Artistic Text Research Articles

Стилеобразующая функция фразеологизмов в повести Г. И. Климовской «Онка»

The aim of the research is to identify the unique features of the style of an artistic text based on the analysis of phraseological units (PUs). The work is conducted in the context of the theory of regulativity developed within the communicative stylistics of a text, using the material of the novel “Onka” by G. I. Klimovskaya. The article focuses on the analysis and systematization of both common and occasional PUs, which play a role as regulatory means in the interpretive activities of the reader. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the first-time description and systematization of all PUs in the text of the novel “Onka” as regulatory means, the selection of which reflects the author’s individuality. This work serves as a stage in the research of the writer’s individual style. No previous studies have been conducted on analyzing the texts of this author in such a context. The analysis of the text resulted in the identification of two groups of PUs: common and individually-authored. It was established that at the pragmatic level of the text, conversational PUs (pragmemes) containing an expressive component most often dominate in terms of regulativity. Individually-authored PUs combine the functions of pragmemes and informemes, as they express emotion and contain cognitive information. At the informative-meaningful level of the text, the dominance of regulativity lies with complex-component phraseological units with significant meaning transformation, as well as phraseological units where lexical replacement leads to complete meaning transformation.

THE CONCEPTUALITY OF THE TEXT AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE ETHNO-CULTURAL CODE OF THE NATIONAL-AUTHOR PICTURE OF THE WORLD

The purpose of the article is to describe conceptuality as a subcategory of the textual category of informativeness, to focus on the linguistic means of expressing this typological feature of the verbal whole. The outlined goal involves the following tasks: to substantiate the existence of conceptuality as a subcategory of informativeness in the categorical hierarchy of the text; to focus attention on conceptuality in the aspect of revealing ethnocultural codes of national and individual author’s pictures of the world; describe key words, lexical repetitions, author’s aphorisms, as well as dedications, epigraphs, titles as linguistic means of realizing conceptuality. The source base of the research is Ukrainian-language artistic verbal objects, from which the selection of units (metaphors, epithets, periphrasis, oxymorons, etc.) was carried out, which reveal conceptuality as a textual subcategory of informativeness. The focus is on literary texts of both classical Ukrainian literature and modern ones — by Ihor-Bohdan Antonych, Ivan Bagryany, Oksana Zabuzhko, Maria Matios, Natalia Nazar, Roman Skiba, Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Vasyl Stus, Lesya Ukrainka, Hnat Khotkevich, Taras Shevchenko. The object of study is Ukrainian poetic discourse and its components (concepts), and the subject is artistic images of Ukrainian poetry and prose as expressions of conceptuality as a type of textual category of informativeness. The result of the scientific search was the deepening of the idea of hierarchical ordering of text categories and subcategories and the definition of conceptuality as an invariant characteristic of the verbal whole, which reflects a separate aspect of the typological feature of the verbal whole. We study artistic and poetic communication in the aspect of a discursive approach as a process in which the result of verbal interaction between its participants is a manifestation of the specificity of the linguistic and national picture of the world of Ukrainians. The conclusion is that the informativeness category represents the text as a communicative unit. The phenomenon of informativeness is caused by the presence of conceptual information in the artistic text, which is projected into the plane of the author — with the idea of the work, into the plane of the reader — with the process of perceiving the text as assimilation of new information and approaching the author’s idea. Ukrainian-language artistic texts are components of the world picture of the ethnos, they contain collective experience, the genetic and evolutionary basis of which is expressed by the textual subcategory of conceptuality. Conceptuality implements the aesthetic idea of the work, harmonizes the theme and plot, determines the selection of language means, etc. The concept is an axiological prism of worldview. Artistic communication is able to reveal the unique culture of the nation, its traditions, customs, mentality, reproduce people’s lives in national-historical originality, and also represent the worldview of the unique personality of the author-addressee. Linguistic means of implementing conceptuality as a subcategory of the text category of informativeness are keywords, lexical repetitions, author’s aphorisms, as well as dedications, epigraphs, titles.

Lotman’s semiotics of culture in the age of AI: analyzing the cultural dynamics of AI-generated video art in the semiosphere

Abstract The use of AI-generated videos centered on the face raises various concerns among professionals and audiences due to the difficulty of providing coherent descriptive tools of their cultural significance. At the same time, the focus of artists and their audiences shifts from the art as a text to the collaboration process between artificial intelligence (AI) and the involved social actors. This raises significant concerns between policymakers and other social actors looking for guidelines for the appropriate use of AI as a tool, collaborator or substitute for creative workers, which can have immediate and long-term impacts on society and culture. Semiotics of culture provides descriptive tools for understanding and evaluating artistic texts and their role in semiotic space, the semiosphere. This article addresses how Lotman’s theory can contribute to the methodology for analyzing AI-generated texts as dynamic models. The theoretical framework developed by Lotman in his research on artistic text, dynamic systems and culture can be applied to the studies of current shifts related to AI-generated arts. This paper looks at the reception of AI-generated videos focused on face representations. In doing so, it analyses the dynamic processes in the creation process of AI-generated videos through their reception in related texts. The findings of this article highlight how Lotman’s theoretical framework can contribute to the methodology to analyze the cultural dynamics evoked by AI-generated artistic texts.

Urban phenomena as "sites of memory" in "Open City" by Teju Cole

The purpose of the work is to analyze the autofictional novel by the modern American writer Teju Cole "Open City" using memory studies' optics. Relevance is ensured by an appeal to one of the most important genres of modern literature, autofiction, which combines and fundamentally non-distinguishes documentary and fictional discourses, and the use of the methodological apparatus of the cross-disciplinary sphere of memory studies. The subject of the study is the urban chronotope of New York after the 9/11 terrorist attack and its specific memorial loci. The artistic text in this case acts as a medial representation of reality, and the urban space in it is perceived and can be analyzed as a text. One of the founders of memory studies is French scientist Pierre Nora, whose term "sites of memory" becomes the basis in this work. The narrator of the novel "Open City," Julius, in the process of flaring through New York, perceives the city as a semiotic space, reading the markers of the urban chronotope as memorable and/or historical signs. "Sites of memory," located at the junction of living memory and frozen history, become the most important loci that fix the individual and collective commentary of social history, while being pushed out of the sphere of relevance into the sphere of the forgotten, whilst the narrator of the novel occupies an intermediate position due to the ability to reactualize historical events and memorial narratives, albeit only at the personal level. Such a comparison of "I" and "others" allows to address the issue of national identity and reveal the specifics of the American nation as focused on the future, and not on the past, and erasing the "Sites of memory" from contemporaneity.

Changing the contents of artistic works as a result of the substitution and blinding of the original meaning of precedent phenomena

The article deal with the problems of perceiving and understanding the contents of artistic works and the reasons for their change. The rea­sons for the transformations of the original values, the influence of such transformations on changing the contents are clarified. The influ­ence of the considerable complexity of language and expressive means used by modern composers on the formation of contents is traced. The influence of the listener's insufficient cultural competence on the perception of complex-language works and changing their con­tents was revealed. For the first time, the role of precedent phenomena in the process of reading and forming the content of works in the pro­cess of their actualization has been consistently investigated. A very important factor in the adequate formation of contents is, in particular, taking into account the values provided by the analysis and under­standing of the precedent situation. This factor, which usually has a socio-cultural nature and is closely tied to specific historical realities, is usually "taken out of parentheses" in the process of perception, which, in our opinion, leads to a significant change in the contents of the perceived object. Erasing the original meanings of precedent names also clearly leads to changes and blurring of the formed con­tents, causing their «modernization». Even more mobile is the result of reading the values of precedent names, which are always closely re­lated to precedent situations. The importance of intertextual and intermedial strategies for changing the contents of read texts is indicated. The importance of the involve­ment of paramusical and cross-cultural factors for the final establish­ment of the configuration of updated contents in the process of per­ception is emphasized. All proposed theoretical formulations presented in the article are based on the results of detailed art and cultural analysis. The descrip­tion and results of one of these basic analyzes are given in the text of the article. This is an examination of the history of the formation of the modern text and the modern content of the well-known folk song of literary origin «How to sit, brothers, near the cup» based on a poem by Osyp Yurii Fedkovych. Peculiarities of reading this artistic text, deter­mined by discursive features and socio-cultural conditions of perfor­mance, are also analyzed.

Dilbilimsel Temelli Metin Çözümleme Etkinliklerinin Orta Okul Öğrencilerinin Türkçe Dersine Yönelik Tutumlarına Etkisi

The aim of this research is to reveal the effect of linguistics-based text analysis activities on the attitudes of secondary school 7th grade students towards Turkish course. The study was carried out as an action research based on identifying and solving the problem in any part of the teaching processes with micro groups. The study group of the research consists of 17 7th grade students studying in Gümüşhane province, which was determined through critical situation sampling, one of the purposive sampling methods. Attitude scale towards Turkish lesson was used as a data collection tool in the research. Data were collected before and after the implementation of linguistics-based activities prepared for narrative and artistic texts. The analysis of the data was analyzed with the dependent sample t test and Wilcoxon signed ranks test used in the analysis of replicate measurements for the same groups. The results obtained are that linguistics-based text analysis activities have positively changed the attitudes of the students towards the Turkish course.

ABODE OF «KHTISSHVILI»' (ACCORDING TO THE STORY «KHTISSHVILI» BY GODERDZI CHOKHELI)

Goderdzi Chokheli is an outstanding writer of the 20th century, whose works deeply and interestingly reflected the customs characteristic of the life of his native area - Gudamakri. He was a writer, poet, director, and playwright. Goderdzi Chokheli's creative heritage is diverse, as a writer he is distinguished by his writing manner and subject matter, his works are nourished by folk motifs, and he brings heroes from myths and legends, which establishes an original style of writing in Georgian writing of the postmodern era. Goderdzi Chokheli's works widely reflected pagan and Christian beliefs and ideas, the works are imbued with the spirit and aspirations that nourish the author's native corner - Gudamakari.The short story «Khtisshvili», which we are dealing with, contains a mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs and ideas, observation revealed that the author reconciles the two beliefs, ideas, and narrative. The characters created by the writer are often mythological heroes, as well as in the story «Khtisshvili», whose hero is little Zosime. He will live in heaven at the end of the story, like the mythological gods. The corner of lighted candles is a paradigm of the Lord, by the power of whose light Zosimus, clothed in unearthly light, joined the company of heavenly apostles. According to the worldview of Goderdzi Chokheli, the place of the chosen ones is only in heaven. This is how the author portrayed the face of «Khtisshvili» in the story. The mythical perspective, the confusion of the real and the unreal once again presents Goderdzi Chokheli as an outstanding writer and thinker of the twentieth century. A kind of anachronism, the transfer of the past into reality, which is the way of life of the Gudamakrs, skillfully turns into the legacy of the artistic text, thus immortalizing this event.

NOMINATION TRENDS OF WORKS OF UKRAINIAN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Literature for children and youth is a special type of literature. Her literaly and language organization is focused on the child reader, his needs and peculiarities perception of information. From works of art, the child learns about the world around him, gets to know the people’s culture, history and traditions, and this helps in the formation of the worldview and value systems. The title serves a kind of signal that prompts the reader to turn to the text or discard it. The relevance of the research is importance of studying the main trends in the nomination of Ukrainian works for children and youth.
 The article found out that the titles of modern artistic texts for children and youth generally correspond to the rules for creating of the title, but they also have certain ones features that distinguish them from others and give grounds to outline the general and partial tendencies of nomination of works. General trends characterize the works for children and youth in the context of the general literary process and demonstrate the author’s desire to find the original form and veil the content. It is possible thanks to the use of means of the puns which provide an aesthetic effect through the conscious violation of language norms and content elements. The specificity of the representation is analysed elements of the language game at different levels of the language system, in particular: the use of the Latin alphabet (graphical level), use of non-literal signs (graphical and orthographical level), use of assonance and alliteration, rhyming (phonetic level), involvement of antonyms, homophones, homographs, etc. (lexical level), use of occasionalisms, diminutives forms (at the level of vocabulary and word formation), manifestations of intertextuality and attraction to dialogicity (textual level). The specifics of implementing intertextuality are described through allusions to folklore, Ukrainian myths and legends, other literary works, films, works of art, famous personalities, etc. Dialogicity is traced in the titles, which are interrogative, exclamatory sentences or contain appeals, aposiopesis.
 The partial trends in the naming of works have been singled out and summarized, which is clear represented in the literary works of individual modern writers. This, in particular, repetition of a fragment of the title of the work, since the new work is a continuation of the previous one (works by V. Rutkivskyi, S. Dermanskyi, L. Nitsoi, L. Voronina, O. Gavrosh, S. Hridin, G. and T. Mykytchakiv, M. Pavlenko), repetition of a fragment of the title of different works from one cycle (works by O. Esaulov from the series "Children’s Detective"), an indication of the genre of the work (works by N. Devyatko, H. Maniv, N. Voskresenska, O. Kryzhanivska), rhyming (works by O. Mamchich), means of phonostylistics – assonance, alliteration (works by H. Falkovich), of the same type structural models of headings, such as: one-word names (works by O. Krotiuk), negative word forms (works by S. Hrydin), adjective-noun phrases (works by V. Petruk), syntactic constructions that represent a subjunctive part of a complex sentences (works by H. Malyk).
 It is concluded that in order to understand the information contained in the title, it is necessary to take into account a global context that enables the associative relationships of the title to be defined in cultural space. Partial trends in the nomination of works of art provide recognizability of the writer, strengthen the originality and expressiveness of his creative work completion.

IDBNet: Improved differentiable binarisation network for natural scene text detection

AbstractThe text in the natural scene can express rich semantic information, which helps people understand and analyse daily things. This paper focuses on the problems of discrete text spatial distribution and variable text geometric size in natural scenes with complex backgrounds and proposes an end‐to‐end natural scene text detection method based on DBNet. The authors first use IResNet as the backbone network, which does not increase network parameters while retaining more text features. Furthermore, a module with Transformer is introduced in the feature extraction stage to strengthen the correlation between high‐level feature pixels. Then, the authors add a spatial pyramid pooling structure in the end of feature extraction, which realises the combination of local and global features, enriches the expressive ability of feature maps, and alleviates the detection limitations caused by the geometric size of features. Finally, to better integrate the features of each level, a dual attention module is embedded after multi‐scale feature fusion. Extensive experiments on the MSRA‐TD500, CTW1500, ICDAR2015, and MLT2017 data set are conducted. The results showed that IDBNet can improve the average precision, recall, and F‐measure of a text compared with the state of art text detection methods and has higher predictive ability and practicability.

ДИЗАЙН ТЕКСТА В УЛИЧНОМ ИСКУССТВЕ: КОММУНИКАТИВНЫЕ СТРАТЕГИИ ГОРОДА

Street art in Russia is an actual form of contemporary art that is a response to a number of social, political, and cultural changes. However, the role and use of text in Russian street art remain insufficiently researched. The object of the study is a text in street art used by street artists in urban spaces, not only for the purpose of visual transformation but also to endow it with meanings. The methodological basis of this research is the analysis of scientific articles, books, and studies on street art, as well as interviews with artists. Comparative method, historical, and cultural analysis: the paper compares Soviet and modern textual street art objects based on the analysis of archival photographs and information from the websites of Yekaterinburg street art artists. As a result of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the text in street art performs not only the function of visualizing ideas but also is a means of interaction and communication with society. It contributes to the formation of the way of thinking and philosophy of the whole people. Text compositions, creating a unique design code, can become the visual center of the city, its distinctive feature, and attract tourists. They create the possibility of a polymodal conversation in the urban space: between residents, active urban environment converters, and the authorities. According to the author, modern cities need to be filled with semantic texts to create spaces for an open-wall conversation

Performance Functions of the Flashback Category in Artistic Text

In the article, on a scientific and theoretical basis, the performing functions of the category of retrospection in a literary text are revealed. In order to comprehensively study the category of retrospection, it is not enough to analyze only its structural (formal) aspect, it should be considered in an in-depth study, as part of a holistic text, in its dynamic aspect. The retrospective category is a functional-stylistic category; in its analysis, the main goal is to consider its linguistic means, spatial structure, and functional aspect. The originality of the functions of the category of retrospection lies in the issue of a communicative-cognitive plan (to achieve an adequate understanding of the text) and the law of logical (artistic) thinking, i.e. the presence of an “old” concept, which is generalized and emphasized in the course of a logical discussion in the dynamics of the verbal-thinking process.

Differences in Expressions of Retrospective and Prospective Categories (In the Aspect of Artistic Text)

Retrospection is considered as a grammatical category of the text that organizes the reader’s understanding of the content-factual information presented in front, which is a kind of linguistic expression. A prospectus is a speech element that provides meaningful and factual information that has the ability to recreate and plan it. This is a constructive method that informs the reader (listener) about what information will be in advance in the process of discussing the subject of speech. The categories of retrospection and prospection interpret the main idea of the author in a literary text in close connection with the compositional structure of the work and its reception by the individual reader.

Graphic and visual means of creating an individual author's style (based on the texts of Umberto Eco)

In this article, the author considers such means of creating an individual author's style as graphons and phonetic-graphic means. The subject of the study is both deviations from the norm, graphically designed, and purely graphic techniques subordinated to the idea of creating a language game. Among the phenomena considered by the author are italics, typeface variation, author's punctuation, capitalization, strikethrough, underlining, bold, solid writing, as well as special lettering of some characters. The research is based on the material of Umberto Eco's novel "Baudolino" and "Diario minimo". As the analysis has shown, Eco resorts to special character designs to create irony, as well as to enhance the expressiveness of the artistic text. The novelty of this study lies, first of all, in the choice of material that had previously remained outside the limits of linguistic research, as well as beyond the attention of domestic linguists. The novel "Baudolino" has hitherto been the subject of research exclusively among literary critics, semiotics and medievalists, but has not been considered from a linguistic point of view. The same can be said about humorous experiments of Umberto Eco. The theoretical significance of the research lies in attracting the attention of researchers to such means of creating an individual author's style as graphic and visual, based on the material of Umberto Eco's creative heritage.

Structural organization and features of the use of multi-component complex sentences in the novel «On the humble field» by Valerii Shevchuk

The article is devoted to the analysis of the structure and functioning of multi-component compound sentences in Valerii Shevchuk's speech. The novel "On the Humble Field" will serve as the research material. Since in modern linguistics there are still no scientific investigations, the subject of which was the analysis of multi-component complex sentences in Valerii Shevchuk's artistic texts, our research is relevant. The goal of the article is to characterize the structural organization of multi-component compound sentences revealed in the novel "On the Humble Field" by Val. Shevchuk, to carry out their classification, to consider the peculiarities of the use of these constructions in the context of the work. In order to realize the specified goal, the following tasks must be solved: 1) identify the multi-component compound sentences recorded in the novel "On the Humble Field"; 2) analyze the structure of these sentences; 3) to classify the detected multi-component compound sentences; 4) trace the functioning of these sentences in the analyzed work. As a result of examining the syntactic parameters of Valery Shevchuk's language production, there was revealed the use of complex constructions, in particular multi-component compound sentences. There was carried out the classification of these constructions by the method of modeling subordinating parts and their connections, three main varieties were distinguished: complex subordinate clauses with sequential subordination, complex subordinate clauses with subordination: homogeneous and heterogeneous, the most - with sequential subordination. In the novel "On the Humble Field" written by Val. Shevchuk multi-component complex sentences have different stylistic load. Often they characterize various circumstances under which events take place, depict nature. It was noticed that multi-component complex sentences often express the psychological state of the characters. As a result of the analysis, it was found that in his works Val. Shevchuk actively uses multi-component compound sentences, among which compound sentences with sequential subordination are the most common. It was noticed that the writer most often uses these multi-component complex constructions with pictorial and emotional-expressive load.

Vegetal and zoomorphic imagery as a means of artistic embodiment of the natural/artificial opposition in Guy de Maupassant's novel "Our Heart"

The article is devoted to the analysis of the vegetative and bestiary poetics of Guy de Maupassant's late psychological novel "Our Heart" (1890), which lacks the proper attention of literary scholars both in France and abroad (scientific reflection is focused on short stories and novels of the heyday of Maupassant's realism). Therefore, its poetic study and introduction into the modern literary context is an actual scientific task. The purpose of the article is to define the semantics and symbolism of plant and bestiary imagery in the artistic structure of G. de Maupassant's novel "Our Heart" and to establish its functions in the realization of natural/artificial opposition, that is conceptual for the novel. The research was carried out in the framework of the structural-semiotic method of analysis of the artistic text. The analysis of the novel from the point of view of the artistic functions of floral and zoomorphic imagery proved the special place of these tools in deepening the psychological picture and expressive-emotional expressiveness of the images of the protagonists: André Mariolle and Madame de Burne. The range of these tropes is from vegetal and zoomorphic comparisons and metaphors to elaborate zoo- and dendroanthropomorphic images (Michelle de Burne is first a ‘bird of paradise’, a ‘wild bird’, then a ‘hawk of prey’ and, allusively, an ‘ostrich’, and also an old tired ‘horse’, a ‘nag’; Mariolle – is a ‘trapped wounded animal’, a ‘thrush in a cage’, a ‘small fish caught in a net’). The plant analogue of the heroine is a man-made flower garden, which gradually withers and decays, as her love for Mariolle fades away. Michelle's image is accompanied by numerous floral details that acquire a metaphorical meaning (these are cultural flowers of selected varieties – roses, orchids, carnations, geraniums, lilies of the valley, chrysanthemums, lilies etc.). In contrast to the “artificial” Michelle, the image of the “natural” Elizabeth is associated with wild forest plants – violets, gorse etc. The protagonist is correlated with ramified dendrosymbolism (chestnut, beech, oak, linden etc.) and the image of the forest as a secret liminal space. The symbolism of the wild forest is opposed in the novel by the symbolism of an orderly garden (as one of the options for embodying the natural/artificial opposition). Vegetal and zoomorphic images not only accompany the characteristics of the characters, but are also closely intertwined, passing one into the other (the anthropomorphic image of fused trees turns into the image of a battle between a predatory beast and its victim, plant juices become living blood). Subjective signs of the main character's “artificiality” are the images of stone flowers and stone animals decorating the central spatial locus of the novel – Abbey Mont Saint Michel. So, florisms, dendrisms and animalistic images in the novel perform a characteristic function, convey the dynamics of the feelings of the protagonists, acquiring a metaphorical meaning, and fill the landscape with symbolic details.

METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF FORMING THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN LITERATURE READING LESSONS

The State Standard of Primary Education defines the general and mandatory results of education, which reflects the personal achievements of students in the categories of competences. It was determined that the artistic text should be considered as a means that will help to explain the complex concepts of life to the child through artistic images, to form a more rational emotional response to possible human actions. Deep penetration into the artistic text, the emotional state of the characters helps to understand the motives of their actions, develop one's own attitude to what is read, forms the ability to empathize with the characters, empathic abilities of primary school pupils. The aim of the paper is to carry out an analysis of modern methods and methods of forming the emotional intelligence of primary school pupils; reveal the essence, content and signs of emotional intelligence. The author's interpretation of the definition of "emotional intelligence" is offered. This is the ability to understand, analyze, control and use feelings and emotions in life situations, understand the emotions of others and communicate with them. The methods and techniques of forming the emotional intelligence of primary school pupils in the lesson of literary reading are described.
 In our research, we came to the conclusion that emotional intelligence is one of the main skills of exchanging oneself and others. A person who is emotionally developed thanks to his emotions and the emotions of others, knows how to achieve life goals. Prospects for further research consist in the further search for methods of forming the emotional intelligence of primary school pupils.

ЛИТЕРАТУРЕН КЛУБ В ДЕТСКАТА ГРАДИНА

Knowing the benefit and the real interaction that dialogic reading brings, I created the Literary Club in kindergarten, enriching the reading algorithm by including the performance of creative tasks, interactive work with artistic texts, joint work with parents. The aims and tasks of the literary club are: forming and developing an attitude towards children’s literature and books; developing children’s imagination; development of the related children’s speech, the grammatically correct one, increasing sound culture and developing the ability to perceive a literary work; formation of functional literacy; forming the ability to understand moral lessons; involvement of parents in the educational process. The set tasks of the literary club are primarily realized through dialogic reading, the creation of integrative connections with other educational areas, the provision of a suitable environment that stimulates and develops children’s imagination and creativity. The activity of the literary club includes the visits of visiting artists-writers, poets, translators, presenting their works to the children. We often prepare dramatizations of fairy tales, organize individual or team Quiz games and exhibitions of drawings or made models on the theme of „Favorite literary character“. And all the time, our faithful partners are the parents of the children.

ONYMS AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOSPEL CODE OF LITERARY TEXTS BY A. P. PLATONOV

The work is devoted to the analysis of the onyms included in the Gospel code of A. Platonov’s literary texts. The relevance of the research is due to the absence of works revealing the peculiarities of using onyms as representatives of the Gospel code of Platonov’s literary texts. Continuous sampling, linguistic observation and description, textual analysis, and analysis of the cultural and historical background methods were used in the research. In the writer’s worldview, social, religious, philosophical and mythological components are closely intertwined, and the writer’s attitude to religion and God is ambiguous. This resulted in the unique implementation of the gospel code in Platonov’s artistic texts, which are represented by biblionyms (the writer uses the names of Orthodox holidays, icons, excerpts from prayers as the titles of his works) and chrononyms (the names of Orthodox holidays). With the help of onyms representing the gospel code, the author sacralizes the names of political figures. Allusions to the Old and New Testaments arise in A. Platonov’s literary texts: the author refers to parables and legends that are traditional in a believer’s representation of the world, but religious subjects in the writer’s works are reinterpreted, due to the existing attitude towards religion in society.

Інтермедіальна поетика біографічної кіноповісті І. Драча та І. Миколайчука «Київська фантазія на тему дикої троянди-шипшини»

The trend of syncretization of arts in the modern world is spreading and this causes interest in the method of intermedia analysis in literary studies. Today we can observe a kind of “intermedia boom” (H. Levchenko); studies on the problems of synthesis and interaction of arts have become relevant, an intermedia code is actively offered for understanding problems, architecture, artistic means, narrative strategies, images of a literary work. Intermediality is relevant to the methodology of modern literary studies and also offers a new perspective on those artistic texts that are on the periphery of theoretical interests due to the uncertainty regarding their inter-artistic identification. A film story about a composer is an interesting phenomenon of intermedial synthesis, since different channels of intermedial communication, such as literature, cinema and music, are simultaneously involved. The intermedial poetics of Ivan Drach and Ivan Mykolaichuk’s film story “Kyiv Fantasy on the Theme of a Wild Rose-hip” (1984), which is about the founder of Ukrainian classical music, public figure, musician-virtuoso and outstanding scientist-ethnographer Mykola Lysenko, is analyzed. Perfectly combining the private and creative beginnings, the successful tandem of I. Drach and I. Mikolaichuk is managed to present a rich and difficult life of a talented person and a brilliant composer from early childhood to his death. Using a two-level composition of the unfolding of events, the reader/spectator is presented with the journey of Mykola Lysenko in adulthood, where memories are retrospectively used: first childhood, then youth, and then student years, etc. The artists also tried to find out the complicated relationship of the composer with his wife Olga O’Connor and the mother of his children – Olha Lypska. In addition to this, the film story presents the image of the artist in the discourse of contemporary historical events, social processes, in the discourse of events that had significant cultural value, thus presenting the composer as a citizen-patriot, and as a public figure, and as an important cultural figure. The image of a rose-hip stands out as a symbol and a metaphor that combines saturated biographical material into a single whole – a symbol of the “people’s soul, song”.

SECONDARY SCHOOL MATURITA READING LISTS AS A MOTIVATION TO SUPPORT READING

Reading motivation is incredibly important for both formal and informal lifelong learning. According to research studies such as PISA (2018) (Programme for International Student Assessment), PIRLS (2021) (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study), educating active readers is a key priority. A study was conducted using the content analysis method of documents "School Maturita reading lists" to determine the actual content of the current school reading lists of artistic texts in the reality of technically oriented secondary schools in the Moravian-Silesian and Olomouc regions of the Czech Republic. In addition, the researchers aimed to discover what kinds of non-cognitive aspects influence reading among students at technical secondary schools using the method of semi-structured interviews with 12 students. One of the most exciting findings of this research was that more than half (75%) of respondents believed that motivational reading recommendations from parents, family spending free time reading, and awareness of the value of reading for life were among the solid non-cognitive factors influencing their interest in reading, the joy of talking about what they have read, experience sharing. External and internal factors can shape pupils' attitudes and motivation to read. The majority (90%) of the respondents considered school Maturita reading lists a formal study obligation.