petersburg
THE LITTLE CHAPEL IN MEMORY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST’ BEHEADING
The article discusses the motives underlying the erection of the little chapel by Widow A.L. Vagel in Leonid Dobychin’s novel “The Town of N”. It is posited that the idea behind this project is to unite the Russian Orthodox population of the township and confront Catholicism. The author of the article points out the connection between the cross-confessional-conflict in the novel and the historical events of the 18th century Poland. Discovering this new parallel helps us realize the historical and cultural complexity of the novel.
Keywords: chapel, St. John the Baptist’s beheading, crossconfessional conflict, commemoration of Russian Orthodox warriors, historical parallel.
M.V. STROGANOV
Tver State University
NEVER MEETING LIZ: ON PORTRAYING A MAN FROM THE MASSES IN DOBYCHIN’S SHORT STORIES
Short stories prior to “The City of N” are analyzed as a whole with the main focus on the absence of the event which had been the main object of representation in the classical fiction. The “Encounters with Liz” collection represents the ‘event’ of ‘non-eventfulness’ while in the “Portrait” collection we come across either the ‘before-event’ or the ‘pseudo-event’. Everything happening to the protagonist he identifies as the event, well aware of the lack of any eventfulness in his own life and yearning about this fact. Movies and swimming make up for the absence of real events in life. The time of non-eventfulness when the characters yearn for the event appears to be the period of blindness for them, and it is the flash of the event that heals their eyesight of the main character.
Keywords: plot, event, recreation as substitute to ‘the event’.
S.I. KOROLEV
Moscow
SILENCE AND PARALIPSIS IN L. DOBYCHIN’S PROSE
Leonid Dobychin is not only a man of letters, but also a master of paralipsis. He is rather taciturn in his prose and uses words carefully and economically. The message of Dobychin’s texts is not stated overtly, one has to read “between the lines”. Thus, Dobychin plays a game with his reader, which makes it exciting to read his stories and impels the reader to reread his prose time and again.
Keywords: Leonid Dobychin, silence, paralipsis, implication, author, reader, character.
Culture and text 2015 №2
G.M. Vasilyeva
Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management
THE BEGINNING OF THE NOVEL: «THE RETURN OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS» IN E.L. MINDLIN’S PROSE
The article touches upon an unfinished novel by Mindlin in which the writer violates the typical model of the genre. The small form of the novel is made by eight short chapters. The term “novel” becomes an axiological definition. The writer introduces the reader to a clear-cut axiological system. The writer created his destiny as a journey to the world of hidden entities. The main purpose of this motion for Mindlin was the idea of ideas: the lost old age of rejuvenated Faustus, “a cup drunk to the dregs”. Mindlin’s unfinished novel features paleontological construction: reconstruction of the early “mythological” basis by analyzing the recent events. Such dependence can be shown within a broader cultural context. For example, Acts of the Martyrs with their martyrdom topic, intercultural discourse by G.G. Shvittau associated with Goethe’s notion of Weltliteratur; image of Ch. F. Nicolai – Goethe’s contemporary writer. Three cities – Moscow, Prague and Berlin – became a kind of theatrical stage to enact the drama of ideas (eschatological theme of “non-eternal city” etc.). “The Return of Doctor Faustus” lays a sort of mnemonic power – “recollecting” potential. Mindlin expressed in his myth of Faustus that direct communication in which he lived and was thinking. A conceptualsemantic shift was made – towards the conversation between poets. The conversation began long ago, is incompletable and cannot be broken forever. There is always some space left for the resumption of the mysteries of the conversation, which is filled with the knowledge and teaching. It contains the poetics of abstinence from death: death does not exist before the end of the story. Literature confronts nothingness. The conversation is the idea and the reality, a mobile semantic form, a form a dynamic context. This feature is embodied in Mindlin’s real communication and texts. Therefore, in the suggested analysis the article writer applies to the method of personalized comparison and the search of implicit parallels in personal biographies.
Keywords: organicity of life, unusual, loss of old age, geometry, deception, three cities.
Yu. V. Kholodkova
Penza State University
THOMAS HOOD’S TRADITIONS IN THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF XIXth – BEGINNING OF XXth CENTURY
The article presents a comparative analysis of creative traditions founded by an English poet Thomas Hood reflected in Russian literature and culture of the second half of XIXth – early XXth century. Under analysis are materials related to the activities of Russian poets, as well as masters of painting and drama. T. Hood’s traditions can be found not only in the Russian poetry of the second half of XIXth – early XXth century but also in prose of Russian writers of this period (N.G. Chernyshevsky’s “What Is to Be Done?” F.M. Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”). Thomas Hood’s name appeared in the Russian press and in translated prose. Thomas Hood’s creative traditions reflected in Russian literature and culture of the second half of the XIXth – early XXth century are quite numerous and at the same time, they are very biased. Turning to Hood’s texts was a kind of “marker” of Russian writers and artists’ social position of the time, although their attention was drawn not to the English author’s creative work in general but to some of his socially loaded poems, and first of all The Song of the Shirt, and to a less extent – The Bridge of Sighs, The Lady’s Dream, The Lay of the Labourer which were in tune with people’s aspirations of that time.
Keywords: Thomas Hood, poetry, painting, drama, reception, the Russian-English historic and cultural ties, and literary connections, artistic detail.
E.N. Stroganova
Tver State University
E.V. NOVOSILTSEVA AS A HISTORIAN OF THE PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1812
The paper dwells on the collector’s work by Ekaterina Vladimirovna Novosiltseva (T. Tolycheva), who compiled a set of oral short stories told by the common folk (1850–1880). Special consideration is paid to the main memorial themes and motives, characteristic of informants’ attitude towards the events and the emotional content of the short stories.
Key words: oral short stories, war ethnography, everyday life, ‘concealed affection of the patriotism’, relations with the French.
S.M. Teleguin
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
GARDEN IN THE ALCHEMICAL TRADITION
The paper is devoted to the analysis of relation between the alchemical discourse and phenomenon of the garden. The article touches upon such themes as Labyrinth, Flower, Gardening, Door, Key, and Talisman. The writer treats the alchemical garden as a specific syncretic phenomenon and attempts to analyse the features of the “bird language”. The article traces the relation of alchemical tradition with modern life.
Key words: Alchemy, Garden, Talisman, Hortulanus, Bird Language.
D.V. Denisov
Samara state University of railway engineering
HOLISTIC APPROACH TO NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
The 25-element scheme of “office romance” dating back to research in professional communication interaction that was started by Yu.M. Lotman, B.F. Egorov, M.B. Ignatiev on the basis of V.Ya. Propp’s fairy tale research, is analysed on the background of 25-element scheme of Existence in sankhya, the Old Indian enumerationist philosophy, and in other contexts.
Key words: enumerationist philosophy, narrative elements, basic plot components, Russian fairy tale, stages of professional communication, textoid, operations management.
G.V. Kukueva
Altai State Pedagogical University
O.V. Minina
Altai State Pedagogical University
SPEECH GENRE “PEOPLE’S MEMOIRS” IN THE INTERNETBASED COMMUNICATION (OUTLINING THE PROBLEM)
The article deals with people’s memoirs as speech genre in aesthetic sphere of the internet-communication. The virtual memoirs as a genre has become quite important and communicative-winning of speech genres, being used for the purpose of self-expression and speaking creativity. Its belonging to electronic discourse, as well as its being defined by an Internet writer, causes modification of memoir genre as compared to the traditional genre of memoires.
Key words: Internet-based communication, speesh genre, Internet genre, memoirs, Internet-discourse, virtual genre studies.
M.A. Buryakov
Ishim
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ONE HISTORICAL FORM OF EXPRESSING EMOTIONAL STATES IN OLD RUSSIAN
Comparing the meaning of verbs of perception and general feelings, the author states a “threefold” nature of their grammatical subject, which contains three semantic component (the subject of thought, the subject will, and subject of the action), which become actualized depending on the nature of relations between the sentence subject and verb meaning. In case of identical relations the subject is realized as the Agent in the “nominative” sentence structure, and if the relations are possessive – as the Beneficiary (the Subject of the Volition) in the “Dative-Case” sentrnce structure. The author finds the same relationship between subject and verb are in the semantic opposition known in comparative linguistics as “nonresultative” and “resultative” perfect. Old Russian texts show that the regular form to express emotional state was “nominative” emotional construction similar to the “non-result” verb perfect, in which the experiencer of emotion carries three semantic functions but as Agent, without having the role of Subject of Volition. Devoid of subject motivation, emotional states were expressed in Old Russian as a mimic and vocal responses to external stimuli.
Key words: threefold nature of grammatical subject, the subject of thought, the subject of volition, and subject of the action, Agent and Beneficiary, “nominative” and “dative” sentence structures, non-resultative and resultative perfect, “nominative” emotional construction.
N.M. Abieva
Altay State Pedagogical University
HATS, CAPS AND UMBRELLAS: COSTUME DETAILS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS IN A. CHEKHOV’S PROSE
The article is devoted to the poetics of costume details in Chekhov’s short stories («The Princess», «Terror (My Friend’s story)», «Three Years», «My Life (The Story of a Provincial)»). The analysis of Chekhov’s prose highlites a number of functions played by characters’s costumes, for example: first, the costumes simulate the structure of the story, and second, they form in a story the implication by hidden motives. The author shows the polysemy, subtextuality of the costume in Chekhov’s prose.
Keywords: costume, details, archetype, motive, intertextuality, polysemantism, polyfunctionalism.
Culture and text 2015 №3
JERZY FARYNO
Poland, Warsaw / Warszawa
HOW A YOUNG BUTTON-GIRL FOUND HERSELF IN A HANGMAN’S NOOSE (METAPHORISATION – REALIZATION OF A METAPHOR – METAMORPHOSES – REMAKING)
The article analyses Felix Krivin’s two-plot miniature „Gossip” from the point of view of semantic coherence between the assumed real plot and its fairy tale realization. The author shows what one should know and what language should be spoken so that both plots could be understood. This is the reason for comparing semiotics of different types of transformations: spell of a fairy tale, vegetative metamorphoses, remaking, remaking, reforging, remelting, modification (in gossip), metaphor realization, sense (symbolic) paradigmatics. The Supplement gives the examples of visualization of such paradigms on the basis of city sculptures (buttons, needle, sewing), botanical drawings, still lifes in painting and icons depicting Madonna and Child, Madonna Lactans, Nursing, Breastfeeding Madonna.
Keywords: Felix Krivin, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Bulgakov, Claes Oldenburg, Henrik Ibsen, Victor Nunes, René Magritte, Banksy, button, Button-Molder, needle, thread, pomegranate, nut, smoking pipe, metaphorization, metaphor realization, metamorphoses, witchcraft, remaking, reforging, remelting, sculpture, installation, botanical drawing, still life, Madonna with Child, Madonna Lactans.
V.D. Denisov
Russian state hydrometeorological University
N.V. GOGOL’S “ARABESQUES”: GENESIS AND STRUCTURE
The article is devoted to the features of the genesis and structure of the collection «Arabesques» (1835) by Nikolai Gogol, his creative method, the embodiment of the dialogue between Russian and Ukrainian cultures.
Keywords: Gogol’s creativity in mid-1830s, the dialogue between Russian and Ukrainian cultures, the poetic story of Little Russia, «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka», Ukrainian Cossacks, the collection of «Arabesques» as the author’s almanac.
S.D. Titarenko
St. Petersburg State University
«THE RHYTHMIC MAGIC» OF A.S. PUSHKIN’S «BRONZE HORSEMAN» IN VYACH. IVANOV’S AND SYMBOLIST’S POETICS (FROM THE EIDOS SOUND – TO TEXTUALISM STRATEGY)
The article is devoted to the problem of reception of the semantic nature of sound symbols of A.S. Pushkin’s poem «Bronze Horseman». The authors’ strategies of a sound mythologization in theoretical and practical work of Vyach. Ivanov, Andrey Bely, V. Bryusov, A. Blok are considered. It is shown that the Russian poets-symbolists considered Pushkin’s poetry and the poem «Bronze Horseman» as an important source of a sound suggestive image which has the archaic nature and is connected with traditions of magic ritual poetry.
Keywords: Pushkin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Andrey Bely, Russian Symbolism, sound image, suggestiya, sound as acoustic code, sound as esthetic object, sound and ritual, sound as language, sound as symbolical image.
G.M. Vasilyeva
Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management
FAUST IN THE SECOND FIVE-YEAR PLAN ERA, OR CREATION MYTH
It is a matter of the fairy tale «It can’t be true», published in 1935 in the German language. The writer returned to the fairy tale three times. He might have made the translation himself. The German version of the work is a supplementary text to «The beginning of the novel “The Return of Doctor Faust”». It focuses on the real event – the construction of Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. Creating the fairy tale the writer appealed to the folk and literary tradition. The rhetorical-heroic pathos of the work, the fabulous and the incredible are connected with the reality. The character’s travelling is a logically completed story which consists of several phases of the spiritual searching. The fairy tale is characterized by the minimum of language means. It is formed on the principle of hiding a part of the theme, kept in the word «Faust». The similar play resembles the internal search for the word meaning, the transderivational search (through the derivative, to the language basis). The fairy tale becomes a part of the complex allegory of an esoteric type. Extensive symbolic material allows to build the finest ideological constructions. The characters’ names Ivan Kuzmich and Nikita Fedorovich can be connected with the «Feodor Kuzmich’s mystery» – the story of Alexander I transformation. Home is not only the «live», «organic» ancestors’ tradition, but also the dynastic, feudal conception. It is ruled by the indisputable power. The writer connects the fairy tale with the materials on the historical semantics of the word combination «historical optimism». It’s characterized by the declarative solidarity with Voltaire’s story «Candide, or Optimism». Candide sets out to find happiness. In spite of hardships and temptations he remains an optimist in the Leibnizian sense: «we must cultivate our garden». The Soviet literature could have taken Voltaire’s irony as referring to itself.
Key words: organicity of life; miracles; soul wandering.
E.N. Proskurina
Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
POETICS OF THE ESCHATOLOGICAL PLOT IN THE NOVELS BY G. GAZDANOV
The article is devoted to the analysis of G. Gazdanov’s eschatological poetics. The author’s dramatic emotional experience of the catastrophical essence of human history and being is based on the conviction that the history of the mankind started “on the day when Cain slew his brother”, i.e. at that very moment when a human being perceived “the appeal of murder” in his own nature. Meanwhile, Gazdanov ranks peculiarly in the historical and literary context of the young emigration. The author’s artistic strategy is marked by an optimistic stoicism uncharacteristic of the generation’s self-consciousness. His entire literary route represents the overcoming of tragic sensation of being.
Keywords: novels by G. Gazdanov, plot poetics, literary motif, eschatology
E.A. Moskovkina
Altai State Academy of Culture and Arts
ZAKHAR PRILEPIN’S NOVEL “SANKA”: BETWEEN TENDENTIOUSNESS AND CONFESSION
The article attempts to examine Z. Prilepin’s novel “Sanka” in the aspect of psychopoetics. The object of the literary analysis is the psychological plan of the novel in paradoxical combination with the ideological program of his prose.
Keywords: modern prose, ideology, political issues, psychopoetics, text, motive, poetics, infantilism
N.Yu. Abuzova
Altai State Pedagogical University
CATASTROPHIC COMPLEX IN F.I. TYUTCHEV’S POEMS
The article considers the problem of catastrophism in F.I. Tyutchev’s lyrics from the point of view of the literary tradition marked in the poetry of the XVIII century by the subject of time, by Tyutchev’s poetic outlook. The motive of completeness of the world is allocated as fundamental.
Keywords: world model, time, space, day, night, chaos, vision, accident.
Y.V. Kholodkova, S.V. Izvekova
Penza State University
FROM PAST INTO PRESENT: THE SPECIFICITY OF THE REVIVAL INTEREST TO THOMAS HOOD IN THE POSTSOVIET RUSSIA
The growth of interest to Thomas Hood’s art in the last decades has been caused by the change in the perception of his art. The translators are interested not in social but in humorous and lyrical poems. Except his few works the majority were first interpreted in these years in the Russian language. Widely used in the Internet Hood’s lyric poem «To a False Friend», interpreted totally fifteen times turned out to be in tune with the modern world perception, the development of individualistic attitudes accompanied by increased feeling of loneliness in the world, transience and fragility of feelings, insincerity as a characteristic of relations between beloved people.
Keywords: Thomas Hood, poetry, perception, Russian-English historic cultural and literary connections, artistic detail.
E.V. Mikhalkova
Tyumen State University
ON DEATH AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE TRANSLATION OF T.S. ELIOT’S POEM “WHISPERS OF IMMORTALITY” INTO RUSSIAN
Translation of poetic texts is a significant issue in theoretical and applied translation sudies. And it did not spare the poetic heritage of Thomas Stearns Eliot. His complex, expressive language, rich and full of allusions, and undersurface meaning creates a lot of difficulties in translation. In this article, three translations of T.S. Eliot’s poem “Whispers of immortality” into Russian are observed, considering the conceptual plan of the original text and how it is retained in the translation. The authors analyze the expression of lexical semantic fields of death, philosophy, and passion in the English and Russian texts and come to the conclusion that the translation was influenced by the cultural background of the translators and their desire to connect the themes of immortality and physicality, so that the poem would look whole and produce a strong emotional effect. As a result, the reader may get a false impression that Eliot did not see philosophy as a path to immortality, but as a sensual passion for death – we strive to demolish this myth by our study.
Keywords. Modernism, T.S. Eliot, “Whispers of immortality”, Metaphysical poets, translation of a poetic text.
Y.P. Izotova
Altai State Pedagogical University
A GASTRONOMIC JOURNEY TO STUDENT FOLKLORE
This article deals with the semantics of the food in the student texts of folklore, therefore, attempts to highlight the major food components of the student cuisine are made. The alcoholic motive in the student’s song, principles of its creation and its general trend are considered.
Keywords: University folklore, student’s song, home student anecdote, alcoholic motive.
G.P. Kozubovskaja
Altai State Pedagogical University
E.A. BORATYNSKY’S POETICAL PHILOSOPHY: BORDERS OF THE BEING
The article investigates some mythopoetical motives forming “the uncommon expression of the face” of E.A. Boratynsky’s lyrics. The semantics of mythologemes “the first” and “the last” depicting universal principles of the Being in linking its “endings” and “beginnings” as well as mythological and literary archetypes of visual image of old age as E.A. Boratynsky’s dominant gerontological motive are analyzed. Mythopoetics of Number “two” (Boratynsky’s numerological code) is also shown in its modeling and space constructing functions and ambivalent semantics.
Keywords: archetype, borders of the being, gerontology, mythopoetics, numerology, poetic philosophy, Number.
Culture and text 2015 №4
A.P. Auer
Moscow State Socio-Humanitarian University
EVOLUTION OF M. SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S POETICS
The article is devoted to consequent analyses of structural changes in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s poetics. The author demonstrates the process of transition from lyrics to denunciatory novels, authorial cycle, satirical epic literature, novel-parable, flash fiction and prose with the elements of symbolic poetics.
Key words: poetics, evolutionary dynamism, “aesthetic sensibility”, authorial cycle, epic chronotope, satirical grotesque, novelparable, minor forms, flash fiction.
E.N. Stroganova
State Academy of Slavic Сulture (Moscow)
M.E. SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN AND ANTIQUE LITERATURE
M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s making reference of antique authors in his prose has not yet attracted researchers’ attention. Meanwhile, he frequently mentions antique authors and cites their works in his prose. Antique literature happens to be a source of Saltykov’s poetics, which becomes obvious in the light of satire theory elaborated by M.M. Bakhtin in relation to the category of genre memory. In this perspective, the article views the novel “Modern Idill” (“Sovremennaya idilliya”), which generally agrees to Bakhtin’s commentary on Menippean satire.
Keywords: antique literature, M.M. Bakhtin, “the genre memory”, laughter, “Modern Idill”, Menippean satire, the source of the poetics.
E.A. Buzko
Moscow
SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S OPINION ON SLAVOPHILIA
The article discusses Saltykov’s relation to the Slavophilist trend in Russian philosophy, the writer’s dialogue with major figures of Slavophilia, with the Aksakovs family in particular. The article author’s special attention is paid to the difference in the novelist’s attitude to the early and late periods of Slavophilia.
Keywords: Slavophilia, Westernism, Pochvennichestvo (Return to the Soil), Old Believers, official ideology, peasant commune, idyllic outlook, ascetic outlook.
M.V. Stroganov
State Academy of Slavic Сulture (Moscow)
FOLK SONG, I.V. PAVLOV AND SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S NOVEL “THE SUITOR”
The article deals with Saltykov-Shchedrin’s novel “The Suitor” whose text is saturated with folk songs. Their accurate identification shows that the writer selected the songs that had a certain reputation in literature. The cult of folk songs typical of 1850s had a special support among young Slavophiles, and even more so was it maintained by “young editors” in the “Moskvityanin” magazine. The novel’s dedication to I.V. Pavlov, the publisher of the “Moskovsky Vestnik” (Moscow Gazette), helps us to realize that Pavlov’s and Saltykov-Shchedrin’s ideological standing was the opposite of Slavophilia, which is reflected in the selection of songs.
Keywords: I.V. Pavlov, a folk song, Slavophilia, radicalism, literary joke, “Moskovityanin”, “young editors”.
S.M. Shavrygin
Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University
“RIVER” IN THE STRUCTURE OF SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S “NEW LANGUAGE” OF LITERATURE
The «River» as the mythopoetic symbol and the element of the «new language of literature» appeared in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s «Provincial Essays» and in the later works of the Vyatka period, first – as a poetic image associated with the tradition of Gogol and later as an image reinterpreted, transformed according to Saltykov’s worldview. This poetic image developed during the 1860s and then was transformed into a universal eschatological character in «The History of a Town».
Keywords: Literature space, mythopoetics, image, fantasy, metaphor, symbol, irony, evangelical motives.
T.N. Golovina
Ivanovo
THE TOWN OF GLUPOV’S THURST FOR POWER AND LOVE OF AUTHORITY IN BIBLICAL CONTEXT
The article shows that the problem of power and people in “The History of a Town” is revealed with a focus on the Bible in its interpretation of the Old Believers. The characters of mayors of the town of Glupov encroaching on the prerogatives of the divine, and the characters of their subjects storing their “stubborn love for authority”, correspond to the Old Believers’ views on the false gods (idols) and idolaters. The punishment for apostasy is “the kingdom of those abandoned by God” (N.A. Berdyaev), the tragic awareness of this permeating the works of Old Believers and “The History of a Town”.
Keywords: “The History of a Town”, the Bible, Old Believers, the nature of the secular power, false gods, idolaters.
O.G. Zimina
Tver State United Museum
ON THE 40-TH ANNIVERSARY OF SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN’S TVER MUSEUM
This paper refers to creating Saltykov-Shchedrin’s museum in Tver, organizing museum collections, searching for the concept and design of the exposition, and mentions the main aspects of its operations for the 40 years of its existence.
Keywords: museum, collection, exposition, creative team, conception, researchers, decorators, Kerzelli, Chumakov.
Culture and text 2015 №5
Roman Bobryk
Instytut Filologii Polskiej i Lingwistyki Stosowanej, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach Institute of Polish Language and Literature and Applied Linguistics, University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOTIVES IN ZBIGNIEW HERBERT’S WORKS (introductory remarks)
The article poses a theoretical problem of the autobiographic in lyric poetry. The way the poems by a Polish poet Z. Herbert are discussed in the article demonstrates that the biographical key in the studies of Herbert’s works will never result in an accurate reading of his texts. The article writer touches upon some disputable points in the interpretation of his lyric poems and traces the mechanics of substituting the ‘fictitious’ or ‘poetic’ by the ‘autobiographic’.
Keywords: autobiographism, literary communication, motive, literary biography.
V.D. Denisov
Russian state hydrometeorological University Saint-Petersburg
THE COLLECTION OF NIKOLAI GOGOL «ARABESQUE»: А PLANS AND THE IMPLEMENTATION
The article is devoted to the creative history of the collection of Nikolai Gogol «Arabesque» (1835), the analysis of preliminary plans, the embodiment of dialogue Russian and Ukrainian cultures.
Keywords: Gogol’s creativity mid-1830s, the dialogue of Russian and Ukrainian cultures, the poetic story of Little Russia, «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka», Ukrainian Cossacks, the collection of «Arabesque» as the author’s Almanac, the creative story.
S.D. Titarenko
St. Petersburg State University
RUSSIAN SYMBOLISM AND TRADITIONS OF ENGLISH PRE-RAPHAELITES: ISSUES OF INTERMEDIALISM
The article writer examines the strategies of intermedialism in Russian symbolist poetry, which were incited by the English Pre-Raphaelite painters. The aim of the article is to show that ecphrasis as an image in a real poem becomes the core element in the symbolic language capable of determining the visuality of an artistic image. In the article, the writer defines the leading symbols of Pre-Raphaelites, who had a great influence on Russian symbolists creating their transintermedial imagery. The writer touches upon the transformation of artistic images belonging to D.G. Rossetti in the works of Alexander Blok and Viacheslav Ivanov.
Keywords: intermedialism, English Pre-Raphaelites, Russian symbolists, visuality, ecphrasis, transintermedial symbolic image, mythopoetics.
S.A. Golubkov
Samara State University
ON TWO EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERARY ANIMALISM
The article deals with the functions of animalistic imagery in literature. The object of study is two literary texts – a short story by F. M. Dostoyevsky “The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident” and a short story “Crocodile” by a twentieth century writer M. Kozyrev. Zoonyms have quite a number of expressive functions. In the analyzed stories, the images become animalistic versions of anecdotal circumstances.
Keywords: animalism, the bestiary, zoonym, plot, comical situation, alogism, absurdity, F. Dostoyevsky, M. Kozyrev.
G.M. Vasilyeva
Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management
SEMPERVERO, BORN CHETVERIKOV: LITANY TO THE POET’S NAME
The article discusses the work by Sempervero, an unknown writer and translator of the 19th century. Chetverikov by his birth, he uses the Latin-Italian form of an assumed name with some musical etymology. For him, “entire Italy” was imprinted in the phrase sempre vero, ‘always true’ in Italian. The idea of a creative mission associated itself with the enactment of the measure of truth as a test. He was one of those who laid the foundations of criticism and didactics of translation. His translation skills are tagged with features of an independent research area. They exists in the form of practicing interpreter’s reflection, the one’s who is trying to understand his work. The poet expressed the Cartesian principle of the universality of thought, which can be adequately expressed by means of any language. Translating the tragedy of Goethe, Sempervero worked not purely with the German original, but with a “macro text”. Such “polygenesis” resulted in a stylistically heterogeneous text. Along with his translation of “Faustus” Sempervero offers samples of other translations: Russian, French, and English. The fundamental feature of that publication was the use of body of texts, not just one “canonical” text. The poet was aware that there cannot be real full-scale art without an honest professional response to it. Each entry resembles a text variant. These variants are quite different from, for example, editions of the literary texts created by the same person. Like folklore, a text lives in constant motion, and change. It cannot be understood and studied, if recorded only once. So, some literary fabric is made as an integral process, as a sprawl of initial structure, that is clothed in new translations.
S.M. Teleguin
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
ALCHEMY AS A BOOK OF MIRRORS
The article analyzes the relationship between the alchemical discourse and mirror phenomenology. The deep core idea of alchemy and mirrors is the desire to master unlimited resources – the breakthrough from discretely deterministic world into the space of unlimited scope. The article deals with basic alchemical approach to the mirror phenomenon. Mirror alchemy creates multiple ways to go beyond oneself. At this point, the alchemical transfiguration could be realized.
Keywords: Alchemy. Mirror.
S.A. Kibalnik
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) St. Petersburg State University
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Once again on Pushkin’s poem “LAND AND SEA”)
The article dwells upon the poem «Land and Sea» (1821) by Alexander Pushkin in terms of its literary sources. Challenging the position on this issue that was expressed in Alexander Dolinin’s article accepted by “Pushkin’s Encyclopedia” the author points out that this new position is not based on the detailed comparative analysis of all texts. The dominant part of Moutonnet de Clairfons’s translation as a source of Pushkin’s poem remains only declared but is not proved.
Keywords: Pushkin, idyll, a source, transfer, textual.
N.M. Abieva
Altay State Pedagogical University
«A HUNTING ACCIDENT»: THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF THE COLOR SPECTRUM
The article is devoted to the semiotics of the costume in early Chekhov’s story «A Hunting Accident». The analysis of the costume’s senses allows to select a few functions of the costume’s color: the color marks the hypostasis of the characters, forms the subtextuality and the intertextual links.
Keywords: costume, the details, color, subtext.
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