The article surveys how Ivan Turgenev’s love myth is deconstructed in Anton Chekhov’s prose works. The latter writer presents the myth more often than not in an ironic mode of narration. While Turgenev’s axiology is ...

The mythologem ‘white stone’ seems to be one of the most significant motifs in Innokenty Annensky’s poetics. In the article an attempt has been made to demonstrate a close connection between Annensky’s ‘white stone’ and ...

Mit, pojmowanym jako alegoria lub wyraz emocji człowieka, w zmieniającym się kontekście kulturowym ciągle na nowo aktualizuje zawarte w sobie treści. W analizowanym poemacie symboliczny, motywowany wolnomularskim ...

In the paper the following issues are discussed: 1. Gumilev’s and Annensky’s dramas in the context of ‘poetic theatre’; 2. Common features of “Acteon” and “Famira-kifared”; 3. Points of disagreement between the playwrights ...

Comparing the two interpretations of Medeas’s myth the author of the article is primarily interested in the problem of the perspectives of genre (tragedy as it was defined by Aristotle) in modern theatre. In this connection ...

The Russian Masonic poets attempted to propagate their ideology and the mythology based on it through a coherent system of poetic imagery. In this context a particular place was occupied by the myth of Cupid and Psyche, ...

Статья посвящена феномену сверхтекста, его характеристике и классификациям. Осо- бое внимание уделяется Петербургскому тексту Александра Кушнера. Рассматриваются клю- чевые для данного сверхтекста образы и их репрезентации ...