The article deals with the semantics of metapoetic term and metapoetic metaphor in the artistic and academic discourse of Georgy Shengeli, poet and versification expert. The paper scrutinizes a complex of metaphors used ...

The article focuses on the concept of body representation in Vasily Aksyonov’s short novel Colleagues and in Aleksei Sakharov’s 1962 film of the same title. The new ways in which the body began to be represented during the ...

The article is devoted to the to the Northern myth, markedly present in the poetry of Nikolai Gumilyov. The poems included in the book Bonfire (1918) are of most interest. The external reason for writing this kind of ...

The article is dedicated to the issue of the title in poetry about photography. Based on the analysis of Russian, Polish and American poetry the author raises the question of a correlation between the title and the ...

The article is a continuation of discussions about the changes that the literary image of Don Juan undergoes at present in online literature. Appealing to literary classics is quite common in the works of Internet authors. ...

The article reflects the experience of using the original software system “Hypertext Search for Companion-Words in Author’s Texts”, which allows one to find recurrent lexical combinations in the work of an author (the ...

The subject of research is the poetics of Irina Polyanskaya’s story “Penal” (“The Pencil Case”). Deliberations on the specific character of a “feminine mode” of writing (cf. Helene Cixous) usually mention an enhanced ...

The article deals with the absorption of Nikolai Gumilyov’s poetics and biographical legend in Vladimir Nabokov’s short story “Port”. The great importance of Gumilyov’s works and personality for the emigre writer makes it ...

The article is dedicated to the study of distinct features of Nikolai Kolyada’s play Baba Chanel [The Hag Chanel], with the view to defining the piece’s genre. The author, referencing work of other scholars, pays attention ...

The article is devoted to comparing Mayakovsky’s “adult” texts with his poems written for children. Having analyzed three of the latter – “A Fairy Tale About Petya, a Fat Boy, and Sima, Who Is Thin” (1925), “The Little ...