Contemporary Literary Works Research Articles

Analysis on the Countermeasures of Cultivating Innovative Thinking in the Appreciation of Contemporary Literary Works

Due to the widespread dissemination of contemporary literary works, there is a serious shortage of contemporary literary works appreciating talents. Therefore, more and more attention has been paid to cultivating contemporary literary appreciation and creative thinking ability. In the article, the basic requirements for the appreciation of contemporary literary works, the problems in contemporary teaching, the importance and necessity of innovative thinking, and the analysis of countermeasures for the cultivation of innovative thinking talents, suggest that the main aspects of teaching should be improved, curriculum designing, and resources usage, etc., to realize the improvement and development of the ability to respond to innovative literary works from multiple aspects and levels, and to further meet the needs of contemporary social development.

Recasting Scottish Fisherwomen in Song: Baroness Nairne’s “Caller Herrin’”

ABSTRACT During the Victorian period, Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne) was instrumental in revising negative stereotypes of Scottish fisherwomen circulating in contemporary literary works, such as Walter Scott’s The Antiquary (1816), Robert Tannahill’s “Caller Herrin” (1808/1876), and Charles Reade’s Christie Johnstone (1853). Her art-trade song “Caller Herrin’” (ca. 1821–24), which she wrote to accompany Nathaniel Gow’s air (1798 or 1799), elevates empathy over parody and deflects ridicule of Newhaven’s working fisherwomen. This article argues that Nairne’s song influenced audiences far beyond the insular community it portrays, both empowering the voices of these Scottish working-class women and underscoring the rich plurality of female experience. Building upon recent scholarship about Nairne and the significance of the song tradition in imagining the Scottish nation, I contextualize a close reading of “Caller Herrin’” by exploring work by British reviewers, contemporary writers and musicians, and innovative photographers Robert Adamson and David Octavius Hill, whose sociological documentation of the Newhaven community informed fictional portrayals of fisherwomen. The abiding representation of these forthright Scottish women and their recognizable song counters more dominant narratives about Scotland and leaves an enduring musical legacy that expands understandings of Newhaven’s vibrant fisherwomen.

Структура высказывания и система языковых коммуникативных средств: на материале современных художественных произведений

Структура высказывания и система языковых коммуникативных средств: на материале современных художественных произведений

Introduction. ‘La honte de la France’: Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions

Michel Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions are widely recognised in media and criticism as contributing to his renown as an author today. The deeper significance of cultural transgressions in Houellebecq’s work is a rich seam for exploration, which was undertaken during a symposium on 29 September 2018. This article traces the conceptualisation of our approach and develops a framework for understanding transgression in the context of Houellebecq’s work. It then introduces six of the papers presented at the symposium which examine the notion of transgression not only as the process of crossing social and generic boundaries, but also as a means of assuming and overcoming the constraints placed upon contemporary literary works. Rather than assigning Houellebecq to a given artistic, cultural or political viewpoint, we ask what we can learn from Houellebecq’s cultural transgressions.

UKRAJINSKI PISCI I KNJIŽEVNA DJELA KAO FAKTOR KOMUNIKACIJSKE DIMENZIJE UKRAJINSKOGA JEZIKA U HRVATSKOME KONTEKSTU – TRANSLITERACIJA I ADAPTACIJA

Communicational dimension of particular language, that is not native or L1 language, is conditioned geographically and by sociohistorical factors, such as shared state and state language. Communicational dimension of Ukrainian language in Croatian context is variable, in most cases the knowledge of Ukrainian realia or simply acquaintance with the basic information is on a zero level, especially beyond the academic circle. Though Ukrainian and Croatian language belong to common language family, there was no any geographical connection between them after the settlement of Slavs in the Early Middle Ages. There was no physical contact, only the political one: the West part of modern Ukraine (Galicia region) was a part of a common Austro-Hungarian Empire including regions of Croatia and Slavonia. Ukrainian Galicia is a shared historical component for Ukrainian and Croatian context in the Great War. Communicational dimension of Ukrainian language in Croatian context is channeled by Russian language and Russian literature. Communicational dimension of Ukrainian language raises from a zero level in the last decade of the 21st century. We shall ignore amplitudes on a zero level connected with temporarily football championships, which throw a short-term light on Ukrainian trivia. The first decade shows the intention to upgrade the level of communicational dimension related to Ukrainian language with a help of Ukrainian contemporary literary works translations. Proper names of Ukrainian authors with their works potentially should widen communicational dimension of Ukrainian language in a Croatian context, at least in the culturological context. However, the result is an opposite one.

Roxelane Imaginée : Étude Sur L'Image Contemporaine D'une Sultane

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun önemli tarihi kişilikleri içinde, Batılıların Muhteşem diye adlandırdıkları Kanunî Sultan Süleyman ve onun eşi Roxelane, Kanunî’nin hüküm sürdüğü 16. yüzyıldan günümüze dek tiyatro yapıtı, roman, opera, bale türlerinde sayısız esere kaynaklık etmiş, bu yönüyle toplumsal imgelemi besleyen temel bir gönderge durumuna gelmiştir. Kanunî’nin ve Roxelane’ın yaşamından esinlenerek yaratılan ve beş yüz yıla yayılan yapıtlar aracılığıyla tarihsel, toplumsal ve kültürel bir bakımdan Roxelane konusunda, toplumun güç konusunda ilgi odağını, algısını, tutumunu vb. yansıtan sayısız imge yaratılmıştır. Dolayısıyla bu çalışmada kadınların rollerinin alabildiğine kısıtlanmış olduğu bir uzamda, ortamda güç sahibi olmayı başarmış ve o güçle toplumsal imgelemde yer etmiş Roxelane “imgesi” üzerinde durulacaktır. Yapıtlarda gündeme gelen söz konusu imge aracılığıyla, daha çok kadınların yönetimde olmadıkları bir imparatorlukta “yöneten” ve erk sahibi güçlü bir kadın arketipi yaratılmıştır. Söz konusu imge toplumsal olmakla kalmayıp evrenselleşmiş, 16. yüzyılda ülkelerini yönetmiş Catherine de Médicis, Mary Tudor ve Elizabeth Tudor gibi isimlere “güçlü kadın” imgeleriyle yakınlaştırılmış, toplumsal bellekte onlar gibi ayırıcı bir biçimde yer etmiştir. Yaratılan imge özellikle kurgusalın alanında dönüştürülerek geniş bir yer bulmuştur. Buna göre toplumsal bellekte yer etmiş Roxelane imgesinin Isaure de Saint Pierre’in La Magnifique (Muhteşem) (2004) romanında ve Özen Yula Gayri Resmi Tarihe Göre Hurrem Sultan’dan Adap Erkân Dersleri veya Gayri Resmi Hurrem (1998) başlıklı tiyatro yapıtında hangi bakımlardan yeniden yaratıldığı ve hangi işlevlerle yeniden kullanıldığı özellikle J.J. Wunenburger’in imge konusundaki tanımlamalarına koşut olarak incelenmektedir.

The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma by Monica Osborne

Reviewed by: The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma by Monica Osborne Kathryn Ludwing Monica Osborne. The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma. Lexington Books, 2018. ix + 175 pp. In The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma, Monica Osborne identifies in discourse surrounding trauma a seemingly irreconcilable gap between the imperative to remember and the impossibility of knowing. She writes, “Attempts to represent the Holocaust violate its memory” (xv). In the face of this difficulty, Osborne urges a shift away from representational modes and draws attention to the potential of the ancient Jewish tradition of Midrash to inform a literary response to the experience of trauma. A midrashic response, she explains, bears witness to what is lost by attending to silences and gaps—by acknowledging absence—rather than attempting to recreate or re-present the unknowable. Osborne shows the midrashic impulse already at work in contemporary literature and makes a powerful case for the value of a midrashic reading to the task of grappling with the traumas of both past and present. Osborne argues that the desire to respond to the horror of the Holocaust must be checked by the awareness that no adequate response is possible. Taking as her starting point Theodor Adorno’s famous injunction against poetry after Auschwitz, Osborne explains how efforts at representation become a substitute for the act of bearing witness and, in fact, increase the distance between us and the event. She writes, “We attempt, through representation, to fill the gaps and wounds left behind by traumatic moments, when perhaps we should consider allowing the wounds to speak for themselves” (101). According to Osborne, an ethical response to the trauma must begin with failure—with a recognition that any effort to articulate the trauma will fall short or even transgress. [End Page 793] Rather than suggesting that we abandon the work of poetry, however, Osborne points to the example of the ancient rabbinic tradition of Midrash, in which the gaps or “wounds” (xxxv) in a text are invitations to dialogue. Midrash involves creating material extensions of a text by “imagining the stories we don’t know—stories that reside in the gaps” (xvii). In a chapter entitled “Midrashic Reading and Trauma” (which includes a valuable primer on midrashic reading), Osborne effectively demonstrates how the midrashic mode warrants application beyond the realms of Jewish exegesis. She points to works by scholars such as Daniel Boyarin, Gerald Bruns, and Geoffrey Hartman, who bring midrashic thinking into contact with literary criticism. According to Osborne, these scholars teach us how to read. Osborne’s own aim seems to be to teach us how to read trauma. She places existing discourse on midrashic reading in conversation with Maurice Blanchot’s and Emmanuel Levinas’s works on ethical reading. According to Blanchot, the Holocaust is the disaster that shatters. We can only respond ethically if we resist the urge to create a cohesive narrative and bear witness to the trauma by making darkness visible. Osborne argues that this occurs when a text allows for the disruption of what Levinas calls “le dit” (the said) by “le dire” (the saying) (xxiv)—that is to say, the intrusion upon representation by nonrepresentation. In the chapters that follow, Osborne demonstrates how this midrashic mode is available in many contemporary literary works. She invites us to notice what is unsaid in a literary text by attending to silences, spaces, and fragmented or multivoiced narratives. Osborne models a shift away from patterns of reading in which we only know a text to be about the trauma of the Holocaust if it presents us with the too-familiar and too-graphic images of tortured bodies and camps encircled in barbed wire. In a chapter dedicated to the works of Cynthia Ozick, for example, Osborne identifies Rosa’s muffled scream in “The Shawl” as a moment when the failure of language before atrocity is foregrounded, and her reading of Ozick’s other works demonstrates how that scream echoes throughout the author’s oeuvre. Osborne suggests that what many critics have labeled as “postmodern” (43) in Ozick’s work are textual markers of her struggle with the task of...

ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЕ КАТЕГОРИЙ ЛИЦА, ЧИСЛА И МОДАЛЬНОСТИ В ИРРЕАЛЬНЫХ КОНСТРУКЦИЯХ МАКЕДОНСКОГО ЯЗЫКА

The paper provides an in-depth analysis of functional features of the analytical first-person singular da-construction in the standard Macedonian language. When it is used in an independent clause, the daconstruction has a wide range of modal meanings, the most common of which are imperative and optative. The interaction of the grammatical categories of person, number and modality in the da-construction leads to changes in its meaning and shows its functional potential to indicate the speaker’s communicative intentions. The chosen semasiological approach to describing the da-construction is combined with the functional analysis and the communicative-pragmatic approach. The research material consists of about 200 examples gathered from contemporary Macedonian literary works and journalistic articles. 1. Da-construction has a full non-defective conjugation paradigm with an imperative meaning, where the first singular verb form has a special status. Directive speech acts, where imperative forms are usually used, are not supposed to combine a speaker and an addressee in one person, which causes semantic modification of the da-construction with a 1Sg verb: initially related to the imperative analytical paradigm, it describes the speaker’s intention to perform an action which he / she considers necessary. In addition, this type of construction marks a point in decision- making that is followed by the change of the speaker’s cognitive status; the only exception is the da-construction including verbs of perception, which points to an indirect causation of the addressee. 2. Independent 1Sg da-constructions with speech verbs and cognitive verbs tend to become idiomatic in meaning, which causes their use as discourse markers. Functioning as metacommentary, they help the speaker to direct the dialogue according to his/her communicative intentions. 3. The interaction of grammatical categories in the optative da-construction transforms curses to vows that have a function to confirm the truth of the speaker’s words and his / her commitment to face consequences in case of lying.

Medialny, święty. Jan Paweł II w poezji współczesnej

John Paul II is not only a writer, but also an extremely popular hero of contemporary literary works. Some poets interestingly problematise the issue of the presence of the Pope’s figure in the media. Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poem transfers our attention from a single television frame to a reflection on the role of the media in our digital world. In contrast, the lyrics of Roman Bąk first contain a caricatured image of the media and show the Pope-prophet and mystic in the second part of his diptych.

Language behavior and language firmness of Ukrainians under Russian-Ukrainian war (after the novel “Daughter” by Tamara Gorikha Zernia)

The Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in Donbas region exacerbated and highlighted the problems of linguistic, national, cultural and civic identity, language behavior and language firmness during the war, when the Ukrainian language becomes not only a means of communication but also a means of preserving identity and resistance to the language of conquerors. An important source for studying these issues and some of their aspects are literature and art works dedicated to the events in Eastern Ukraine. The purpose of the article is to attempt to characterize the language behavior of Ukrainians under the Russian-Ukrainian war in Eastern Ukraine, to identify the examples of the language firmness and to determine the reasons that influence on the choice of language code under mentioned circumstances, based on the materials of a contemporary literary work. The article uses descriptive and contextual-interpretive methods to describe and analyze the material of the study as well as to summarize the results. The study is based on a novel by the writer and volunteer Tamara Gorikha Zernia (the real name of the author is Tamara Duda) “Daughter”, which reproduces the events of spring and summer 2014 – the beginning of the war and the occupation of a part of Donbass region. The plot is based on true stories that happened to real people, as well as the testimonies of eyewitnesses and participants in the events. The analysis of the novel “Daughter” by Tamara Gorikha Zernia made it possible to study the characteristic manifestations of the language behavior of Ukrainians under the Russian-Ukrainian war. The predominant Russian-speaking of Donbass is the result of a purposeful Russification policy of the region during the Soviet era, and it was the language factor that became one of the reasons for the success of the Russia’s information and propaganda campaign and armed aggression. The work reflects the perception by Donetsk residents of the Ukrainian language, Ukraine, Ukrainian national tradition, which is far from being unambiguous. At the same time, with the help of appropriate language strategies chosen by the author, it is emphasized that the war in Donbass region is primarily for Ukrainian identity. Language firmness is a characteristic feature of the communicative behavior of the main character of the work, who together with the like-minded people joined the struggle to defend their country. Language is presented as a means of preserving one’s own identity as well as the “friend-or-foe” marker, an internal factor that clearly identifies the position of the participants in the events described in the novel. Keywords: language behavior, language firmness, Donbass region, Russification, language and national identification, “friend-or-foe” opposition, information aggression.

‘Fictions of the Internet’: From Intermediality to Transmedia Storytelling in 21st-Century Novels by Anna Weigel-Heller

 Reviews are omitted. She had five children, for example, yet the oen all-encompassing act of mothering gets barely a mention—except as a sort of timeline-marking event here and there. Is this a success of the study, or a failure? ere is almost no time to answer, as the book is busy pursuing the erasure of superstructures at large. e book is generous in pointing out routes of access to such gorgeously complex poetry, refusing to keep the signs of Di Prima’s magic to itself. U  R Y S ‘Fictions of the Internet’: From Intermediality to Transmedia Storytelling in stCentury Novels. By A W-H. (Research on Alternative Varieties of Exploration in Narrative, ) Trier: Wissenschalicher Verlag Trier. . xvi+ pp. €.. ISBN ––––. ‘We are in the midst of a paradigm shi in writing and reading novels’, argues Anna Weigel-Heller (p. ). She is referring to digital textuality and what happens to literature when it interfaces with both digital technology and digital culture. Weigel-Heller completed her doctoral research in English and American literary studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen and the University of Helsinki in . She has published articles on intermedial and transmedial storytelling as well as on the emergence of new genres. In this new volume, Weigel-Heller explores how ‘the contemporary novel has responded to the overall media developments of the st century’ (p. ). She coins the label ‘fictions of the Internet’ to describe all the innovative twenty-first-century novels that deal with and make use of new media and the Internet through their content, form, materiality, technological support, or interactive features. Weigel-Heller includes seven case studies and broadly examines  contemporary literary works using a combination of text-centred, transgeneric, transmedial, and culture-oriented methods from literary, cultural, and media studies. She focuses on three main concepts and contributes specifically to the ongoing debates within ‘intermediality’, ‘transmedia storytelling’, and ‘genre/generic change’. Her work fills the gap in the area of intermedial and transmedial relations between twenty-firstcentury novels and new media, with the aim of systematizing the manifold new tendencies in contemporary writings. ‘More and more st-century writers are beginning to invoke new media in their literary texts and explore the limits of the novel as a medium’, says WeigelHeller (p. ). She provides evidence of how contemporary writers do not simply add intermedial references to their stories but instead ‘use media for a variety of storytelling purposes’, sometimes even revealing ‘the potential and limits of writing’ (Daniel Punday, Writing at the Limit: e Novel in the New Media Ecology (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, ), p. ; quoted in the current volume, p. ). She thus demonstrates the transformation of old literary genres and the creation of new genres owing to the influence of new media and technologies. Furthermore, she asserts that literary and media scholars must come to terms with these rapidly evolving literary innovations, which she categorizes by proposing new genres such MLR, .,   as ‘psychological Internet thriller’, ‘Facebook novel’, ‘Internet satire’, ‘multimedia novel’, and ‘Internet-enhanced mystery novel’ (p. ). She suggests that, over the coming years, the book market will continue to change in response to the Internet and new media; existing subgenres will be modified, new subgenres created, and ‘fictions of the Internet’ may even be recognized as a distinct genre itself. Indeed, the ongoing digitization of books and the use of transmedia storytelling force us to rethink existing literary theories, concepts, and methods. In recent decades, traditional narratology and interdisciplinary narrative research have expanded with the ongoing development of a host of new approaches, leading to an increasingly transgeneric, intermedial, and interdisciplinary narrative theory. ‘Fictions of the Internet’ is a valuable addition to this field and offers a new set of analytical tools for exploring narrative and storytelling, opening up new works, concepts, methods, and horizons for research. Most interestingly, Weigel-Heller discusses how narrative structure changes through the intimation of new media. However, the works that she reviews are interesting not only for the sake of their newness. On the contrary, there is much they can expose about what was previously regarded as normal, canonical, or valuable, in terms of both literature and literacy. is...

Assalamualaikum Beijing Repackaged: Habitus, Symbolic Power and Indonesian Cultural Production

This article explores the adaptation of Asma Nadia’s Assalamualaikum Beijing from novel to film to comic book as the reproduction of symbolic cultural goods. According to Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, people are conditioned to perform repetitive acts devoid of any preceeding consideration or deliberation, while symbolic power represents the tacit modes of social/cultural domination ingrained and preserved through everyday social practices. Taking a sociology of literature approach, this study discovers that the habitus of the Indonesian canon literary tradition has hindered contemporary literary works from achieving the same level of legitimacy through the boundary work performed by literary awards. Contemporary pop authors, who rarely win these awards, have set up a new standard through which they can gain influential status over the Indonesian field of cultural production through the repeated “repackaging” of their literary works. In addition, the study finds that Asma Nadia’s use of Beijing as the setting for her work is represents her desire to introduce the existence of Islam in China, while implicitly hinting at “a solution” to the problematic existence of Chinese Indonesians who can only be “fixed” through religious conversion.

Europe’s Compass: Flight Discourse and Mediterraneanism in Contemporary Novels

Mediterranneanism – as an “other heading” of Europe at its southernperipheries, including and fending off the other (according to TomislavZelic) – is a new topic in contemporary literary works on refugees. Thisessay draws some lines of research, focussing on the MediterraneanSea as a narrated passage between the continents, an area of a clashof cultures, a heterotopic space, and a political hotspot of flight tragediesin Bodo Kirchhoff’s “Novelle“ Widerfahrnis (2016) and MathiasÉnard’s novels “Erzähl ihnen von Schlachten, Königen und Elefanten”(2010/2013) and “Straße der Diebe” (2012/2013).

ПРОРОКИ В СВОЕМ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕ (ТЕМА ПОЭТА И ПОЭЗИИ В БАШКИРСКОМ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОМ РОМАНЕ)

The article analyses the Bashkir historical novel from the viewpoint of the representation of the theme of a poet and poetry. The originality of the study lies in the fact that the author’s attention is focused on contemporary literary works, which have not been previously studied. It is shown that poets have always played a key role in the spiritual and material life of the Bashkir people. The literary analysis is focused on such issues as the system of images, certain peculiarities of poetics, style originality. The author identifies specific national features of the novels, draws parallels with the Russian classical works.

Sposoby wzmocnienia aktu mowy dezaprobaty w języku polskim, rosyjskim i angielskim

The present paper is devoted to the phenomenon of disapproval as a speech act in contrastive Polish-Russian-English perspective. Special attention is paid to the utterances in which the speaker strengthens the speech act. The material for the analysis was excerpted from contemporary literary works in the three above mentioned languages.Choosing to express negative evaluation and lack of consent, the sender acts against the rules of politeness – he/she does not agree with the receiver and even prevents the interlocutor from action. In certain circumstances the speaker decides to strengthen the disapproval in order to achieve a stronger effect on the listener. Such utterances usually contain extra elements like emotional lexemes, proverbs or rhetoric questions.

Classical Reception Among the Women of the Eighteenth-Century Bluestocking Society

Eighteenth-century Britain saw a rich period of classical reception and allusions to antiquity in its literature, art, and politics. Among those who were influenced by the ancient Greek and Roman cultures were the members of the Bluestocking Society. Comprising mainly of authors, artists, and politicians of the elite class, it is its female members who have gained the most prominence in the subsequent study of the Society. While its most famous female members have been extensively studied through feminist, political, and literary lenses this work seeks to examine the classical influences upon the group. This paper will examine a mixture of contemporary literary works, paintings, engravings, and commissioned architecture, analyzing the classical allusions within these works and how these were used by the Bluestocking women to propagate their social standing. Additionally, the education of the Bluestocking women will be examined to see how certain women of the eighteenth-century made use of informal systems of learning to become as affluent in classical scholarship as their male counterparts. The Bluestocking women were able to use this informal education to become celebrated scholars. Major works analyzed within the paper include the personal letters of the leader of the Bluestockings Elizabeth Montagu, Sarah Fielding’s The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757), Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo (1778) by artist Richard Samuel, and representations of historian Catharine Macaulay as a Roman figure.

Maternal Mortality and Maternal Health Care in Nigeria: Implications for Socio-Economic Development.

BACKGROUND:Even though maternal mortality, which is a pregnancy-related death is preventable, it has continued to increase in many nations of the world, especially in the African countries of the sub-Saharan regions caused by factors which include a low level of socioeconomic development.AIM:This paper focuses on cogent issues affecting maternal mortality by unpacking its precipitating factors and examining the maternal health care system in Nigeria.METHODS:Contemporary works of literature were reviewed, and the functionalist perspective served as a theoretical guide to examine the interrelated functions of several sectors of the society to the outcome of maternal mortality.RESULTS:It was noted that apart from the medical related causes (direct and indirect) of maternal mortality, certain socio-cultural and socioeconomic factors influence the outcome of pregnancy. Also, a poor health care system, which is a consequent of weak social structure, is a contributing factor.CONCLUSION:As a result, maternal mortality has debilitating effects on the socioeconomic development of any nation. It is therefore pertinent for the government to improve maternal health and eradicate poverty to ensure sustainable development.

ОРНІТОЛОГІЧНА КОНЦЕПТОСФЕРА В ЕТНОГРАФІЇ ТА ЛІТЕРАТУРІ (на матеріалі праці І. Нечуя-Левицького "Світогляд українського народу" та поетичних творів Василя Голобородька)

The author of this article analyses the lyric poems by Vasyl Holoborod’ko published in 1999 and 2013 as the artistic principles to actualize the theoretical statements of Ivan Nechyi-Levyts’ky, displayed in the work The Worldview of Ukrainian People. The relevance of this article is conditioned by the need to thoroughly study the ethnographical treatises scrutinized to contemporary literary works, in order to widen the paradigm of novel literary analysis, particularly comparative. Therefore, the objectives of this article are to show the ways of the writers to reveal the interaction between man and nature, particularly using the animalistic (ornithological first of all) imagery. The base for this research is I. Nechui-Levyts’ky’s work The Worldview of Ukrainian People as well as lyrical cycles Ukrainian Birds in Ukrainian Landscape (excerpted from The Words in Needle-pointed Shirts, 1999) and White Indoor Plants (2013). The studies of Holoborod’ko’s verses with a bird for the standing-out image through the prism of ‘The Worlview…’ by Nechui-Levyts’ky showed the following. The interpretation of a folklore image is similar for both writers, and each of them would be free to choose the proper verbal form to embody it, should it be a scientific work or a rhymed narration. The different massifs of lexica (common words, terms, dialectal words, archaisms, onomatopoeias, neologisms) organically coexist in Holoborod’ko’s lyrics as the elements of a special artistic idiolect to create the unique ornithomorphic thesaurus (as T. Pastukh defined it) in every verse. What is the most important, this kind of lyrics is an evidence of re-creation of the unity between man and nature with a help of word, especially its internal form; I. Nechui-Levyts’ky tended to call it ‘pantheism.’ This fact opens the perspectives for further comparative studies of theoretical and artistic masterpieces within the framework of mutual complementation and enrichment of stylistic paradigms revealed in them.

Motocykl–widmo, czyli meandry współczesnej fantastyki (Oleg Diwow, Рыжий пес иж)

The present paper aims at analyzing one of the most recent Divov’s stories entitled Рыжий пес Иж (2016). The text is interesting both due to its literary genre hybridity (it embraces elements of a melodrama, a horror story, a detective story, urban fantasy and a fairy tale) and the topics it touches upon (especially animalistic issues). Divov deploys the well-known literary and cinematic motif of a soul penetrating an object and creates a story of motorcycle haunted by a dog’s soul. Due to its original solutions (inter alia referring to films) Divov’s story is an interesting work illustrating the permanent interrelations between literatures and movies as well as the author’s exploration within this scope. Moreover, the manner of creating the animal character and placing it within the structure allow for including Divov’s story into the group of contemporary literary works reflecting the proanimal trends in Russian culture.

El poder y la justicia en el Retablo de san Jorge del Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres

The aim of this work is to describe the representation of power and justice in the Altarpiece of St. George in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. For that purpose, firstly the altarpiece itself has been described by means of a unifying visual discourse to connect its different parts. Then, the representations of power — divine and human — and of justice — and also of injustice — have been classified according to the attributes represented and, especially, according to gestures. Finally, wherever possible, the visual discourse of the altarpiece has been contextualized using fragments of contemporary literary works which, without being direct sources, share the same imagery.