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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 ...

In the course of education a significant role is played by motivation of students. The study of academic motivation is one of the fundamental problems in pedagogics and psychology, since an efficient interaction between teachers and students is possible within understanding of their motivation. To teach in today’s environment it is necessary to be able to interpret such pshyco-pedagogical characteristics of a person as motivation, independent behavior, active performance and ability to reach one’s goals. To assess...

Religious art is representative of religions concept. Indian mausoleums, which were created during the reign of Mughal represent features of Indian Islam. Art analysis and philosophical interpretation of signs and images of Indian mausoleums helps to understand the unique features of Indian Islam. Religious Islamic art in India continues to have an impact on the recipients in the present. The art works of Islamic architecture can be studied as cultural texts. The ideals, values and standards of Islam are of archit...

The idea of manipulation in broad Translation Studies context finally resulted into the significant translation concept and a relative category, which was shared initially by the Manipulation School representatives (S. Bassnett, T. Hermans, J.S. Holmes, I. Even-Zohar, A. Lefevere, G. Toury) and later by a certain number of modern professional translators and translation theorists (F. Farahzad, N.G. Kornaukhova, P. Kuhiwczak, N.V. Klimovich). The aforementioned concept and category are mainly based on the fact that...

The article deals with one of the eternal issues of the theory and practice of literary translation: “What happens to a literary original after it has been translated?” The answer to this question could be probably found through interdisciplinary approach which takes into consideration not only exclusively translation categories and literary translation traditions but also broad literary, cultural and political contexts of the target text. The subject of the present research is the experience and results of foreig...