The article adresses Russian absurdist drama in the context of disourse analysis, showing the procedures of semantisation as being based not on the immanent textual characteristics, but on the outward reality and literary ...

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 narrative Gradov town written by A. Platonov attracted attention of many researchers in Soviet and Post Soviet periods. The most interesting approaches to interpretation are revealed in this work: widening of “bureaucracy” ...

The aim of this article is to analyze four different poems of 20th century Russian writer David Samoylov: The End of Don Juan, The Old Don Juan, The Young Don Juan and The Comandorov`s Footsteps. All of them are new ...

Within the framework of the studies concerning the reception of the poetry of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska in the Soviet Union and in Russia, the author explores the issue of the political context in the target cultural ...

In the contemporary literary studies, the category ‘motto’ has a well-established position, although one often meets an opinion that a uniform theory of universal motto has not been developed yet. This article is an ...

Contemporary natal narrative is studied in the article from the perspective of influence on it of mythological and story types of texts. Similar to mythological text natal narrative confirms some world outlook and behavior ...

This article discusses studies of some works by Petr P. Potemkin, a poet and playwright of the Silver Age. His plays for revue theatres and cabarets have not been studied yet, and the author of the article suggests her ...