Vol 4, No 3 (2023)

Extrahuman authorities are a leading guideline for expanding the inner world of man, so conceptualizing ideas about them seems to be an important methodological task. At the transcendental level, there must be some ciphers of perception that open the way for their comprehension. The author of the article proves that these ciphers are the original modalities of culture; the key position among them is occupied by the Elements of the inner world, Language and Game. The poetic rhythm and actualization of the original state of the language as poetry should be considered as separate milestones on the path of ecstatic worldview, which has transcendent or extrahuman instances with its marginal horizon.

For contemporary drama of the turn of the XXth-XXIst centuries creative reception has become one of the leading author’s strategies. In the creative activity of playwrights of different ‘schools’ and directions, there appear works that directly or indirectly come into a dialogue with texts of their predecessors, which becomes productive or creative reception of classical plots of Russian literature. The work of Leo Tolstoy is no exception; Tolstoy legacy as well as his very personality have frequently agitated modern authors. The article deals with some examples of the reception of Leo Tolstoy’s works in modern drama and theater regarding whether the writer’s poetics involves creation of texts designed for game of imagination, parody, play with the reader.

The study deals with the poetics and interpretation of the poem of the white emigrant poet S.S. Bekhteev «Nicholas II». Special attention is paid to the meaning of the epigraph and the author’s comments. The work reveals the semantic content of the key motifs of the poem associated with the sacralization of the image of the last Russian Emperor. Evangelical reminiscences are revealed, a characteristic of the semantic motif of holiness is given in its relation to the motifs of atonement for the sin, suffering, love, sacrifice, sacred retribution. Parallels are drawn between the image of the Russian Emperor and the image of Christ; allusions to literary texts of the 19th century, which meaningfully reveal the motive of treason, are presented.

One of the promising research projects of the State Institute for Art Studies at the present stage is the preparation of the academic publication of S.I. Taneev’s cantata John of Damascus. Paradoxically, so far there has been no single holistic study of this choral masterpiece that reveals the creative process of the composer - from sketches to the lifetime edition of the score (1904) and the clavier (1886) of this composition. The authors of the article focus on the historical factors that prevented the appearance of an academic publication of the cantata, give a review of musical, verbal and epistolary sources, consider the history of the study and publication of S.I. Taneev’s heritage in the XX^th century in connection with the current problems of Taneev’s work study.

During the epoch-making transition to early state (potestar) formations, the appeal to all kinds of ritual and imitative practices intensified. Imitative rituals were widely used by carriers of Sapalli culture in southern Uzbekistan in the IInd millennium BC. The article considers the features and semantic positions of the phenomenon of ritual imitation in the sociocultural process and funerary practice of post-primitive society based on artifacts of the early urban settlement of Djarkutan and its necropolises (mainly excavation materials from 1985-1992). Djarkutan is the largest early urban center of Proto-Bactrian civilization, in the cultural environment of which a new system of socio-regulatory relations and values was formed. The author explains some aspects of ritual transformation and symbolic exchange based on the funeral rite of Sapalli culture.

Book recommendation services, promptly reflecting the development of readers’ demands, are an important means of updating library funds. This study is devoted to the prospects for using Internet resources of this profile in library and bibliographic activities and has been carried out based on an electronic thematic collection of popular scientific literature posted on the website of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors analyze Russian and foreign publications on recommendation systems, consider their species classification in connection with the library and information sphere; propose an original definition of the term “book recommendation service”. Based on the results of the survey undertaken at the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, conclusion has been made that readers, while choosing scientific and educational literature, are in need not only for extended bibliographic information, but also for recommendation services available online.

The study of interaction of various actors of communication is necessary for understanding its driving force, identifying cause and effect relationships in the field of publication, distribution and perception of various texts. The author examines the role of communication in the book process, the dynamics of its forms in the historical and cultural context, starting from the birth of literature up to the modern era of digital communications. An increase in readers’ autonomy from traditional cultural mediators and an increase in the role of informal reading leaders in conditions of the Internet space development.