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

Literary criticism

A. P. Chekhov and S. V. Rakhmaninov: Some Parallels

The article regards image and notional parallels in the works by A. P. Chekhov and S. V. Rakhmaninov revealing similar features of the writer’s and composer’s artistic outlook as of those who reveal national identity of the Russian art.

The World As a «Girl/Child Point of View»: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s Practices of «Estrangement»

The features of visual poetics of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky are considered in the article. The technique of «estrangement» as described by the Russian formalists is traced in the writer’s prose.

The Final of Gogol’s «Revizor» in Aspect of Literary Principles of Mikhail Bulgakov

The single sentence by Mikhail Bulgakov about the final of Nikolay Gogol’s play «Revizor» provokes the author of this work to contemplate the finals of Bulgakov’s plays as well. The researcher suggests that Bulgakov considered the Gogol’s final an excellent example of a grotesque («thunderous», as Bulgakov himself called it) end of action. He proves that such type of an unnatural, unexpected denouement distinguishes many Bulgakov’s works.

On the Unresolved Contradiction in the Reception of Plekhanov’s Heritage in Literary Studies

The article demonstrates on the material of the Soviet Plekhanov studies that the taxonomic problem of exact methodological definition of text interpretation is far from being solved. The absence of typology criteria for existing methods inevitably hinders the work of literary scholars and interferes with the proper systematization of the material.

The Image of Warrior in I. I. Kozlov’s Lyrics and Its Folklore Variants in the Context of Poems about Napoleonic Wars

The article is devoted to the identification of originality of I. I. Kozlov’s battle lyrics in the context of poems on Napoleonic wars. Particular attention is paid to the image of warrior.

Risks of Argument and the Speech Genre of Collaborative Search of Agreement

The nature of argument itself inclines us towards an involuntary concentration on proving that we are right. Speech genre of collaborative search of agreement presupposes solving a different communicative task. The main condition of the solution is being naturally predisposed in favour of the interlocutor, and exerting oneself to be ready – for the sake of achieving mutual understanding – to make probable reasonable concessions to another participant of search initiatives.

On the Role of Criticism in Literary Process of the Beginning of the XX‑th Century from the Point of View of Perception

The subject of this article is the analysis of the complexity of literary texts perception in the beginning of the XX-th century, the epoch of change of a cultural paradigm. The author considers such new lines of literary process as «the fashionable writer», change of a publishing policy and type of reader’s perception.

Albert Maltz and the Russian Literature: Reception, Analysis, Criticism

The article analyses what Russian authors were on Albert Maltz’s reading list. In this regard special attention is paid to the correlation between Maltz’s aesthetic evaluations and political views, and the official line of the USA communist party guidelines in the field of art. Comprehensive examination of Maltz’s contacts with Soviet dissidents sheds the light on the dynamics of his attitude to social realism which was founded by M. Gorky.

CONSCIOUSNESS AS "OPTICAL INSTRUMENT": ABOUT VISUAL ESTHETICS V. NABOKOVA

V. Nabokov's visual aesthetics is considered in the article as a reflection of the writer's philosophical indeterminism and is analyzed in the context of the optical experiments of the twentieth century art. A comparison is made of the visibility of Nabokov's prose with the aesthetics of photography.

 

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