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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...

“Stylistic synchronism” and “aesthetic analogy” are two of the most spectacular phenomena in the dynamics of the present-day artistic world which may acquire special (and even paradoxical!) connotations when they manifest “spontaneously” – i.e. involving no deliberative/predetermined factors. In this context, non-intentionality and, respectively, the absence of any individual attempt to relate to an antecedent (alternative) reference enhances the importance of identifying the stylistic and language vectors that sh...

The archaeologic site from Basarabi is digged into a lithological generated hill, consisting of chalks and chalky marnes, where Senonian occurs continuously over the Baremiene limestone from the valley Carasu flank, or over the Aptiene gravels. The limestone from Basarabi is compact, with variable thickness from 42 m to 95 m, and below them there are marl and limestone. It is white with flint nodule with 91% CaCO3. From geological and technical point of view, could be identified semi-hard rocks (limestone, limesto...

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...

The synthesis between the national folk tradition and the European musical tradition was performed in the Romanian culture with the contribution of great creative personalities. This synthesis is carried out differently from one culture to another, from one composer to another, either by following traditions or by consolidating the original and relevant language, which resulted in the shaping up of the national musical folklore cultures of the XXth century. Three piano parts op. 18 composed in 1933 by composer Mih...

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...

The inquiry we propose starts from the premise that classical music composers approached the texts of the psalms written almost 3 millennia ago and they rediscovered their meanings in spite of the social, territorial, linguistic, and religious changes which took place throughout history. Analyzing the musical scores of those who appealed to the text of Psalm 150, the aim of our research is to observe the multiple ways in which the psalm is musically represented in the history of music. Despite the different musica...

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...

The paper determines features of the Empire style in Russia before and after the Great fire of Moscow of 1812 during the war with Napoleon I. The Russian Empire style has generally three branches: Moscow, St Petersburg and provincial one with their specific features. The Imperial power established an elaborated system of model designs (more then a 1000 made by a team of architects of different nationalities) for a detailed typology of civil, military and private buildings and town planning elements made by the dec...

This study dealt with a possible dual origin of scepsis as a platform for critical thinking, which is connected with the very substance of philosophical research. The original question was whether there is a ‘pure scepsis’ as a zero point, which various thinkers can get closer to or further from depending on a particular case, or whether there are approaches which, although based on scepsis, are mutually incommensurable. To answer this complex question, we used interpretation using the combination of a nomological...

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 paper examines the significance of an individual identity in the context of the postmodern era. The analysis touches upon the subject of self-identity, which is treated as a processual, dynamic and contextual phenomenon. According to contemporary deliberations, it is risky to state that an identity is something that one can possess. It is better to speak of a continuous process of identifications that allows individuals to define themselves or others. Although an individual identity is seen as the result (“pro...

Culture is a set of codes that prescribe to a person a certain behavior with inherent experiences and thoughts, thus controlling him. Culture plays an important role for maintaining and reproducing material and spiritual values, as well as intellectual products of human activity. Reproduction of culture is very closely connected with the notion of “cultural potential”. Potential is a collection of available resources and opportunities in a certain area that can be used to achieve a certain goal or solve a specific...

The research focuses on the study and the identification of significant relationships between the observed peaks of the creative activity in such fields as art, music, literature, philosophy, science and technology. To establish the relationship between the development of cultural fields and development of society the structural-demographic theory was used, according to which a state goes through integration and disintegration phases during its existence. According to this, we propose the hypothesis that a phase o...

The images of permafrost and cold can be depicted through a combination of myths and ethno-cultural representations designed for self-determination and self-presentation of Arctic territories. Related to a multiplicity of images and conceptions in the contemporary culture of the peoples of the North, the symbol of the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) stands as a semantic nucleus in the Arctic zone. The fossilized animal of the Pleistocene period, through the discovery of remains in the permafrost, was introduced by...

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...

The Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia is one of the most known repertory drama theatres not only in Moscow and Russia but also in many countries of Europe, Asia and America. The creative life of the Vakhtangov theatre is rooted in the historical Russian culture, and at the same time it sets its gaze on the future. Just like Konstantin Stanislavsky, the world-known establisher of the Method, Evgeny Vakhtangov believed that the actor is the crucial element of any theatre performance. He also trusted that t...

The paper is dedicated to the topic of folk prose at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, in particular the issue of language and genre. Scientific interest in the folk literature launched on European soil since the mid-18th century. With a little delay the collection and study of folk culture gradually developed in our country, and the folk literature was at the forefront. Until then, the folk culture and art had remained beyond the official national culture. Within the national legitimacy and equality of Slova...

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...

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...

Forms of sensibility used for construction of the living world are not universal, but rather specific for different cultural traditions. They are informed by symbolic forms of a culture, and are constantly undergoing transformation. The dominant form of sensibility and the corresponding modes of vision, hearing etc., can be researched by analysing their representations within the manner of depiction of the visible, for instance, in painting or bas-relief. Extraction of the form pattern from artwork is possible by ...

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 ...

Frequent economical, political and cultural exchanges between German and Scandinavian people during the Middle Ages led to the large scale changes that affected many parts of people’s lives and resulted in the appearance of German-Scandinavian frontier culture with its specific features. This article, using the example of Middle German heroic epic “Das Nibelungenlied” and the corpus of adjoining texts that comprise “the legend of Nibelungs ” aims at describing how literature transgresses boundaries, how frontier l...

The article presents the results of a study of the formation and development of the system of professional qualifications in the Russian Federation. In this study, methods of expert estimations, the theoretical-methodological methods of generalization and synthesis, which allowed to make the authors’ estimation of the evaluation system of professional qualifications in the hospitality industry, and to develop recommendations for its amendment were used. The author's approaches to the description of professional qu...

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...

The article discusses the transformation of the concepts of sacredness in the context of the changing linguistic situation in Germany, due to specific historical conditions and the specificity of the German form of Protestantism. The formulation of commonlinguistic norm, prepared by the writings of Luther, accompanied the emergence of the German version of Christianity and caused the especial importance of national content. Exploring the series of events with the greatest impact on the development of axiological s...

In this paper, we consider the cult of horse in religious beliefs of the Yakut people, its role in the myth and epic traditions and its place in the ritual culture. We’ve attempted to make a cultural analysis of an image Horse and horse cult in traditional ritual culture of Yakut people from symbolic, semiotic and sacral point of view, i.e. horse is worshipping and honorable animal, that has sacral nature. In former times, every family keep a horse. Its’ pattern as symbol of traditional culture exists almost in al...

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 ...

Winter Romanian traditions have an outstanding complexity and include a variety of both melodic and choreographic species. Christmas ritually mask has a double significance: it unifies the earthly world with the one beyond – a Utopian agglutination between the living and the “departed”, and a second meaning which cares for the agrarian field. Tradition says that for 12 days the Romanian games, that include masks, have the special purpose to reorganize and renew the entire world. During Christmas Eve and Christmas ...

This study investigates the rural population distribution in the Republic of Tatarstan. This article considers the rural population and settlements of Tatarstan Republic in terms of development and distribution factors from 1950ies to the present day. The paper analyzes the main factors influencing the placement of rural settlements such as geographic, demographic, natural, transportational, economic and socio-domestic. The authors have examined the rural population migration as well as changes in the rural popula...

Ceremonies and algys devoted to the goddess Aiyysyt are considered in the article. The Yakut goddess-mother Aiyysyt in the functions and appointments corresponds to goddesses: Turkic Umay - Umay-ene (kumadin.), Ymay-ene (kachinsk.), Mau-ene (teleut.) and Old Indian Wuma, and also Old Iranian Arta (avestiysky - Asha). In Yakut mythology Akhtar Aiyysyt, either Nalygyr Aiyysyt, or Nelbey Aiyysyt is the goddess caring for reproduction of people. She together with Ieyekhsit asks Yuryung Aar Toyon to a soul (iye-kut) of...

The purpose of the article was to highlight the aspects in which faith and superstition, or attention to the invisible world, emerged in people’s lives in medieval times as illustrated in Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth. We wanted to establish how much weight the world of the unseen bore in the Middle Ages. The scrutiny has fallen on this subject in the above-mentioned piece of literature, as this novel is one of the most prominent on medieval times in recent years and is part of academic curricula, so it w...

Based on the analysis of the musical works this article deals with the peculiarities of the art of modern composers of the Republic of Tatarstan (Anatoly Luppov, Rashid Kalimullin, Leonid Lyubovsky), originally refracting the traditional musical material belonging to the radical ethnoses of the Volga region (the Slavic, Finno-Ugric and Turkic people). It is revealed that composers create highly artistic samples of symphonic, stage, chamber-instrumental, vocal and choral music on the basis of artistic-figurative, g...

“Global tenderness” by F. M. Dostoyevsky, the idea of “overallunity” by V. S. Solovyev and other Russian thinkers make traditional basis of Russian culture. The main features of Russian national character are constant desire and ability to promptly turn “foreign in own” and, in addition to their own discoveries, foreign borrowing also transform in the “primordial beginnings”, and privately ideas give universal content. A. A. Bogdanov — one of the most original XX century Russian thinkers — aspired to the system kn...

Over the period of 2010-2017, field research has been conducted in the territories of the Siberian Arctic in Eastern Siberia. The field research was conducted in different northern settlements, including the rural settlement of Khatanga inhabited by the Dolgans. The Dolgans are a small-numbered, indigenous people of the North and Siberia. The settlement of Khatanga is situated in the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, within Russian Arctic territory. During the study, the post-S...

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...

“The typology of the classical sonata reflects, with distinct intensity, the great theme of the classical age: the art of leading musical ideas.” [1] After Beethoven, the sonata became an ideal of the composing conception, that could only be accessed by the creators following the “pure” music. Romanticism represented, on a certain level, a regression of rigorous structural organizational efforts in instrumental music, this decline being due to the views of romantic composers upon the tonal system, the relations of...

The glance we threw at the cinema production Life of Pi intended to reveal various aspects connected with the topic of spirituality and the problems raised by the story in this sense and in connection with the concept of truth. We had taken up this analysis because we noticed the predominance of aspects linked with the spiritual, which is an ever-present strain at the back of the characters’ minds no matter how trivial the subject of a given conversation. Also, the way the notion of truth became problematic but at...

The indigenous peoples of Eastern Siberia are being affected by a host of global changes. Their traditional culture is particularly vulnerable to global expansion, urbanization, and the influence of modern popular culture. These peoples' modern existence depends on political management undertaken by the federal and regional governments in the territories where the indigenous peoples are boxed in. In 2010-2016, field research was conducted in the regions of Eastern Siberia inhabited by the aboriginal peoples, inclu...

Scholars have lately displaying constantly growing interest in the role of the woman in music and in the specificity of women music making. These subjects are considered both in broad terms and as concrete phenomena. It seems to be expedient to try to combine the above subjects and by the example of a particular phenomenon – the Vietnamese female ca tru singing to trace some typological community with other traditions of female music making in countries of the Far East and partly South East Asia. Generally, three ...

The article deals with the issues of revitalization of Olonkho in the dawn of the 21st century. The authors emphasize that the recognition of UNESCO's Olonkho as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind was part of the process in the revival and popularization of Olonkho in contemporary cultural space. The authors believe that organizing folklore festivals dedicated to the Yakut epic of Olonkho, as well as the Yhyakh New Year holidays in the uluses, contributes to the revitalization of the epic...

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 purpose of scientific research is the study of acoustic Landscape as part of the national culture. The Old Tatar settlement is one of the historic districts of Kazan; the architectural ensemble consisting of mosques which were the main location of social life of Tatars. We applied the methods of audio and video recordings, study of historical materials, descriptions, and recollections of old residents of this historical and cultural center of Kazan; the method of emotional immersion in the sound environment fo...