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

Literary criticism

«Popular» in American Literature of the XVII–XX Centuries: Towards the Problem of Genesis of the US Mass Literature

The article deals with the origins of specific features of the US mass fiction - increased didacticism and broad reliance on the traditions of national literature. In the usage of Russian American studies new facts are introduced (popular novel by JR Ridge "The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the famous Californian bandit" (1854), etc.). Fiction of North America, initially oriented to the widest and most democratic audience, since the XVII century. worked out original techniques and principles of the most effective impact on the reader.

N.A. Polevoy in «My Literary and Moral Wanderings» by A.A. Grigoryev

The article belongs to a series of articles entitled «The portrait of N.A. Polevoy in literary memoirs of the 1850-s – early 1860-s», already published by different scholarly publications. Well-known memoirs from the period, together with criticism by Gerzen, Chernyshevsky, and Druzhinin, constitute a new literary-historical context which enabled a mid-XIX-th century reassessment of the previous thirty years of Russian literary history

Nicholai Chernyshevsky: Towards 180-th Anniversary

The article offers a contemporary view of Chernyshevsky’s biography and work, bringing in some understudied materials.

«Earthly Paradise» in American XIX Century Prose (Thoreau, Irving, Hawthorne)

The article deals with the concept pf America as earthly paradise in the texts by H.D. Thoreau, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Short stories by Irving and Hawthorn are compared with Thoreau’s novel «Walden: or, Life in the Woods», leading to conclusion about the similarities in interpreting the concept by the three authors.

PUSHKIN IN THE INTERNET POETRY

In the article some mechanisms of formation of cultural memory in media (secondary) poetry, published on the Internet, are considered. The material of the study was the peculiarities of perception of Pushkin's creativity and biography in the works of network authors and discussions held on the largest Russian-language poetic resource.

Berlin Discourse in A. Döblin’s «Berlin Alexanderplatz»

The article considers documentary and pseudo-documentary elements in the image of Berlin in Döblin’s classic novel, the connection between «Neue Sachlichkeit», montage technique and the literary picture of the metropolis, the functions of “Berlin discourse” in the novel.

Chernyshevsky and Chekhov: Criticism of «the Little Man»

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.

The History of A.A. Fet’s «My Memoirs»: the Draft Plan

The article presents to scholarly attention a manuscript by A.A. Fet – the first draft of the poet’s memoirs and offers a commentary to the publication of the text.

«Bravely Shall I Go Down to Eternity»

The article deals with the theme of death in «Les mémoires d’outre-tombe» by F-R. de Chateaubriand in the light of his concept of life, religious beliefs and tradition of autobiographical narrative in French Romantic prose

POLE IS BACK: FROM ROMANTICISM TO IMPRESSIONISM

The article is devoted to one of the most outstanding poets of France in the second half of the 19th century. Paul Verlaine, who began his career in the vein of romanticism and completed it with the discovery of a new literary and aesthetic direction. The authors trace the main stages of this evolution, related to the creation of Verlaine's central poetry collections (from "Saturnic verses" to "Songs without Words"). Specific features of impressionism as a new style in literature are characterized.

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