Izvestiya of Saratov University.
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ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


Literary criticism

Henri de Régnier and A. S. Pushkin in Marina Tsvetayeva’s Metapoetics

The article deals with the problem of the interpretation of an author’s identity in correlation with the literary actuality (symbolism, poetic ideology of the Apollon journal) and the universal poetic canon (Pushkin). We analyze the forms of poetic self-identification used by the young poet in formation (Marina Tsvetayeva), the mentor – disciple relationship between Voloshin and Tsvetayeva, and ways in which Tsvetayeva transforms the Pushkin myth in the process of creating her individual poetics.

The Problem of Studying the Short Story «Matryona’s Home» by A. Solzhenitsyn in Secondary School

In the article the authors consider the stages of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s texts being introduced in the school curriculum; key problems of studying «Matryona’s Home» in secondary school are identified: the incompatibility of the story with the age of the students, and their lack of cultural and historic facts necessary for a proper perception of the text.

«Sharlotta – a Question Mark». The Play and the Fate of Sharlotta Ivanovna

In the article the image of the governess Sharlotta Ivanovna, a character from Vishneviy Sad (The Cherry Orchard), is analyzed. The motives of the play realized in the text are key to understanding the character. The story of creation and the stage fate of Sharlotta Ivanovna are also considered in the article.

Literary criticism on «Ronald Knox»

The article offers an analysis of literary critics’ attitude towards Evelyn Waugh’s biography «Ronald Knox» as well as reasons for it being unsuccessful among its contemporaries.

M. A. Aldanov’s Novel «The Sources»: Artistic and Philosophic Analysis of the ХХth Century Historic Factors

The role of the philosophic and historic discourse in the structure of the novel «The Sources» is revealed; the vector directivity of the author’s consciousness towards studying the mechanism of historic event inception is uncovered; the character of the writer’s interpretation of the ХХth century catastrophes’ origins is comprehended.

Provincial Space in Chekhov and Gorky`s Drama («Three Sisters» and «The Barbarians»)

In this article we are considering the poetics of the spatial image – the provincial town – in the plays by Gorky and Chekhov. The context of the XIX century classical drama enables to determine the new content of the province image, to reveal common features of the «new drama» poetics and author`s individual peculiarities as well, and to confront the world outlook positions of its two creators – Chekhov and Gorky reflected in the failing – to – coincide appraisals of the perspectives in the development of the Russian provincial life in the early XX century.

Conflict Peculiarity in Oscar Wilde’s Drama Salomé

The article analyzes external and internal conflicts of Oscar Wilde’s drama Salom. The external conflict reveals Wilde’s idea of the destructive role of human infatuation. The internal conflict presents Wilde’s views connected with his ‘philosophy of the unreal’.

Gothic Elements in Jonathan Coe’s «What a Carve-Up!»

Jonathan Coe’s satirical novel «What a Carve-Up!» is analyzed through the prism of traditional Gothic elements; their contribution to the ideological, philosophical and compositional structure of the novel is revealed.

The Problem of National and Other‑National in Modernism and Avant-garde

On the example of the literary activity of the Futurists, Imagists, Zaumniks the peculiarities of modernist and avant-garde solution to the problem of the national are investigated

CHEKHOV'S CHAIR "IN THE OBRAY" IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE WRITERS OF THE XX CENTURY

The article reviews the estimates of A.P. Chekhov "In the Ravine" writers of the twentieth century. (L. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, E. Zamyatin, V. Nabokov, I. Bunin, B. Zaitsev, K. Chukovsky, A. Solzhenitsyn). Writers are primarily interested in the artistic nature of the story, pay attention to the close and important features of poetics. As a result, the conclusion is drawn about the versatility of the story of A.P. Chekhov, as 

 

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