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

Literary criticism

An «Old-time Russian Master» Troyekurov and an «Old-time Nobleman» Andrei Dubrovsky in the Variants of Pushkin’s Autograph of the Novel Dubrovsky

The article compares the variants of Pushkin’s autograph of the novel Dubrovsky concerning the images of the elder representatives of the nobility. Variants’ textual analysis allows to reveal the process of artistic idea implementation.

Blacksmith Vakula from N. V. Gogol’s Story Christmas Eve as an Image of a «Liminal Being»

In the article Gogol’s image of the blacksmith Vakula is studied as one of the so-called «liminal beings», typical for the writer’s works. In the nature of such creatures there is a transition from the supernatural world into the real one, which allows them to act as mediators.

The Narrative Structure of Aesthetic Journalism Work

The article dwells on the problem of narrative structure in an aesthetic journalism work. The author proves that, contrary to the traditional views on the speech structure of aesthetic journalism, the narrator, the hero, and the author-creator of such works aesthetically do not correspond. The speech subject of aesthetic journalism is a special type of narrator, whose peculiarity is made up of the structurally manifested unmerging and inseparable bond with the author-creator.

The Motive of the Bewitched Place in Little Russia Cycles by N. V. Gogol: from Descriptions to Searching for the Original Cause

In the article Gogol’s «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka» and «Mirgorod» are studied in terms of the interaction and development of two motives – the motive of the bewitched place and the motive of strange transformations. From this point of view the cycles’ consecutive ideological correlation to «Arabesques» is also outlined.

Lyrical Triptych «Petropolis» by O. E. Mandelstam: Textual Criticism and Poetics

The article focuses on one of the little-researched author’s edition of a cycle of poems «Petropolis» and shows that in the form of a triptych it has an inherent artistic value. The analysis demonstrates the birth process of the individual poetic myth and the synthesis of various levels of meaning.

Risk at War Front and in the Rear Areas. Drama by A. F. Pisemsky «Old-timer and New Recruit» (1854) in Its Contemporary Literary and Journalistic Context and in the Creative Biography of the Author

The article contains a first-held comprehensive analysis of one of the less researched early dramas by A. F. Pisemsky «Old-timer and New Recruit» in the context of the development of the playwright’s aesthetics, juxtaposing it to its contemporary journal belles-lettres of the start of the Crimean campaign. Arguments are presented in favour of Pisemsky’s drama being a phenomenon that goes beyond the limits of drama belles-lettres by its aesthetic merits.

A Household Sketch and the Process of Internal Complexification of Small Genres at the Turn of the XIX– XXth Centuries (On the Material of the Publications in «Znanie» collections (1903–1910))

The article deals with the analysis of the transformation of a household sketch in small prose at the turn of the centuries, with the growing complexity of «a life piece» from being social and typical towards involving psychology, philosophy and the depth of a fulfilled life.

CHURCH OF COLORFUL "FOLLOWING SPIRIT" AS "TEXT-MYTH"

The article presents the results of a study of mythological allusions in M. Tsvetaeva's essay "The Captive Spirit". The material allows us to consider this essay as a "text-myth". Developing the personal myth of Andrei Bely about his life as a repetition of the "passions" of Christ and Dionysus, Tsvetaeva approves his concept of the Poet.

FLOBERER AND TURGENEV - LITERARY TEACHERS OF MOCASSAN

The article examines the nature of the influence of creativity Flaubert and Turgenev on subjects, subjects, the nature of the psychologism of novels and short stories by Maupassant in the context of the views of all three writers on the contemporary novel.

 

REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA IN THE EARLY ROSES OF YOSEPH ROTA

In the article images of revolutionary Russia in the early novels of the German-speaking writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) "Flight without end" (1927) and "The Mute Prophet" (1929) are analyzed. The Russian revolution is depicted in these texts as a monstrous enterprise, carried out by random people from personal motives. It does not lead to the creation of a state and a man of a new type and therefore it seems senseless bloodshed.

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