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The article deals with the scholarly edition of 19th-20th cc. Georgian writers’ epistolary legacy (thirty-volume set), initiated by our scientific team from 2010, the modern research methods for textual and editorial studies, we guide with in preparing the volumes, our editorial strategy, based on which traditional attitudes and modern technologies have been combined with each other in research process, it became possible, by using computational technologies, to read several indecipherable texts of the writers, un...

One of the important features of the contemporary literary process is an actualization of a variety of transgressive or hybrid phenomena. In this connection, the novel “Laurus” (2012) by Eugene Vodolazkin is not an exception. Expressed criticism is sometimes not satisfied with the discreteness of E. Vodolazkin’s text, its peculiar mosaic, explicit eclectic mixture of semantic, speech, structural and genre elements. It seems that these elements have a deeper meaning. The article analyzes the semantics of the blendi...

In modern criticism, V. Nabokov is revered as one of postmodernism “godfathers”. In the texts of a number of iconic contemporary writers (from A. Bitov up to O. Slavnikova and L. Ulitskaya) the influence of “Lolita” author’s creative works is highly significant. L. Ulitskaya never attributed herself to the postmodernist trend; on the contrary, she insisted that aesthetics under the sign “post” is becoming obsolete. Such experience of the author's self-identification beyond the post-modernism's aesthetics is worth ...

The given research is focused on the study of the book by a contemporary Latvian writer and journalist Inese Zandere titled “The Ship’s Log Book” (Ku?a žurn?ls), which was published in 2016. The author of the research views it from the perspective of hybrid texts and analyses the shift of genre boundaries between poetic texts and journalism. The subtitle of the book is “Notes, essays, excerpts, letters, conversations”. In the title of the book a lexeme denoting a familiar document is used – a log book, which is kn...

The research is significant because although N.A. Zabolotsky’s creative work has always been the focus of scrupulous attention, it would not be exactly correct to state that all aspects of his creative output were comprehensively studied due to the exclusive unfathomable versatility of masterpieces produced by such a great literary artist. So there are a great number of uninvestigated questions, demanding an in-depth study and thorough analysis. The theme of music in N.A. Zabolotsky’s poetry, the question about th...

Presented study synthetises the research focused on the portrayal of a man in the literature for children and youth in Slovakia. Material basis for the research is both original as well as translated prosaic production published in Slovakia since mid- 19th century until 1989 (fall of the communist regime). The research findings are about to answer the following questions: 1. what is the mutual proportional representation of different types of handicap (social disadvantage and medical handicap; i.e. physical impair...

Division into periods of D.H. Lawrence’s creative activity mainly is based on his biographical facts, but we should find a point of his departure from the apprenticeship, from the traditions of the English novel of the 19th century. In many respects the author of Sons and Lovers departs from traditions, although he does not break with them completely. Lawrence creates a synthetic genre, combining the structure of a Bildungsroman and a Künstlerroman, giving his protagonist some autobiographical traits. Buthe does n...

The perception of Holocaust in the cultural sphere of Latvia is a peculiar segment of social memory. This topic has been expanded upon in researches of Didzis B?rzi?š. Within the framework of the topic, the opposition ours – theirs, we – them is realized, i.e. the events of the Second World War are understood and evaluated from various points of view. In this context, the role of literature in the evaluation of the historic events becomes topical. The paper examines peculiarities of the reflection of the topic of ...

Art is inter-medial, its internal borders are permeable; due to this quality of semantic “frontiers” there is a constant dialogue between such different spheres of art as painting, poetry, architecture, music, cinema, and new forms of media relevant to the modern era. This work is an attempt to interpret "visible" (but not graphic-visual) poetry on the example of lyrical story by the Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov, who has been writing in Russian for many years of his creative biography. The main attention is paid ...

In the history of Russian literature names of F.M. Dostoevsky and M.Y. Saltykov-Shchedrin stand side by side and at the same time opposing each other. One of the painful issues, points of attraction and repulsion, points of consolidation and confrontation between the artistic worlds of the writers is their understanding of the phenomenon of power. They got their first impressions about the type of power relations predominating in Russian society at about the same time, in their youth, when they both took first ste...

This paper analyzes the problem of visual representation of "moon landscapes" in the poetic heritage of the French poet-symbolist Paul Verlaine. The appeal of poets and other artists of XIX century to the nocturne demonstrated new possibilities of the author's statement in the text characterized as synthetic, as a text in which different languages of art are intertwined. It declared a polycode method of representation, in which the symbolism of twilight and melancholic existence fixed the new metaphysics of the ni...

R?dolfs Blaumanis’ personality as well as literary works created by him lay a firm foundation for the Latvian classical literature. Writer’s views and texts reflect the rural and urban environment of the end of the 19th c. and the beginning of the 20th century, focusing on the juxtaposition of townspeople and countrymen, the patriarchal and industrial life rhythms, addressing family and marriage problems, as well as exploring the relationships between the Latvians, Baltic Germans, Russians, and Jews. Folklore is a...

Cultural trauma appears when a group of people feels they were made some horrible event experience leading to indelible traces in their collective consciousness, leaving an imprint in their memories forever and changing their identity irreversibly. During the 20th century, first in the Western societies but soon also worldwide, people constantly were stating that they had been traumatized by some experience, event, act of violence or frightening, or just by sharp and sudden and sometimes even not very hostile expe...

In my paper, I will focus on the reception of Vaclav Havel’s plays among Czech literary critics who lived in exile. Among others, it was Igor Hajek who analysed them in his two treatises, in a review of the collection of plays related to the character of Ferdinand Vanek. Igor Hajek (1931-1995), a Czech exile literary critic, belongs to personalities who have played a significant role in the presentation of Czech literature abroad. He lived in British emigration since 1969 and his name in Czechoslovakia was on the ...

The aim of the study is to perform and present the synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Russian writer’s, Anton Chekhov’s (1860 – 1904), reception in Latvia in four most significant cultural historical periods that determined the establishment and formation of the writer’s “literary reputation” (I. Rozanov) in Latvia. The material of the study is essays, dedication poetry, translations, and staged performances to trace the borrowings and direct influences that form the “outer” and “inner” reception of Chekhov...

Gothic fiction of the 18th and the early 19th centuries has caused a significant influence not only on the mass literature but also on the works of many forthcoming generations of writers and poets. These authors created an atmosphere of anxiety, fear and uncertainty in their works by adopting a range of Gothic romance novel creative methods and techniques. The present article attempts to give an overview of the Gothic romance novel tradition in the 19th century American literature. Charles Brockden Brown, one of ...

The last great poem written by T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, offers a complete vision of his philosophical and poetical mind. Beginning with his first questioning poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, going through Gerontion and The Waste Land, with their expectations and prophecies, and advancing into the poems after conversion (Ash-Wednesday, The Ariel Poems) where the questions receive answers and the prophecies, fulfillment, the main themes and symbols of this last poem develop their power of revelation...

Short stories and novels by Waclaw Sieroszewski were periodically reviewed in critical and bibliographic sections of the leading Russian magazines and journals of the time: “??????? ?????” (Russkaja mysl’) (Moscow), “??????? ?????????” (Russkoe bogatstvo), “??? ?????” (Mir Bozhij), “?????” (Zhizn'), “????? ?????” (Novoe slovo), “??????? ??????” (Vestnik znanija) (all - St.Petersburg) and others. The most intensively the works of the Polish writer were published and reviewed in the period from 1895 till 1905, when ...

Disability studies as an independent branch of social sciences and humanities was established and initially developed in English-speaking countries (the USA, Great Britain, Canada) and at the end of the 20th century coincided with the contemporary topicalities of sociology, philosophy, feminism, post-structural criticism and the theory of national minorities (this issue has been considered from various perspectives by Miles Beauchamp, Wendy Chung, Alijandra Mogilner, Ashutosh Singh, Viktorija Sukovataja, Svetlana ...

The literal translation of “queer theory” might be considered as a “theory of oddity”, or “theory of strangeness”. Initially negatively perceived designation became the official theory name in the second half of the 20th century, which deals dominantly with a marginal – in order to analyse the mainstream cultural construct. Although the “queer reading” in the Western-European society plays a significant role still not only within the area of literature theory, but also in politics, culture, economics, or education...

Despite the exponential growth of transcultural/ translingual studies in recent decades, phenomenon of literary translingualism is still open to question. Specifically, it has been suggested that translingual practices in literature are equivalent to a “cultural bomb” that make minority ethnic groups forget their “names”. Translinguism is as old as the mythical Babylon itself. But if in the usual communication the translingual practices are evaluated rather positively (as the strategy of cooperation with the Other...

In the history of Sakha literature the names «Yksykylekh Ylyksyj» - A.Y. Kulakovsky, «Alampa» – A.I. Sofronov, «Bilatian Oiuunuskay» – P.A. Oyunsky have a great meaning. The most important thing in their heritage is the distinctive vision of the world, reflected in the unique symbolic systems of their poetry, which confirm eastern sources in the national artistic culture of a northern Turkish branch – the Sakha nation. In poetic works of the early literary traditions we have the presence of folk beginnings as a sp...

Study deals with the thematisation of visual deprivation (blindness) in the picture books, which are (in connection with its designation both as for intact as well as for handicapped reader) labeled with attributes “accessible” and “inclusive”. As illustrated in creative practice, such books are characteristic by an emphasis on its sensual-concrete realization (“artefacticity”) and subsequently by an experimental semiotic connection between verbal (literary) and visual (illustrative) component. Study attempts to s...

The theory of social treaty is one of the basic socio-political doctrines of the Enlightenment in Europe and in Russia. Different models of relations between the authorities and society are reflected in the treatises of European and Russian thinkers of the time. However, the concept of the social treaty represents the constantly changing ideological construct, "a tacit agreement", created, sought and spoken in various texts of culture. The author intents to observe the odic poetry of the XVIII century, the field o...

Doubleness is one of the most spread artistic methods of constructing a personality in European culture, which has a rich tradition. It received a special universal status in the era of Late Romanticism. In Romanticism, doubleness is an embodiment of a tragically incomplete breakthrough of a man to the eternally beautiful and perfect in those times, when the world started to be perceived as terrible and hopeless. Modernity presented a specific variation of Romantic doubleness; a double of the turn of the 19th – 20...

The purpose of this analysis is to critically examine an experience of perceiving a literary text and to provide a special approach to make the perception deeper. To raise awareness intended to introduce the reader to Isaak Babel’s “Red Cavalry” artistic text a new way of receiving the text has been proposed. A bike by night event of the educational project “Velonotte International” in Sergiyev Posad, Russia, highlights the importance of facilitation of the receiver entering into a relationship with the author fam...

Aspazija (Elza Rozenberga, 1965–1943) is a founder of Latvian women’s writing. She had an essential role in the formation of Latvian contemporary literature in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. At that time, it was modernity that determined social and economic processes in the world. That time was characterized by the deconstruction of the patriarchal model of life and the stratification of the society. Industrialization and urbanization determined the overlap, transformation and hybridization of ethnic and so...

During my numerous research and teaching stays at the universities in Great Britain, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria I was asked to speak about Czech independent literature which existed under the communist regime (1948-1989). As an author of a monograph about Czech literary underground (1999) and many studies on this topic, I expected that it would be easy for me. Nevertheless, I soon came to the conclusion that translation of basic terms connected with independent culture is not only a matter of linguistic ability ...

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) is along with Jaroslav Hašek and Milan Kundera one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, his works are translated to 27 foreign languages. The present paper pays attention especially to his texts written in the early 1950s when Hrabal started to use his specific narrative style that combines modernist impulses with down-to-earth tall tales inspired by the milieu of Czech pubs. In that time Hrabal was in a close and friendly contact with much younger Egon Bondy, a poet and ph...

Autobiographicity is a peculiar form of writing based on the personal life experience of the author of a literary work reflecting its facts and events. Limits of the autobiographical character of a literary work are not easy to establish; its investigation requires deep knowledge of the biographical facts of the respective author that is drawn from the analysis of documents of extra-textual reality (letters, contemporaries’ memoirs and evaluations, reviews of the literary work, the biographical information provide...

In this paper I am going to focus on the work of the Czech writer Karel Capek, who lived in the first half of the 20th century, as it was perceived by the Czech exile literary critics and Western scholars specialized in Czech studies. This author enjoyed great popularity in Britain in the period between the two world wars, but his works had gradually fallen into oblivion over time, perhaps except for his play RUR, which enriched the English language with the word robot, and the novel War with the Newts. I am going...

Modern humanitarian knowledge has increasingly paid attention to axiological aspects of human life. In search of moral values of the present, it makes sense to address to the cultural heritage of the previous eras. Restoration Comedy, emerged as a reaction to six-year puritanical dictatorship, followed by the restoration of the monarchy, is of special interest, in this sense. The peculiar attitude towards the moral standards found the reflection in comedies of manners of the Restoration era is, certainly, related ...

The early 20th century was to become a significant milestone not only for the development of relations between Russia and Yakutia, but also for the convergence of Russian and Yakut people, largely through Russian literature. The beginning of the 20th century, as the time for the Russian-language literature appearance in Yakutia, was a difficult period, given the fact that the beginning of the century was a time for the political change of eras and ideals, the time to search for political, social, and spiritual val...

The article is devoted to the philosophical interpretation of the specifics of creativity of A.S. Pushkin, the famous poet and writer, one of the geniuses of the world culture. Pushkin didn’t leave his own philosophical legacy. However, his works inspired many philosophers, who understood its philosophical depths. This article examines the works of A. S. Pushkin through the prism of analysis of the creative heritage by the Russian philosophers abroad G. P. Fedotov, N.A.Berdyaev and I.A. Ilyin, as well as modern Ru...