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

XVIII век

Изображение реальности в драматургии Дени Дидро

Статья посвящена осмыслению понятия реальности в культурном и научном наследии французского просветителя Дени Дидро. Интерес к данной теме продиктован неустаревающей актуальностью новаторской драматургической теории мыслителя, в которой вопрос об изображении реального является центральным. В ходе анализа были привлечены работы отечественных (Т. Б. Длугач, В. В. Ванслов, К. Горанов) и зарубежных (Ж. Бодрийяр, А. Мениль, К. Аббт, С. Шмиден) философов и литературоведов, которые затрагивали проблему репрезентации реальности в XVIII веке и особенно в творчестве Дени Дидро.

About the semantics of the word “cowardly” in the Russian language of the 18th–19th centuries and the meaning of the moral of Sumarokov’s fable The Hare and the Frogs

The article discusses the problem of studying the semantics of the word “cowardly” in the Russian language of the 18th and 19th centuries. The meaning of this lexeme has radically changed over time – this is evidenced by contexts from various sources (both documentary, scientific, and artistic).

To the creative history of Yuri Belyaev’s play Psisha

The paper examines the creative history of the play Psisha by Yuri Belyaev – a theatre critic, fi ction writer and dramatist of the Silver Age. While working on the article cycle A night at “The Opera House” about theatre history of the times of Catherine II, the critic researched historical sources: periodical, fi ction, documents of the second half of the 18th – early 19th centuries. There Belyaev must have found the material for his early fi ctional experience – the historical short story Psisha.

Childhood in A. N. Radishchev’s anthropological theory

The article studies the diversity of ideas on the role of childhood in human fate in the work On man, his death and immortality (1792-1796) by A. N. Radishchev. The author pays particular attention to the main features of the moral ideal of a human being which, from the point of view of the Enlightenment writer, should be achieved through upbringing. In connection with this set of issues, A. N.