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

Literary criticism

Gogol’s Layer in the Novel Antichrist (Peter and Alexey) by D. S. Merezhkovsky

The article discusses the role of the marked repetitions of Gogol’s images, motifs and themes in Merezhkovsky’s novel, the ways the novel penetrates to the hidden layers of meaning of Gogol’s texts by the author.

Turgenev and Symbolists: to the Issue of the Artistic Experience of Turgenev as a Novelist. Article 2: The Technique of ‘Partial Duality’ and ‘Paired’ Scenes in the Novel Smoke

The author continues to investigate those artistic devices of Turgenev as a novel-writer which acquire special significance for the authors of symbolic novels. The subject of analysis is the technique of ‘partial duality’ and the ‘paired’ scenes, as well as the folklore allusions in Turgenev’s novel Smoke: their features and functions.

N. D. Akhsharumov оn the Novel by I. A. Goncharov Oblomov

The article deals with the evaluation of I. A. Goncharov’s novel Oblomov by the XIXth century critic N. D. Akhsharumov. His works, the article on Goncharov among them, have been nearly forgotten by the philological science. However, Akhsharumov’s reaction to the significant events of contemporary literary process adds fundamentally to the picture of the epoch’s literary life.

«Diabolic Parlance of French Precieuses»: to the Issue of the Baroque Linguistic Strategies

The article analyzes the peculiar language of the French preciueses presented in the prose of the middle of the XVIIth century (Jean Baptiste Moliere, A. Baudeau de Somaize). The characteristic fascination with periphrasis is associated with the specific features of women’s education and with the emphasis on the metaphor theory which was developed by Aristotle and popularized in Baroque treatises of the end of the XVIth – the beginning of the XVIIth centuries.

Zakhar Prilepin on Leonid Leonov: to the Question of the Writer’s Literary Landmarks

Researching the reasons of Zakhar Prilepin’s interest to Leonid Leonov’s oeuvre, the author of the article proves that by experiencing the difficult way of an eminent writer’s formation, the features of his artistic world, Leonov’s biographer acquires an opportunity to look more closely into himself, into his own style, to realize the correction of his own creative search.

V. Sorokin’s Concept of History and Its Artistic Representation in the Novel Day of the Oprichnik

The article researches the meaningful components of V. Sorokin’s artistic world picture: the idea of the ‘Russian metaphysics’ and ‘historic trauma’. The universal mythologem of oprichnina serves as the main means of their artistic representation.

Polyphony or Dialogue? Narrative Strategies in A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s Novel Cancer Ward

The article offers the analysis of narrative strategies in the novel Cancer Ward as a significant component of the author’s creative method, which was being formed in 1950-1960s. The idea of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s prose being polyphonic is considered controversial.

The Anatomy of the ‘Soviet’ in the Literary Process of the Turn of the XX–XXIst Centuries: A. I. Solzhenitsyn and V. P. Aksyonov (Part II)

The second part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of the key motive and thematic complexes together determining the peculiarity of the ‘soviet’ reality as artistic unity, actualized in the works by A. I. Solzhenitsyn and V. P. Aksyonov (written and published at the turn of the XX–XXIst centuries). The phenomenon of fear is considered in the line of the ideological foundation of the ‘soviet’ system.

Ways of Creating Psychological Portraits of the Characters in Pasternak’s Novel Doctor Zhivago

The article substantiates the conclusion that the basis of the psychological portraits of many characters, as well as of the composition of the novel Doctor Zhivago, contains parallelism and isomorphism; and their compositional unity allows the author to reveal the family and spiritual affinity of the characters, as well as to express his position.

Fairy-tale and Fantastic Vaudeville by E. Schwarts Adventures of Hohenstaufen: Genre Poetics

The article analyzes an early play by Evgeny Schwarts Adventures of Hohenstaufen. The text poetics features are distinguished on the levels of the action development, character images, language humor. The genre dominating idea is identified. The author reveals how the vaudeville, the fairy-tale, and fantastic, and the satiric elements in the text interact. In the focus of the author’s attention is the motive of a ‘usual’ miracle/magic reflecting the aesthetic principle of the playwright.

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