The article considers the central film cycles of the contemporary Danish director and scriptwriter Lars von Trier (Golden Heart Trilogy, USA, Depression Trilogy). The author argues that the Danish artist’s creative work is to a significant extent inf...
The article considers the theme of World War II through the literary and artistic prism of the three waves of Russian emigration as a special area of ideological and philosophical differences. The author analyzes artistic and documentary texts by G. ...
The author maintains that his journey to Sakhalin provided Chekhov with a new perspective on a harsh reality that was little known to the public. This problem concerned Chekhov a lot, and after his trip he wrote a scholarly and statistical work about...
The paper considers the correlation between two literary works about Siberian hard labour: F. Dostoyevsky’s The House of the Dead and S. Tokarzewski’s memoirs Seven Years of Hard Labour. The authors use a comparative method to identify the archetypes...
The author regards A. P. Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island through the lens of contemporary post-colonial criticism. She focuses on the colonisation of the island, which Chekhov analysed from a variety of angles (the economic development of Sakhalin and its ...
The article examines the origin of bile and liver as somatic metaphors of the character’s emotional state and of the mode of satire in European and Russian literatures. Bile in fiction is a metaphor of the emotional state of the character, the narrat...
Chekhov’s awareness of Sakhalin’s problems, as well as his “stylistic misunderstandings” with those writers who had touched upon this topic before, already existed before his 1890 trip. However, both this circumstance and his preparation for the trip...
The article focuses on the expressive noun and verb phrases of the English language in some texts of modern British fiction. An analysis of the formal-structural, semantic, and functional aspects of the said constructions enables the author to reveal...
The author considers the evolution of the concept of “one’s own place” in Russian literature through the prism of works by N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoyevsky, and young writers of «the first wave» of Russian emigration. The article focuses on the meaning...
The review focuses on the initial stage of the Austrian literary tradition. The author analyzes the generic specificity of 19th century Austrian literature, as it is presented in the book under review, as well as the new narrative techniques that eme...
