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

Literary criticism

The Problem of «Feminine Style» in Literary Criticism (Gender Aspect)

The paper formulates methodological principles of the gender component identification in the process of the artistic image analysis. It clarifies the scope of the notions «feminine style» and «feminine literature». The focus is on such a specific feature of feminine writing as gender «bilingualism». The latter is interpreted as a basis for the gradually emerging feminine dominance in contemporary culture.

The Image of Troy in Peter Ackroyd’s Novel «the Fall of Troy»

The article examines the way Peter Ackroyd first creates and then destroys the image of Troy in the novel with the help of the motifs of eternity and element, as well as through the images of the characters and their perception.

The Image of the Artist in «The Prince in the Theatre» by A. Schnitzler

The article studies the genre of the «Künstlernovelle» drawing on the short story The Prince in the Theatre by Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian author of the turn of the XIX century. The images of artists are central to the writing of this author. This short story presents the type of a tired, aging, minor artist, who had wasted his talent in vain, the type that the author was very interested in.

To the Problem of the City Image in Postmodern Literature

The image of the city often becomes a subject of literary studies. The article aims at expanding the issue of urbanism poetics and city influence in literature. The author investigates key aspects of the city as a socio-cultural phenomenon with the help of the works by Western and American urban theorists.

Self-interpretation and the Search of the «Inner Person» in «Selected Passages from the Correspondence with Friends» by N. V. Gogol

This paper is based on self-interpretation analysis of «Selected passages from correspondence with friends» by N. V. Gogol and shows that the dialectics of the religious and the aesthetic in the discourse of confession about oneself is associated with the author’s concept of «inner» person.

Unconscious Forms of Author’s Presence in N.V. Gogol’s «The Inspector-General»

On the basis of the comedy «The Inspector-General» a wide range of the undisclosed, unpremeditated forms of the author’s presence in Gogol’s plays.

RUSSIA AND NAPOLEON IN THE POT OF GOGOL "DEAD SOUL"

The belonging of the Dead Souls to the genre of the epic (ancient and medieval) poem about wars and wanderings (including the world beyond the grave) is the original author's installation, and not only Chichikov's "Adventures", but also the military theme in its various aspects is an immanent component text. Chichikov - the bearer of an alien, non-Russian mentality, invading Russian realities, and therefore the parallel between Chichikov and Napoleon is consistently carried through the entire text of the poem.

Genre and Style Peculiarities of I. G. Ehrenburg’s Cycle Six Novels with Easy Endings

The article presents the characterization of one of the least researched texts from the body of I. G. Ehrenburg’s prose texts – Six novels with Easy Endings. The features of this work are analyzed in connection with the context of the literary controversy of the 1920s, which predetermined the author’s creative endeavors.

The Аesthetic Concept of Play as the Paradigm of Modernist and Postmodernist Literature

The article is dedicated to the issues of the play poetics as philosophical, ontological, and aesthetic paradigm of the main movements of the modern literature. The main criteria of the play are analyzed in the theoretical research and literary works of the modernist and postmodernist writers.

Traditions of Slovak Religious Poetry and Catholic Moderna Movement

The article deals with the development of Slovak spiritual poetry as an independent genre that has undergone a complex literary transformation: the first cantionals are created via the Gregorian choral, later they are elaborated into lyric song-prayers, driving the formation of a poetic religious movement Slovak Catholic Moderna in the XXth century.

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