Literary criticism

From the article it becomes clear that the pubiication of works on theorists оf French romanticism in «Moscow Telegraph», issued by N.A. Polevoj, shows the process of deep understanding of rules of new dramatic аnd which occured both in French аnd Russian literatures. Systematic, different by genre, such publications helped the Russian reader to comprehend the experience of romantics, answered their needs to come in touch with the great change in literature, аnd this change was the victory of romanticism over ciassicism. 

The article considers the nature of myth and symbolism in the most experimental novel by В. Н. Lawrence, «The Plumed Serpent», of which he made а kind of a fable of religious rebirth. The traditional Lawrence’s individual myths take п the novel additionai ideological meanings that condense the models and forms of being аnd correspond to the author’s wish to convey the nature, eternity, the sense of change of epochs and generations. Such understanding of myth's functioning т close to Romanticism. 

The article deals with the symbolic meaning of the medieval novel and its genre nomination. The word "romanz" and the genre of the novel itself refers to Rome and the prestigious, legitimizing tradition, one way or another connected with Rome. in this sense, a medieval novel can be considered as a specific secular and literary analogy of the strategy of "empire transfer".

The early period of American literature begins with exciting descriptions of the New World of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and others. The first work written in America is Captain John Smith's fascinating report on the first years of life in the colony in Virginia and his relations with the aborigines. These works allow us to identify the most important cultural forces that formed the American literary tradition. For this reason they are the most comprehensive and reliable sources for penetrating the depths of American literature.