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

Literary criticism

The functions of A. S. Pushkin’s intertext in Yu. N. Tynyanov’s novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar

The article focuses on the formal and content role of Pushkin’s intertext in Yu. N. Tynyanov’s novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar. Diff er ent ways of introducing quotes, references, allusions to A. S. Pushkin’s works are revealed. Such features of quoting as non-attributiveness, inexactness, pre-text reduction to single word images are elicited in the process of analysis. In the opinion of the author of the paper, this indicates a play-based dialogue with the reader who should unravel Pushkin’s texts independently and discern the “mistakes” of reproduc tion.

World-modeling universals of childhood in M. A. Osorgin’s story From the Little House

The purpose of this article is to consider the specific features of the artistic embodiment of the components of the author’s childhood world model in the story From the Little House by the writer of the first wave of the Russian émigré, M. A. Osorgin. The author-narrator appears as the central world-modeling category of the work. He remembers, reflects, describes himself as a child. The theme of memory stated in the story is the leading one for the autobiographical prose of the Russian émigré writers.

Film adaptations of Mikhail Bulgakov’s works: Literary source and its interpretation

Over the course of more than fifty years, thirteen of M. Bulgakov’s works have been adapted for the screen: The Master and Margarita, Heart of a Dog, Flight, The White Guard, Days of the Turbins, The Fatal Eggs, Morphine, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, The Red Crown, Ivan Vasilievich, A Theatrical Novel, The Crimson Island, and The Last Days. The novel The Master and Margarita holds the record for the most screen adaptations in cinema: twelve films.

“A fighting body” in the poetry of the Thaw epoch

The article traces the transformation of the corporeal imagery in the poetry of the thirteen key war-veteran poets, who started writing in the war years and continued to create during the Thaw: O. Berggolts, S. Gudsenko, Yu. Drunina, Yu. Levitansky, A. Mezhirov, B. Okudzhava, N. Panchenko, D. Samoylov, I. Selvinsky, K. Simonov, B. Slutsky, Ya. Smelyakov, A. Tvardovsky. In the course of the analysis six types of corporeal images are revealed in the works of the authors under study: sensor, morbual, mortal, mnemonic, age and gender oriented.

Transformation of the biblical myth in the play Judith by Elena Isaeva

The paper examines the features of the image of Judith in the play of the same name by the modern playwright Elena Isaeva, in which the author relies on the story described in the Book of Judith, which was a part of the Old Testament. Comparison with the original biblical myth allows us to conclude that it has been significantly transformed in the play. Isaeva does not limit herself to describing the clash of Assyrians and Jews, she muffles the bloody conflict.

Poetic texts in the perception of journals and the Internet literary criticism

Nowadays literary criticism on the Internet is actively developing, becoming an area of influence on the worldview of the modern reader. The article provides a comparative analysis of literary and critical publications on the Internet and in literary and art journals on poetic texts in the period from 2020 to 2023.

Representation of reality in the aesthetic-philosophical system of Denis Diderot

The article deals with the comprehension of the concept of reality in the cultural and scientifi c heritage of the French enlightener Denis Diderot. The interest to this topic is dictated by the timeless relevance of the innovative dramaturgical theory of the thinker, in which the issue of depicting the real is central. In the course of the analysis the works of domestic and foreign philosophers and literary critics, who touched upon the problem of the representation of reality in the 18th century and especially in the works of Denis Diderot, were involved.

The representation of childhood in the autobiographical narrative structure (F.-R. de Chateaubriand and George Sand)

The article considers the theme of childhood and the specific features of its representation in the Mémoires d’outre-tombe by F. R. de Chateaubriand and Histoire de ma vie by Georges Sand. Childhood is seen as an integral structural element of the self-narrative, the artistic concept of which is formed in the context of the era and the existing literary tradition.

The image of the Russian people in Notes from a Dead House by F. M. Dostoevsky

In modern cultural processes, the problems of the essence of the mentality of the Russian people in Dostoevsky’s artistic works are acquiring critical importance. The article provides a detailed analysis of the images of the Russian people and pictures of their life created by F. M. Dostoevsky in Notes from a Dead House, and reveals the origin of the ideas of Pochvennichestvo in Dostoevsky’s work of the early 1860s.

Semantic range of the concept “reader” in contemporary Russian culture

Negative transformations associated with the culture of reading in the 21st century are generally recognized. First of all, and not without reason, the reader of fi ction comes into the fi eld of vision of philologists and teachers. The goal of the article is to analyze the modern range of meanings of the concept “reader” against the backdrop of the established reader’s image in the collective (proverbial) folk memory. The author is interested in the problem of institutionalization of the Russian reader.

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