Nature Of Genre Research Articles

Allotropes and Speculative Obligation: SF in Southern Africa

ABSTRACT: This article focuses on speculative fiction written by authors from Southern Africa to examine the nature and effect of genre in fiction from a non-European context. In particular, I claim that Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana), and Nick Wood (Zambia) turn to alternate history to move beyond the stasis of a utopia/dystopia binary. Thus, by creating new settings for both social and intimate interactions within what I call allotropic temporality, a term developed in the article, these authors reestablish a temporal arc: futural possibilities that ensure aesthetic and ethical alternatives by offering nurturing kinship relations and flourishing communities.

The Interplay of Magic Realism and Historical Realism: Amitav Ghosh's Novels

This abstract delves into the captivating blend of magic realism and historical realism in the works of renowned Indian author Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh, celebrated for his historical and socio-political narratives, occasionally infuses elements of magic realism into his storytelling. Notable novels such as “The Shadow Lines,” “The Calcutta Chromosome,” and “Sea of Poppies” serve as examples where Ghosh adeptly blurs the boundaries between the magical and the real. This research paper emphasizes the diverse ways in which Ghosh explores the interplay between reality and fantasy, encouraging the readers to engage with his narratives on multiple levels and promoting discussions about the thin boundaries of literary genres. Magic realism, which is generally characterized by the inclusion of supernatural or magical elements within a realistic backdrop, challenges the distinction between the extraordinary and the ordinary. Though it is associated with Latin American literature, this genre has been embraced and adapted by writers from a variety of cultural backgrounds. However, the complexities of Ghosh’s narratives and the depth of his characterizations leave room for diverse interpretations, possibly aligning with the principles of magic realism. This paper aims to illuminate the dynamic relationship between representing facts and stimulating the imagination, it also highlights the multi-faceted nature of literary genres and the subjective lens through which readers perceive and interpret literary works.

On the dialogism of genre nature of the concept of “Selected passages from correspondence with friends”: notes on the margins of the book by Iu. V. Mann “In search of a living soul...”

The issue of the genre nature of “Selected passages from correspondence with friends” is one of the oldest, most significant and yet actual problems of studying Gogol’s latest book. The first readers and critics faced this problem in 1847. Since then, interest in the genre of the book has been followed by special attention to its creative history. At the same time, it is well known that the book was created during Gogol’s work on the second volume of “Dead Souls” and that Gogol involved a wide range of close and distant readers in this process. This was discussed by Yu.V. Mann in his book “In search of a living soul: ‘Dead Souls’. Writer – criticism – reader” (published in 1984), where the long-lasting writer-reader dialogue is presented with factual and documentary details. In this context, Yu.V. Mann made observations, that are important for understanding the genre origins of the concept of “Selected passages ...”. Over the 40 years since that, the scholarly stockpile of studying Gogol’s work has been significantly expanded, and now we can appreciate and develop the scholarly resource of Mann’s observations about the dialogical origins of its idea.

The synthetic nature of N. Lvov’s lyrical works in the focus of the “holiday” concept

This article examines the embodiment features of the dialogue of arts in N. Lvov’s creative heritage (1753-1803) based on the lyrical works of the writer intended for vocal performance (“Winter” (1796), “Duets. To the Music of Zhirdini Printed in London” (1791), “Words to the Finished Music of Seidelman. Duet” (1793), “A Song for Gypsy Dancing” (1789). The research uses the biographical, historical-functional and historical-typological methods. In the course of the study, we found that the synthesis of arts is a semantic and formative element. The writer managed to combine the literary code with the genome of a number of other, sometimes even antonymous, fields of art, which ultimately contributed to the creation of a unique work whose hallmark is eclecticism. Thus, through the active use of the musical art code in his work, N. Lvov managed not only to integrate two areas of art, but also to create a qualitatively new format of musical and literary art with powerful aesthetic potential. A clear example of this is his lyrical work with the concise title “Winter” (1796). In addition, as the analysis showed, the writer managed to organically introduce the festive concept of pagan extraction into the work, in many respects this is due to the genre nature of the text. Realizing the multiplicity of contact points between literature and painting, Lvov sought to develop various mechanisms of rapprochement. For example, he used the tools of fine art when creating the verbal fabric of a poetic text, thanks to which his poetic works acquired a special color and picturesqueness. We can observe this phenomenon in the “Duet. To the Music of Zhirdini Printed in London” (1791) and in “Words to the Finished Music of Seidelman” (1793). Being an innovator, N. Lvov made an attempt to combine various types of art – dynamic (literature) and spatial-temporal (choreography). An example of this kind of experiment is his “A Song for Gypsy Dancing” in whose genome the festive motif characteristic of N. Lvov’s work is traced again.

Linguistic Models of Mass Media Genres` Stylistic Diffusion in the Communicative Space of Ukraine and Bulgaria

Research attention is focused on fundamental changes in techniques and methods of informing , which activate the communicative capabilities of language and give rise to new genres, forms and formats of interpersonal communication in various spheres and discourses. It actualizes the research problem of the diffuse stylistic nature of mass media genres, argued by the processes of assimilation of public communication`s spheres. The author’s argumentation is based on the vectors of the dynamics of the literary language`s evolutionary potential, that is focused on the format and tasks of social communication. Predictably, the architectonic heterogeneity and polyfunctionality of the language of media texts explain the syncretic nature of the genres. And also the tendency to their constant modification and transformation regarding the structure, meanings and communicative valence of language units. The article interprets models of updating of the functional and stylistic paradigm of modern literary languages in their genre projection and perspective, which do not depend on the time and space of culture. To prove this thesis, the texts of the Ukrainian and Bulgarian media space in the genre of posts in social networks were chosen as the object of analysis. The main research aim is to determine the typicality / atypicality of stylistic diffusion in the genre paradigm of Ukrainian and Bulgarian media. The attention is paid to the bloggers and companies that are well- known in Ukraine and Bulgaria as influencers who make professional activities in the fields of health, beauty, sport, etc., and really model the current mass language consciousness. The research base is formed by texts that were published in the social networks Instagram, Facebook in 2023 – 2024. The functional and stylistic methodology of the mentioned material`s interpretation allows in a comparative discourse to prove the typicality of communicative processes that are resulted in the stylistic diffusion of modern mass media genres.

Джаз в советском кино. Опыт ретроспективного анализа

The article is devoted to representation of domestic jazz in the Soviet feature silent and sound cinema in the period from 1926 to 1990. The author notes that jazz was becoming part of the plot of documentaries and feature films since its emergence in the USSR, but the accents in its image changed, and the genre nature of the movies evolved. There was a traceable shift from musical comedy to satirical pamphlet, from lyrical comedy to melodrama. Based on several dozens of examples of films where jazz sounds, the article shows the relationship between the ideological course of the Soviet state, the perception of the jazz performance specifics at different historical milestones, and the nature of its reflection on the screen. Thus, in the 1930s, jazz was synonymous with popular music and had a clear shade of humour and entertainment; in the late 1940s, it symbolized the ideological opponents of the country; and after the Khrushchev Thaw, it was considered an art, a kind of intellectual activity. In addition to the periodization of jazz cinema, the article provides a typology of films about jazz. The author presents a classification based on a set of qualities, such as maximum or minimum correlation of the plot of the film with jazz, participation of jazz musicians in it, and presence of a jazz soundtrack.

Genre Features of G.D. Grebenshchikov Journalism (based on Minutes of Silence correspondence)

The article is devoted to the identification of genre-forming features of G.D. Grebenshchikov's journalistic creativity on the material of his work Minutes of Silence. The genre analysis of the text based on the description of its themes, composition and style allows one to assume that the genre nature of the writer’s journalistic work can be defined as multi-genre, with a clear inclination to the genres of fiction. Thus, the themes identified in the process of analysis (war, parting and loneliness) are relevant to the historical period of the creation of the work and, in general, to the journalism of the early twentieth century, but the theme of love (devotion, fidelity) as one of the key themes of Russian literature, is traditionally revealed through the genres of the story, novella, novel. In terms of composition, G.D. Grebenshchikov's text is closest to the genres of portrait sketch and reportage, but the author present in the text is interested not so much in the external background of the event, as in the dynamics of internal states and experience of the characters. In non-fiction works of the writer there is a peculiar author's style, which allows one to actualize the author's understanding of the observed event through a variety of stylistic means.

The genre of the holiday story in the literature of the XXI century for children and teenagers

The article explores the genre features of a vacation literature about a children's health camp of the late XX – early XXI centuries. Both the traditions of the story about the pioneer camp of the twentieth century and the original features of modern literature for children and adolescents are revealed. The article actualizes the topics of the relationship between adolescents and children in a new team, the problems of growing up and socialization. A fairly extensive typology of child and adolescent characters relevant to modern reality is presented. The significance and importance of this article is due to the importance of the problems posed, as well as modern and practically unexplored research material, which are the works of V. Krapivin, T. Kryukova, M. Panteleeva, T. Mikheeva, etc., which are only included in scientific circulation. To understand these aspects, the following research methods are used in the article: comparative, hermeneutical and comparative typological methods. With the help of a systematic approach, an analytical study of the ways of communication between children and adolescents, their socialization and self-realization in a vacation story is provided. The main result of this work is the study of different types of characters of children and adults, ways of their interaction and ways of self-realization. The study of practically new and little-studied artistic material that arouses genuine interest among teenagers themselves becomes relevant in this article. At the same time, the following tasks were solved: identifying key aspects of growing up and socialization of a child / teenager; analyzing the relationships of children in the novels of V. Krapivin, T. Kryukova, M. Panteleeva, T. Mikheeva and other writers; determining the features of the development of the main storylines and the imaginative system of the analyzed stories, as well as the genre originality of the works under study. The key aspects of the article were questions about the genre nature of the stories, the typology of child and adolescent characters, and the moral aspects of growing up a child.

Жанрологія в національному мовознавстві: наукова школа Флорія Бацевича

The article summarizes the ideas of linguistic genreology in the context of the philological interpretation of the genre's nature. It is determined that the linguistic objectivity of its analysis is based on the ideas of communicative studies. In Ukrainian linguistics, they are systematically represented in the researches of the scientific school of F. Batsevych. The thesis is argued that his ideas that are related to the linguistic interpretation of the genre, its characteristics and communicative dominants, take into account, first of all, different forms and formats of intentions. The author's comment is given on their verbalization in dynamically changing variants as peculiar patterns of communicative situations, typed structure fixed by cultural tradition, as well as the fact that they acquire individual characteristics in the process of communication. It also defined that F. Batsevych emphasizes on the tactics of implementing of communicative strategies, which are interpreted as separate genres in micro-contexts. It is summarized that the research ideas of F. Batsevych in Ukrainian linguistics have developed into a consistent tradition, realized in the works of his colleagues. It allows us to talk about the formation and active functioning of an authoritative scientific school of linguistic genreology. It was determined that the concept of linguistic genreology, formed and systematically implemented by F. Batsevych in the author's texts and researches of his followers, generalizes the communicative dominants of the genre, which are based on extralinguistic parameters: social conditioning, typicality of the communicative situation, formal features, functionality, stability and variability. It is argued that F. Batsevych's linguistic ideas of genre analysis are meaningfully correlated with the objectivity of media genreology (in the context of functional parallelism with linguistic genreology). It was determined that its prospects lie in the implementation of methodological syncretism of the analysis of language in the dynamics of social communication and its functions in the media, in the emergence of invariant forms and methods of verbal mass interaction, in the motivated renewal of its stylistics and genre system. And this, in turn, determines the vectors that leadto the perspective of the ideas of neolinguistic research.

ІСТОРИКО-ЛІТЕРАТУРНІ ПРАЦІ ЛЕОНІДА БІЛЕЦЬКОГО: РІЗНОВЕКТОРНІСТЬ НАУКОВИХ ЗАЦІКАВЛЕНЬ УЧЕНОГО

The article analyses the historical and literary works of the famous Ukrainian liter-ary critic Leonid Biletskyi (1882-1955), written by him in the diaspora. They are both of various genres (textbook, literary portrait of a writer or scientist, preface), and colourful thematically: Ukrainian folk art, individual writers or characteristics of the achieve-ments of Ukrainian scientists. This work is addressed to diff erent audiences – school, academic, and the general public with the aim of popularizing Ukrainian literature and its best assets. L. Biletsky constantly emphasizes the idea of the inclusion of native writing in the world context, uses a set of methodologies that complement each other – biographical, cultural-historical, comparative. However, the philological one is funda-mental for him, which allows to characterize literary phenomena as self-suffi cient aes-thetic phenomena. Also, the scientist successfully combines historical and literary mate-rial with theoretical, considering the genre nature of the work, the specifi cs of literary trends, in particular, modernism. He, like his predecessors, begins the author’s course of the history of Ukrainian literature with folk poetry, involving a large mass of informa-tion about the anthropological, ethnographic, and national features of Ukrainians. In various genre texts about Ukrainian writers, L. Biletskyi explores the origins of their talent, place and role in the history of Ukrainian literature, peculiarities of style, genre system. In the portraits of famous Ukrainian fi gures, he emphasises their service to the Ukrainian idea, the originality of their contribution to science.

On the issue of defining the concepts of image and PR texts in the modern media space

The subject of this article is the image and business reputation, which are largely determined by a huge corpus of various image and PR texts created daily within the framework of numerous mass media. The purpose of the work is to give definitions of the concepts of image and PR texts in the modern media space, to determine their similarities and differences through content and discourse analysis of materials of scientific periodicals. Socio-political, social and economic media texts in the Russian media space have many distinctive linguistic and non-linguistic features due to the national specifics and social development of our country. Reputation is often formed not only by image media texts, but also by a number of other types of texts represented in mass media with image potential. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that with the existing problem of typologization of media texts, the hypothesis is introduced that PR texts in their broad sense are nothing more than a subgroup of image media texts present in the media field of the main spheres – journalism, advertising and PR activities. The author comes to the conclusion that the instability and dynamism of the terminological apparatus gives a certain "freedom" of action when selecting research material. The ways in which image specialists work and the genre nature of image media texts themselves have become much more complicated. Image media texts can be considered as journalistic text, advertising text, PR text.

INVARIANT LINGUOSTYLISTICS OF THE MEDIA REVIEW GENRE

The article touches upon the problem of stylistic status of the review. Its invariant in the media in modern forms optimizes the effective model of analytics in public communication. The author’s thesis is based on the argumentation of the contrasting nature of the modern media review (as an object of analysis) in relation to its traditional varieties – scientific and literary-critical. It is explained by the dynamic functional resource of new media represented in the Internet, social networks, etc. The openness of their communicative boundaries expands the category of authorship, when a potential reviewer is not necessarily a specialist (which is typical for scientific review), but a real recipient of information. Such extralinguistic dominants of the media review are qualified as one of the genre-creating factors resulting in the systematic selection of relevant constructions. In accordance with the research tasks, a thesis is formulated regarding the change of the professional context of the review in the media, which is supplemented by the means of individual emotional and expressive evaluation, verbalized by units of different language levels. It is determined that the genre nature of the media review relies on the analytical resource of verbalizing the author’s – not professional – opinion regarding the object of review. Appropriate reflection, taking into account the mass media context of its functioning and the extralinguistic factor of the audience, involves the use of commonly used vocabulary, phraseology, paraphrases, epithets, optimal, special syntactic models, etc. – as communicative markers of assessment. The investigation of linguostylistics of the media review results in its identification as a meta-genre, which, assuming the analytical principle of informing, is based on a certain recommended evaluation of a message, book, film, concert, event, etc., and can be designed in accordance with the communicative dominant of genres, actual for different media segments –review, post in social networks, extended comment, rticle, etc. The formulated and commented ambiguity and debatability of the genre-stylistic status of the media review determines the actual and perspective problems of further professional studies in the field of media genreology.

Defining the genre specific nature of the literary tale: tales as a memeplex in the works of J. Zipes and Bakhtin’s conception of ‘memory of the genre’ in the works of M. Lipovetsky

This article reviews theoretical conceptions concerning the genre specificity of the literary fairy tale. We refer to two key theories in the field of the genre - the works of M. Lipovetsky, based on M. Bakhtin’s conception of “genre memory”, and J. Zipes theory of the fairy tale genre as a memeplex. Despite the fact that these conceptions are not traditionally considered in the scientific paradigm as complementary, we attempt to bring them into a single logic. The article identifies the connection between the studies of M. Lipovetsky, J. Zipes and the conception of “metafictionality”, or “self-reflexivity” of the literary fairy tale genre. We argue that metafiction is a key parameter of the genre being in direct connection with the category of intertextuality. Metafictionalism underlies the genre nature of the literary fairy tale; in addition, it can be expressed through particular techniques, including the “the method of breaking the fourth wall” technique, the “mis en abame” technique, the change of focalization, etc. The article concludes that the “metafiction” of the text, manifested in the literary fairy tale at all textual levels, can be a tool of genre differentiation.

КЫРГЫЗ АДАБИЯТЫНЫН ПРОЗА ЖАНРЫНДАГЫ ЭПИСТОЛЯРДЫК ФОРМА

This article analyzes the features of the use of the epistolary form in the prose genre of Kyrgyz literature. The reason is that the epistolary form, which has been widely studied in the framework of world and Russian literature, has not yet received its development, the genre nature of which has been clarified and has embarked on the path of comprehensive development. In fact, the epistolary form performs a number of tasks of the prose direction of literary creativity, develops the plot of a work of art, reveals the images of characters, and performs specific tasks in regulating compositional construction. On the other hand, the epistolary form used in the work is closely related to its ideological and thematic core. Thirdly, the letters used in the work give the impression of the era being described, and with the help of the letter the author can solve many important problems. In terms of genre, the epistolary form in Kyrgyz literature is widely used in stories, novels, novels, in the fantasy genre and in parables.

Characteristics and Signs of Féerie (Based on Examples of Literary Works of the Early XX century)

“Féerie” is a term often associated with magic that is found in various forms of artistic expression, including literature, theater and visual arts. The relevance of the article is characterized by the analysis of the “féerie” in the genre and structural aspect in the context of structure and composition in general fiction and on the examples of the works of A. Green “Scarlet Sails”, M. Maeterlinck “Blue Bird, Lesya Ukrainka “Forest Song”. On the basis of examples of works of art taken for analysis, a comprehensive presentation of the nature of the “féerie” in a literary context is carried out. The purpose of this article is to reveal the originality of the “féerie” and its manifestations in the work. Comparative and generalizing methods were used in the analysis of the “feerie” based on the texts of works of art. Special attention was paid to the consideration of characters, situations, quarrels, images that are considered separate components of the “féerie”. The works also reflect the interaction of “féerie” with other genre types (fairy tale, mythology, fantasy) and the integration of their personal qualities. Thus, a comparative analysis of the features of “féerie” in various works allowed us to identify the most important criteria for determining the genre of “feerie”. It was possible to show the genre nature of literary “féeries” written at the beginning of the XX century, to identify their common features and features through textual comparison. As a result of the research, it is concluded that the “féerie” in artistic works partially retains its properties inherent in the theatrical sphere.

THE PROSE OF IHOR KOSTETSKYI

The paper examines the literary technique of Ihor Kostetskyi and the innovative forms and content of his prose from the late 1940s. It focuses on the author’s attempts to update the genre nature of a short story. The analysis covers the principles of creating a figurative system, the structure of a prose narrative, the use of cinematic constructions, the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique, the situation of a lacuna, ‘text within a text’, etc.
 The research involved the works included in the collection “Stories about the Winners”, as well as the short stories “You Own the Whole World”, “Before the Upcoming Day”, “Divine Lies”, and samples of their critical reception (in particular, the studies by Victor Petrov, Volodymyr Derzhavyn, Yurii Sherekh, and others).
 Kostetskyi’s collection of short prose “The Story of the Winners” is regarded as a kind of laboratory in which the writer explored the possibilities of language and literary techniques, experimenting with the concepts of genre and image. It is argued that the writer sought to create a technical picture of the world that has nothing to do with the physical world, and the images he created are signs and symbols that need to be deciphered. In the short story “You Own the Whole World”, which is perceived as a “telegraphic mini-version of a psychological novel” or a “mini-novel with a mini-prologue”, one can find the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique and the situation of a gap, that is, a gap between the story of traumatic event and reality when the reader does not receive an unambiguous answer to the question of where the event occurs and whether it occurs at all. The compositional technique of ‘text within a text’, tested by Kostetskyi in the short story “Before the Upcoming Day”, performs the function of a hidden ‘message’ and allows inserting ‘internal’ actions and dialogues into ‘external’ ones.
 In general, Kostetskyi’s works appeal to the subconscious, enhanced associativity and imagination, and the play factor is important in them as one of the elements of the author’s poetics.

Жанровая природа мастер-класса

The research aims to describe the model of the master class as a core genre of engineering and didactic discourse for children and adolescents. Texts in the professional field of engineering didactics rarely come into focus for researchers due to the closed systems in which they exist. This presents a challenge for studying their genre specificity and discursive features. The scientific novelty lies in introducing into scientific use new textual material, i.e. the master class notes of the International Children’s School of Engineering Robotics, considering the genre nature of the master class from the linguistic and discursive perspective. As a result of the analysis, we were able to describe the genre of master class in engineering didactic discourse based on T. V. Shmеleva’s proposed model. We identified the discursive conditioning of the genre-forming elements of the master class, such as communicative goal, author and addressee image, factor of the past and future communicative image, key and peripheral events of dictum, compositional structure, linguistic embodiment of the genre. The double communicative goal, the poly-addressing of the genre and the unstable compositional structure were identified as the specific features of the hybrid genre and discourse.

COVID-19-дискурс как особый вид дискурса в структуре университетского интернет-портала (на материале русского и немецкого языков)

The article presents the analysis of linguistic and cultural features of COVID-19 discourse. The current research is an attempt to identify the discourse-forming features of the given discourse as well as to analyze the empirical material focusing on its genre and language features. The analysis is based upon general scientific methods, with the use of interpretive methodology and contextual analysis. The author analyzes methods of construction and navigation of COVID-19 Internet pages integrated into the university Internet portal providing the justification of its hypertext characteristics and describing the thematic features of the headings. The article describes constructive features of the COVID-19 discourse including its participants, chronotope, goals, strategies and values. The author considers COVID-19 discourse an institutional hybrid interdiscursive phenomenon which forms a thematically limited communicative space in the structure of the university Internet portal during the coronavirus pandemic. The article contains the analysis of the genre aspects of the given discourse based on two non-similar languages (Russian, German) focusing on their discourse-conditioned lexical, syntactic peculiarities. The research revealed the specific genre nature of the COVID-19 university discourse which is determined by the formation and existence of the COVID-19 discourse in different linguocultures. The author shows the interdependence of genre structure and intra-genre linguistic means focusing on the similarities and differences in syntactic and lexical markers of discourse. All this allows to suggest the presence of linguocultural determination of COVID-19 discourse in the structure of the university Internet portal of two non-similar languages. The study opens up the prospects for further focus on the linguocultural determination of COVID-19-discourse and a detailed analysis of its linguistic and translatological features.

Functional Analysis of Linking Adverbials in Chemistry and English Language Teaching

Linking adverbials are important linguistic features that signal a cohesive link between parts of the discourse. This study intends to explore the frequencies and discourse functions of linking adverbials in research articles across two disciplines: English Language Teaching and Chemistry. To this end, a corpus of 40 research articles from each discipline were selected from high-prestige journals recommended by successful researchers in the respective fields. The selected research articles were taken from the 2018-2019 issues of the journals. Liu's (2008) updated and widely recognized classification of linking adverbials was employed to identify linking adverbials. Findings revealed the disciplinary differences concerning frequencies and functions of linking adverbials and categories and subcategories of linking adverbials. By comparing the results of this study with previous literature, it could be concluded that frequencies and functions of linking adverbials are imposed by the nature of discipline and genre.

Beyond Discrete Genres: Mapping News Items onto a Multidimensional Framework of Genre Cues

In the contemporary media landscape, with the vast and diverse supply of news, it is increasingly challenging to study such an enormous amount of items without a standardized framework. Although attempts have been made to organize and compare news items on the basis of news values, news genres receive little attention, especially the genres in a news consumer’s perception. Yet, perceived news genres serve as an essential component in exploring how news has developed, as well as a precondition for understanding media effects. We approach this concept by conceptualizing and operationalizing a non-discrete framework for mapping news items in terms of genre cues. As a starting point, we propose a preliminary set of dimensions consisting of “factuality” and “formality”. To automatically analyze a large amount of news items, we deliver two computational models for predicting news sentences in terms of the said two dimensions. Such predictions could then be used for locating news items within our framework. This proposed approach that positions news items upon a multidimensional grid helps deepening our insight into the evolving nature of news genres.