Izvestiya of Saratov University.
Philology. Journalism
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)

Literary criticism

On the Role of Criticism in Literary Process of the Beginning of the XX‑th Century from the Point of View of Perception

The subject of this article is the analysis of the complexity of literary texts perception in the beginning of the XX-th century, the epoch of change of a cultural paradigm. The author considers such new lines of literary process as «the fashionable writer», change of a publishing policy and type of reader’s perception.

Albert Maltz and the Russian Literature: Reception, Analysis, Criticism

The article analyses what Russian authors were on Albert Maltz’s reading list. In this regard special attention is paid to the correlation between Maltz’s aesthetic evaluations and political views, and the official line of the USA communist party guidelines in the field of art. Comprehensive examination of Maltz’s contacts with Soviet dissidents sheds the light on the dynamics of his attitude to social realism which was founded by M. Gorky.

CONSCIOUSNESS AS "OPTICAL INSTRUMENT": ABOUT VISUAL ESTHETICS V. NABOKOVA

V. Nabokov's visual aesthetics is considered in the article as a reflection of the writer's philosophical indeterminism and is analyzed in the context of the optical experiments of the twentieth century art. A comparison is made of the visibility of Nabokov's prose with the aesthetics of photography.

 

"CONCLUSIONS MAKE YOURSELF FOR YOURSELF? OR YOU HERE HOW TO PERMANENT CUSTOMERS TO WAIT?" ^ PRAGMALINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERACTION OF THE JUDGE AND THE SUDDEN

The article studies judicial discourse, namely, the peculiarities of speech interaction between the judge and the defendant during the judicial interrogation. The author distinguishes three types of tactics in the speech of Russian and English judges in accordance with the functions performed by them. In the work, the national-cultural specificity of the speech of Russian judges is noted, due to a number of social factors and features of the national mentality.

 

CHERNYSHEVSKY AND CHEKHOV: CRITICISM OF THE "SMALL HUMAN"

The article examines the evolution of Chernyshevsky's ideas about the hero of Gogol's "Overcoat" (from the apologetics of the humanistic feeling to the "one who needs protection", to the denial of his right to sympathy, to the utterance of "unprofitable truth" about him) in order to show the relapse of such an interpretation of a small man in the domestic czech.

Dostoevsky-Memoirist

The article deals with problems of terminological unity, forms and boundaries of «memoir» genre in modern literary criticism on the example of F. M. Dostoevsky’s works. A lot of his letters, «Writer’s Diary», and also many fragments of his novels are closely related to memoir genre. Thus the laws of memoir narration are revealed in these parts of Dostoevsky’s literary heritage different in genre nature, but entering the original interaction with their own genre’s principles. 

 

‘Language of Flowers/Colors’ in the Novel by F. Sologub «Bad Dreams»: To the Issue of ‘Faithfulness to Things’ in the Symbolist Poetics

The subject of research in the article is the function of color in the description of objects’ details and the plants – counterparts of characters – in Sologub’s novel «Bad Dreams». The author presumes that a peculiar ‘language of flowers/colors’ is created in the novel: flowers and colors are the signatures of the characters’ spiritual path indicating its mysterious and eternal meaning.

German Environment of N. V. Gogol as a Pupil

The article considers Gogol’s letters of his school years in which the German topic is mentioned, as well as contemporaries’ reminiscences complementing the picture with the biographical facts of the future author.

The Denouement in N. V. Gogol’s «The Inspector General» as a Means of Disputing «Theatrical Departure»

The article considers texts accompanying the comedy «The Inspector General». The researcher traces the changes of the author’s assessment of his own texts, the author’s doubts and self-reflection.

Fedor Sologub and «Shipovnik» (Rose-Tree) (his Relationships with the Editorial Board)

In the article the relationships between the Shipovnik Almanac publishing house owners and editors (S. Yu. Kopelman, Z. I. Grzhebin, B. Zaytsev, L. Andreev) and the writer F. Sologub are considered. The history of the publication of the novel «Nav’s Charms» in the Almanac Shipovnik is traced taking into account literary reviews to its publication.

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