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The contemporary Russian literature is a complex mixture of separate sub-literatures, each having its own authors and its own devoted readers. We witness ubiquitous presence of readers’ ‘deceived expectations’ device, as regards traditional ideas of genres and forms. The marginal genres often appear on the borderline between literature and journalism. Among the productive models are TVconfession; print media genre of women review; specific combinations of these two.

The article contributes to the study of B.L. Pasternak’s personal and creative identity as depending on the circumstances of his epoch. The object of study is formed by Pasternak’s reflections on the principles of creating fiction found in his epistolary heritage of the 1910-s – 1960-s. 

The article analyzes the category of space in Andrey Platonov’s world as multilevel phenomenon. It describes philosophical characteristics of every space level, reveals the significant connections with the category of time, and offers the interpretation of the existential meaning of these categories. 

The article compares the aesthetic views of V. Nabokov and M. Aldanov on the role of contingency in history, in human’s fate, in creative process. Their articles, short stories and novels «King, Queen, Knave», «The Gift» by Nabokov, «The Cave» and «Sources» by Aldanov, Aldanov’s philosophical «The Ulm Night» make up the materials for the research.

The article deals with semantics and inner typology of NabokovSirin’s titles, treated as ‘opening words’ of respective poetic and prosaic texts, in order to penetrate the writer’s way of thinking and describe his specific language culture. 

The article analyses the principles of literary-historical cognition in the literary heritage of D.S. Merezhkovsky which so far haven’t been studied enough. These principles include «aesthetic appeal to epistemology», textual approach to history, method of «analytical reading» of the «Books of History», etc. The article reflects on the genre characteristics of the historiophilosophic novel by D.S.

Among the poets and writers of the Silver Age the article singles out Yu.Aikhenvald and I.Annensky, drawing attention to their articles on A.F.Pisemsky, one of the most controversial authors of the midXIX-the century. Both critics concentrated on the characters’ speech in Pisemsky’s works finding it his most specific trait as an author, and both offered deep insights in Pisemsky’s world and further vistas for its analysis. Following into their steps, the article contains some new observations on Pisemsky’s style.

During one’s lifetime a person performs different social roles, the most significant of them being family roles: those of husband or wife, son or daughter, etc. The article gives the analysis of several examples of family communication, pointing out speech manifestations of the roles of husband and wife. 

The article offers a classification of syntactic units based on their structure and functions in oral speech.

The materials from the current newspapers are used to analyze the formation of spaces based on the phenomenon of secondary linguosemiosis. The mechanisms of formation of spaces of associative background of events are considered, leading to the conclusion that the manifestations of a given space contribute to perception of the main information of the text, and what is most important for the press discourse – they can mask by recurring to images the partisan opinions, they influence the reader’s perception of the world.