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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...

1. Questions connected with national identity are relevant in the modern world because of their global nature. Culture, science, art, literature in post-soviet Kazakhstan for the last 25 years is characterized by the surge of interest to national identity, to the awareness of their belonging to a certain ethnic community as an important condition for the existence of human society. National identity is one of the ideas due to the peoples’ national image of the world and history. This idea is directly connected wit...

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 use of ochres and pigments, derived from vegetable and mineral world, to color parts or sometimes completely the skin of the body, is a practice still in use in many populations and ethnic groups of our planet. Anthropological research carried out on the oldest languages of the world has shown that in terminology there are names only for light and darkness, so for white and black. The third color that appears is red, which sums up the shades of pink, purple, purple and orange, and is psychologically linked dir...

The work compares chthonic images in three cultural epic and folklore traditions - Yakut, Russian, and English. Despite some specific instances of asymmetrical chthonic features, there are, however, general and universal ones. Chthonic creatures, which initially resembled the wild and natural strength of the earth, as well as the underworld, and other similar notions, serve as mediators between the world of the dead and the world of the living. These mediators have the ability to exist in two worlds simultaneously...

Even now, 2,000 years after his disappearance, the Latin poet Ovidius Publius Naso continues to remain one of the most appreciated writers of verses that belong to the ancient Roman period. Considered to be one of the most influential sources of inspiration in European culture, Ovid's work and especially Metamorphoses stimulated the imagination of some of the greatest creators of universal culture in various artistic fields such as poetry, literature, visual arts, or music. In 1951, composer Benjamin Britten made ...

Two – thousandth years of history of Christianity proved that a main criterion of a value of church architecture was not based on architectural precursors. This architecture was sacred because it was a carrier of a „truth of God” and – like a liturgical mysterion and iconography art – it was a theological comment. It was a codified language of the transposes of religions essences and orders, into the form of architectural expression. This was in an East Christianity and this happens there up to this day. This pape...

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...

Preservation of monuments of cultural inheritance is one of the priorities of cultural policy all over the world. It is especially important to preserve historical monuments in the regions possessing unique specimen of world level cultural phenomena in their original interpretation, unusual for the capital city. Nowadays architectural monuments, which are at the same time objects of cultural heritage and part of the current city environment, need more careful attitude, protection and reconstruction of their histor...

Cultural heritage in a local and global perspective has a significant impact on the overall development of local communities as well as of the whole regions. The authors remind the sociological concept of culture, the importance of culture for society and for the identity of the individual. Culture is a product and expression of a particular social body, and at the same time it is the condition for its development. In common sense, culture is often understood very narrowly only as an aesthetic area. However, the s...

This paper presents the problem of performing some of the Chopin's Etudes op.10, keeping in mind the basic principles of pianistic interpretation. There are different aspects of interpretative parameters such as form, tempo, rhythm, sonority, phrasing, fingering, which taken together lead to a qualitative interpretation of any musical piece. The purpose of this article is not to offer an exhaustive writing on how to perform Chopin's Etudes op.10, but to present how to make use of those factors in order to achieve ...

The article analyzes the works performed by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, a Russian artist, whose artistic ascent took place at the turn of the 20th century while Russian intellectuals were actively engaged in identifying the specific features of Russian cultural identity. The article also provides a short description of the works by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin in the context of visual arts theory and performance. The analysis of the artist's works brings to light visual images of the Russian cultural identity that they ...

The Expressionism, a modern artistic and literary movement emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany, is characterized by a strong tendency to express inner feelings sometimes irrational, through tension, drama, subjectivity. In this paper, we approach the issue of the lyric expressionist theater, here represented by Erwartung monodrama of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, presenting it both from the point of view of the diversity of means of accomplishment, as well as of the stylistic and exp...

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...

This article is dedicated to the question of finding conceptual basis of prehistoric architecture. The author tried to discern the reasons why it came to existence and the principles of its functioning, as well as developing architectural spaces of permanent structures. The remains of ancient constructions, made from mammoths’ skulls, tusks and larger bones dug into the soil, served as the subject of the research. “Bone” structures like these are the phenomena of the Paleolithic era. These monuments of prehistoric...

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 ...

Based on field research over 2010-2016 with the use of J. Phinney's ethnic identity measurement methods, we have analyzed the modern ethnic identification and self-identification processes among the Evenks, Selkups, Kets, and Chulyms –indigenous peoples living on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai (Eastern Siberia) with a population of less than 50,000 persons. The conducted research allows us to identify the following processes: total loss of the knowledge of the native languages among the Chulyms, Selkups, an...

During the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu, remarkable achievements were recorded in architecture and painting. We shall meet the values of art and architecture in our country, in general, and especially those of the age of Saint Constantin Brâncoveanu, which has left its mark not just on the territory in Muntenia, as it also penetrated in Transylvania, crossed the Romanian western boundaries into Serbia and went up to Bessarabia. Today, the art of Brâncoveanu’s epoch is brought again to light by the monuments tha...

Although RPAS offer great advantages and creative possibilities, its use by the Creative Industries is still rare and focused on outdoor filming and photography. Until now, RPAS have been primarily designed for outdoor use by different end-users, in fields such as inspections, agriculture, real estate, security, etc. However, since existing RPAS lacks a precise, robust and affordable indoor positioning system as well as advanced safety features, the control of any RPAS in indoor environments is particularly diffic...

This paper presents the results of a research project seeking to assess how the several possibilities of a social psychology subject – the social representation of the subject – might contribute to the study of conservation and restoration, as well as to further analyse the relationships between the subjects involved in producing, promoting and preserving contemporary art: the artist, the public and the conservator-restorer. The study is part of a research project granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economics and C...

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...

This article examines the processes in which regional, national, and ethnic identities are formed in the area of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the city of Krasnoyarsk. In this context, great emphasis is placed on migration processes and the particular form of ongoing cultural interaction between the host population and migrants. An association experiment method that allows us to reveal and analyze consciousness-related attitudes and images combining intellectual, practical, and sensual experiences that are reflect...

Poland, as cultural and religious borderlands which are now, as in the past, a part of Latin, West Roman-Catholic, Greek-Slavic and East Orthodox culture, is a good place to apply comparative analyses of art of both Christian Churches: the Eastern and Western one. This paper presents selected examples of interaction between architecture, iconography and theology in contemporary sacred art of the last decade in Poland. It also shows the process of evolution of traditional spatial and functional structures and appli...

The portrait depicts the Romanian musician Cristian Misievici as an innovative, sensitive and intelligent composer as can be seen from his first works, the freshness of the techniques used serving the expression. Concerned with the sonorous time and space, the composer juggles with numerological symbolism and with the capacity of modal structures for metamorphosis. This is reflected in the use of proportions, symmetries and other laws of mathematical origin. The technicality of his language easily succeeds in avoi...

The paper examines historical transformations of the unique phenomenon of Soviet culture – the Recreation and Culture Park. Alongside with changing the Soviet ideological project into the specific culture of consumption, the Soviet park was transformed. The authors determine the stages of the Park development and characterize the peculiarities of this culture phenomenon in different periods. Originally, the Park intended to play a new role in the society. It should contribute to the creation of a new human being o...

The goal of this study is to determine the effectiveness of different erasers in performing dry cleaning on unvarnished monochrome samples (painted with acrylics, oils, alkyd oils and gouache). These samples are representative of the problem with modern monochrome works lacking any protective film that might prevent dirt from entering the paint surface--they require careful cleaning procedures taking into consideration the painting materials used, which in many cases are sensitive to certain solvents. For this rea...

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...

Today the name of Sebastiene Le Prêtre de Vauban is considered to be some kind of equivalent to the bastioned fortification itself. Of course his impact to the European fortification of the late XVII – early XVIII centuries was great. Nevertheless his ideas and his famous “three systems of fortification” were the result of the evolution of ideas that took place in France during the second half of the XVI - the early XVII centuries. Among the most prominent antecedents of Vauban there were J. Errard De Bar-le-Duc, ...

The oeuvre of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was influenced by the major tenets of Symbolism of the end of the XIX century and German Expressionism of the beginning of the XX century, which allowed the painter to express the depths of meaning of life through visual signs. The objective of our research is to determine the artistic concept of the paintings “Melancholy”, “Separation”, “The Dance of Life” by Edvard Munch as representants of his major cycle of works “The Frieze of Life”. The methodology of the resea...

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...

The Rose was the first purpose-built theatre on London Bankside. The playhouse was erected in 1587 as a theatre of Philip Henslowe. At the end of the XVI century, the Lord Admiral's Men moved to the Rose playhouse and performed there, attracting audiences, becoming popular and eventually prosperous. Rose’s repertory included plays of Marlowe, and Shakespeare. The Rose’s success encouraged other theatres to be built on Bankside; these new theatres overtook the Rose, which had been abandoned by 1606. The Globe becam...

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 article deals with the phenomenon of staginess in choral performance as an artistic device of enlivening academic music and stage performance. The authors’ research attitude is based on the interpretation of staginess as an effective device of enhancing communicative character of music, which manifests itself in the choral arts through the union of music and words, in which words are the script of a composition. The research was carried out on the basis of the following methods: cultural and historical method,...

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...

The contribution focuses on historical relationships of the development of vocal performance and vocal pedagogy in the second half of the 20th century, which is definitely based on the classical vocal performance and vocal pedagogy respecting the bel canto principle of singing. The Slovak vocal school fully respected the Italian bel canto principle of singing. The founding personality of the vocal pedagogy in Slovakia was a Czech violinist, composer, singer and teacher Josef Egem, who adopted the bel canto singing...

This article observes the Udagan's culture of the Yakuts. The authors concentrate on the study of the Udagan’s culture based on materials of the Yakut epos – Olonkho. The authors associate this phenomenon of culture with early religious ideas of the Yakuts and believe that it presents an early layer of culture. The word “udagan” as a term is referred to the languages of the Turkic-Mongolian, Tungus-Manchu peoples. However, the authors state that the Ugadan culture as a layer of culture is typical for the Yakuts an...

By the total work of art (gesamtkunstwerk) Wagner brings the myth back into focus by illud tempus hoping that in doing so he will re-sacralise the present time and space. Within the framework of the myths he approaches, the present paper deals with the feminine characters whose role is decisive in the unfolding of the Wagnerian drama. Every female character fits a conventional typologies, the present study bringing into question more than twenty such characters. Far from proposing a rigid typology, this analysis o...