Vol 23, No 4-1 (2021)

The article shows how the modern socio-cultural situation dictates new requirements for the educational paradigm: there is a need to use information and communication technologies (ICT), various forms of distance and e-learning in the educational process, which in turn contributes to an increase in the mobility of all participants in the learning process. processing of intensive information flows. The most demanded and productive on this path are innovative educational technologies. The article focuses on the use of the VKontakte social network for conducting a training scientific seminar for students, undergraduates, graduate students. The authors proceed from their own work experience, on the basis of which they propose a methodology for conducting an online event aimed at popularizing scientific knowledge and using the capabilities of a social network. The article reveals how network services help create a unified educational space for the creative and scientific realization of students.

The article deals with the importance of studying interdisciplinary relationships in teaching literature at a university. On the example of the author's academic course working program "Literature and Cinematography in School Education", the main methods of working with students in the studied discipline are shown, attention is drawn to the importance of this subject in the training of future teachers of the Russian language at the Pedagogical Department at the university.

The object of the article is the wood-spirit code in the Russian verbal culture. The subject is the symbolic meaning of a sallow, willow in the Russian folklore and literature. The material for the article is the poetic heritage of A.M. Zhemchuzhnikov whose 200th jubilee we celebrate this year. The ethos of life and death in the poet’s lyrics yields to hermeneutic reconstruction. Special attention is paid to the poetic cycle “Rural impressions and sketches” with its images of a sallow or a sallow alley - the dendronyms analysed closely as a system. The methodology of the research centres on holistic ontohermeneutical analysis aimed at highlighting the apophatic paradigm of the given literary material. Parallels with the Russian folklore, lullabies and children’s games are drawn. The results lie in identification of the cultural potential of dendronyms, in particular the sallow, willow, osier, that have a different-worldly semantics and act as a means of conveying initiatory transmissions in the verbal culture. The work results can also be used in teaching courses on the Russian culture, 19th-century poetry and philosophy.

The article gives an idea of ambivalent relation of Swizz writer Gottfried Keller to Heinrich Heine as person and poet. The object of the analyzes is Keller’s big poem “Der Apotheker von Chamounix”, containing both parody on the habits and features of Heine’s artificial world and respect to his person and sympathy for his suffering as well. The matter of satiric derisions is in Keller’s poem the last cycle of Heine’s ballades “Romancero”, whose poetic world gave G.Keller reasons for the parody against some features of Heine’s artificial world. Keller’s satiric poem is divided into two parts with different functions and unlike plots. In the first of them is presented the love triangle between inhabitants of a Swiss settlement Chamounix, everybody of which perished in an implausible death with following transition into the life beyond the grave. The main character of the second part of Keller’s poem are the poet H.Heine himself and figures of his dead literary teachers and opponents, whom Heine encounters during his visit in the paradise. In contradiction to Heine’s antagonists Platen and Börne, both great educators Goethe and Lessing show their sympathy to “Romancero”’s author. The poet Keller mocks over Heine as a figure and the author, but sympathizes with him as a great poet and estimated person. The second part of the poem is connected with the first one only by the figure of the girl Klara from Chamounix, who became in the second part free from her lover sins and left now her place in the purgatory for the “catholic” poet H.Heine.

The article comprehensively examines the "Story of a novel" - one of the most read and underestimated in the stage cycle of M. Gorky "Stories of 1822-1924" - on the writer's way to the final book "The Life of Klim Samgin". At first glance, a humorously ironic story reveals a complex of conceptual problems, helps to identify the features of the writer's creative laboratory in his attitude to historical reality, to the laws of artistic creativity, the peculiarities of revealing the inner world of a person, his gender component, and socio-cultural status.

The article examines the works of E. Haywood, as the author of novels, the publisher of three women's magazines that laid the groundwork for the culture of women's creativity in English literature of the XVIII century. Her name is called among the first authors of a women's novel, which is still interpreted from a gender perspective in modern science as a socio-cultural phenomenon that represents the world through the eyes of women. Nevertheless, the authors of the article note the serious influence of men's literature on the work of the writer who was passionate about politics and social reforms. Special attention is paid to such genre modification of the novel as "secret histories", the predecessor of "the novel with the key". It is noted that what is new in "secret histories" is the shift in the angle of perception of the text itself, filled with facts about certain historical events and people, which were taken from various kinds of insinuations, as a rule, it had nothing to do with the real history, but attracted the reader with their variations in the relationships of the characters. Slander becomes the subject of the depiction, and its possessors represent heroes (antiheroes) through the prism of the certain moral values, including the state ones. For the first time in Russian literary criticism, the authors acquaint the reader to the "secret histories" of E. Haywood, novels “The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania”(1726), “Memories of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia” (1725 - 26), “The Advantures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijavea; a pre-Adamitical History” (1736) in the context of women's prose in England in the XVIII century. The analysis of the novel “The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania” as the most vivid example of the "secret histories" by E. Haywood is offered. The material of the article will be of interest to the specialists, as well as to those who are interested in the development of the female genre of the novel in the literature of England during the Enlightenment.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the narrative structure of the novel «Leonardo's Handwriting» by the modern writer Dina Rubina. It examines the basic concepts of narratology (author, narrator, subject of speech, etc.) based on the works of B.O.Korman, V. Schmid. Scientific novelty lies in the analysis and definition of the functions of a complex system of narrative units in the text which is studied. The novel "Leonardo's Handwriting" is characterized by different ways of organizing the narrative space, each of which performs an important function for the perception of the novel. The author of the article classifies the chapters of the novel in terms of their narrative structure, analyzes individual episodes of the novel in which narrators are identified, reveals cases of intersection of narrators in a narrow narrative space and events that are considered from the point of view of different narrators. As a result of the study, it was determined that the narrative structure of Dina Rubina's novel «Leonardo's Handwriting» is complex and polyphonic, which allows performing many functions that are important for a work of art (revealing characters, indicating the concept of the novel, etc.).

This article considers Prof. T.M. Akimova's contribution in collecting the Great Patriotic War songs in Saratov and its region as well as their studying and popularisation among the public in general and students in particular. Also the author of this paper analyses the Great Patriotic War songs both as one of the issues in Prof. Akimova's research and the peculiarities of her style.

The article deals with the problems of Soviet justice, reflected in the prose by Yury Dombrovsky. Based on historical information, the author examines how the prose by Yury Dombrovsky reflected such problematic aspects of Soviet justice in the 1930s as: politicization, lack of objectivity, baselessness of the accusation, etc.

The article examines the attitude of V. I. Maikov to the philosophical category of hope on the example of the ode of the same name, which reflects the moral and ethical search of the poet-mason: faith in absolute happiness through hope for the best. The article highlights the categories of people that can be divided into groups. The first group includes people whose hope is connected with the state, and the second group includes those who hope for personal good. The analysis examines the Masonic ideology, which in Russia is closely intertwined with Christianity, examines the artistic expression of the philosophical category of hope in V. I. Maikov's ode, and reveals the connection of this category with the concepts of happiness and faith. As a result of the research, some images-symbols of the ode associated with the Masonic views of the poet are concretized, the moral and philosophical motives of the ode and the anthropological essence of the category of "hope" in the view of the Russian

The article deals with I. Turgenev's Skafftym understanding and practical recommendations for its study, which began with the publication of draft materials on the topic in the sixth issue of Skaftym readings (Moscow, 2020). The subject of consideration is another part of the handwritten notes of the 1920s, which testifies to the ongoing acquaintance of the researcher with the anniversary Turgene studies and to intensive preparation for the work of a special seminar on the works of L. Tolstoy. The fragmentary publication of new materials is being carried out for the first time.

Object of the article: the poem “Poetry” by N.M. Karamzin. Subject of the article: meaning of “the text within a text” in Karamzin's “Poetry”. Purpose of research: to show that “a text within a text” structure in Karamzin's poem is based on “false quotations” i.e. when the “author's” text is presented in the form of ”another author's text” (quotation). Research methods: methods of comparative and structural-semantic analysis applied. Results: the author argues that the author (Karamzin) is hiding behind literary masks of Shakespeare and Klopstock. Field of application: literary studies. Conclusion: the structure of Karamzin's “Poetry” is based on the interaction between the “author's text” and the texts of the other authors.

The article analyzes Derzhavin’s play “A fool is smarter than the clever”. The study of the plot, the typology of characters, poetics, and the musical scale allows discovering an opera-buff and early Russian vaudeville of the early 19th century in the genesis of the play.

The subject of the article is the peculiarities of sentimentalism in one of W. Godwin's early novels "Imogen". The author comes to the conclusion that, relying on the traditional understanding of sentimental pastoralism (the leading role of nature in the "bucolic" or "Georgian" understanding, the use of a pastoral chronotope, idealization of the pastoral lifestyle, the depiction of platonic feelings between heroes, the presence of pastoral conflicts), W. Godwin uses these features as a background to illustrate his socio-political ideas. He widely uses the technique of contrast, building a system of conflicts on its basis, complicates the nature of the characters and the relationships between them, making them more contradictory, and experiments with style and genre canons. As a result, the originality of the author's perception of sentimentalism in the pastoral novel "Imogen" lies in the mixture of typically sentimental features and the author's specific socio-political worldview. In addition, while writing the novel, the writer's style is still in development, which also leaves an imprint on the manifestation of a sentimental basis in the work.

The paper deals with the problem of translating a classical epic text into the language of drama. Based on the material of the plays of Asya Voloshina, it is proved that the modern playwright enters into a dialogue with his predecessor in order to see the classics in the context of the "big time". In the play "Gogol's Overcoat", the text of the original source is presented as part of the St. Petersburg text. The latter discovers new meanings of Gogol's story.