The paper discusses a peculiar way of dialoguing with tradition, namely by way of intertitles, as is the case in Boris Akunin’s novel Vneklassnoye chtenie (Extracurricular Reading). The effectiveness of the dialogue is ...

The article is devoted to an important aspect of modern aesthetics – intertextuality, which is discussed on the example of film adaptations of Russian classics. Adaptation is considered in the framework of literary-scientific ...

Contemporary Russian drama enters into a dialogue with literary tradition and in particular with the dramatic one. The works of the classics of modernism, including Anton Chekhov, very often become actualized in recent ...

The article deals with various types of dialogue of cultures in the songs by Veronika Dolina. The genre of “author song” (Russian and Soviet singer-songwriters’ works) is analysed as a special kind of dialogue with ...

The main focus of this essay concerns creative ways of depicting contemporary Russian reality in Ludmila Ulickaja’s play “Russian Preserves”. The image of reality is created on the basis of quotations, topical references ...

The article shows how the romantic type of artistic mentality manifests itself in postmodern epoch. The main goal here is to study the reception of romantic plot, romantic heroes and conflict on the basis of Dmitriy ...

The article addresses postmodern plays by recent Russian playwrights, which use the plot of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, such as L. Petrushevskaya, B. Akunin, V. Korkiya and brothers Presnyakov. It demonstrates different ...

The paper discusses employing a highly intertextualized text in translator training. Using an example of a humorous story in Russian, the author describes the advantages of the classroom use of such a text. They encompass: ...

The essay based on the analysis of the story Merry Gertrude by contemporary author Y. Buyda addresses the forms and functions of inter-cultural dialogue as a means of re-flections of the author's standpoint.

The creative principles and techniques of Anton Chekhov have proved attractive to modern writers. Many late-20th-century authors, e.g. Tendryakov or Sasha Sokolov, used the naiveté and naturalness of a child’s mind when ...