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

Literary criticism

Interpretation of N. V. Gogol’s comedy The Government Inspector in China in the second half of the 20th century: Translation by Man Tao

This paper examines the interpretative issues surrounding the Chinese translation of the comedy The Government Inspector, with a particular focus on the rendition by a translator and a literary figure Man Tao (1916–1978). Man Tao was the fifth translator in the 20th century to translate this classic comedy into Chinese.

Семья и женщина в романах Г. Флобера «Госпожа Бовари» и Дж. Фазела «Любовь и слеза»

This article examines the issue of family and the position of women through a comparative analysis of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary (1856) and Javad Fazel Larijani's Love and Tears (1952). The analysis reveals that for both authors the family serves as a central concept shaping the life trajectories of their female protagonists.

The fantastical space in the novel The Starless Sea by E. Morgenstern and the specific features of its functioning

The works by E. Morgenstern belong to the contemporary intellectual fantastic literature that re-defines the traditions of its genre. The Starless Sea (2019) includes elements of both urban and portal fantasy with the prevalence of the second one.

The genre of supersaga in V. Khlebnikov’s writing: Specific nature of the subject organization

The article examines the genre phenomenon of supersaga in V. Khlebnikov’s oeuvre. According to the theoretical model of the genre proposed by N. L. Leiderman, the subject organization of an artistic text is identified as the most important component of the genre structure. A comparative analysis is conducted on the works Children of the Otter (1911–1913), The Lightning Sisters (1918–1921), and Zangezi (1920–1922). B. O. Korman’s system-subject method allows us to describe the supersaga as an intergeneric form gravitating toward drama. At the same time, V.

Features of “alpine text” in the poem of N. P. Gronsky Belladonne

The article studies the theoretical basis of the concept of alpine text and its functioning in the poem of a representative of the first wave of the Russian émigré N. P. Gronsky “Belladonne”. This term, recently introduced into scientific usage, is studied on the basis of theoretical works by T. Scheidegger, L. Lyubimova, N. Mednis. The article introduces major principles that characterize alpine text in connection with the aesthetics of Swiss and German Art Nouveau, the mountainscape and mountain philosophy of the Russian literature.

The peculiarities of the actualization of the story of Job in the Russian poetry of the second half of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st centuries

The study raises the question of the historical dynamics of the theme of Job in the Russian poetry of the second half of the 20th – early 21st century. As a link between the Old and New Testaments, the Book of Job poses the most important problem of theodicy for mankind – the justification of the divine world order. A special emphasis is placed on Alexander Soprovsky’s philosophical essay “On the Book of Job”, a pro grammatic aesthetic text of the 1970s.

The issues of studying Internet folklore in Russia

The rise of digital culture and the proliferation of new forms of folk creativity on the internet present new research challenges for con temporary folkloristics. Traditional methods of folklore analysis often prove inadequate for studying digital artefacts, necessitating a reassessment of existing methodological frameworks and an adjustment of the existing theoretical models.

Unity and diversity of forms of artistic psychologism in Crébillon-son’s works

The article explores the correlation between analytical and objective psychologism in Crébillon-son’s works by means of analyzing an oriental fairytale Tanzaï et Néadarné and a novel Les Égarements du cœur et de l’esprit as parts of a unified artistic system. A preference for a certain form of artistic psychologism is defined by two factors. Firstly, it depends on the variability of characters mastering the rules of social etiquette while maintaining the interest in movements of their own hearts.

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