Vol 22, No 3 (2017)

The aim of the author is to emphasize in the life and personality of J. Brodsky some important moments based upon memories of K. Proffer. Analysis of poet’s moral statements is being made, as well as his attitude to the “red” socialist as a dominant evaluative criteria, manifested in his assessments of contemporary writers. The analysis reveals choked consciousness of Brodsky in exile as well as high importance of his history of love - “feeling incredibly strong and long”. All these points witnesses that Brodsky was a personality tragic destiny and unique originality.

The article attempts to reveal the complexity and stereoscopic nature of the conflict in the Pushkin’s tragedy “Boris Godunov” through categories of law and the legality of authorities in their historical, legal and moral understanding. The author of the work takes notice on the fact that in the play two views on the essence and origin of the tsarist power - the national-Orthodox (religious-symbolic perception of the tsar’s power) and the western (the desire for formal legality) collide. The first point of view is expressed by the people, the second is expressed by Boris Godunov. Pushkin examines different ideas about the legality and shows how their clash creates a situation in which one of the real historical forces is manipulated by others, and the mismatch of the notion of legality leads to a conflict between the ruling tsar and the people.

The article is based on linguistic poetics and devoted to clarifying category of lyricism which forms style of Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin’s prose. In prose of this author appear many features like instance musicality, poetizing of depicted reality, subjectivity, weaken of the narrative, realized by the means of certain phonetic and lexical methods.

The author’s problem in Ryurik Ivnev’s ‘The Sun in the Coffin’ (1921) is studied from the author’s perspectives. It is concluded that at least three Ryurik Ivnev’s strategies as an author can be distinguished: the first, the least obvious, coming from his youthful excitement about Nadson’s neo-romantic poetry, Baudelaire’s and Blok’s symbolism and appearing in a very weakened form, can be called a decadent one. The second strategy is determined by the poet’s recent belonging to egofuturism. The third one was formed under the influence of imaginism aesthetics, to which the poet was attracted when writing the book. Ryurik Ivnev’s strategies, spontaneously but sometimes consciously, were aimed at forming the literary image of the author, identified with the persona. The themes and motives of the book are concentrated around the hypertrophic and screened in the text «I» which becomes the center of Ryurik Ivnev’s poetic worldview. All the strategies are intricately intertwined and give rise to the quality of the style that distinguishes sharply ‘The Sun in the Coffin’ against the background of the Russian poetry of the 1920s and which can be referred to as surrealism.

The task of this article is to reveal the motive of emptiness in V. Pelevin’s novel “Chapaev and Void”.We consider the philosophical basis of the concept of emptiness in the artistic picture of the novel’s world, the origins of which date back to eastern and western cultures. The concept of “emptiness” in the work of V. Pelevin is seen as an attempt to gain new ideological attitudes in the conditions of a spiritual and philosophical crisis. Not only the main images of the novel Chapaev and Pustota are analyzed, but also minor story lines that are of no small importance for understanding the image of emptiness in the novel.

In this article the main attention is paid to research into the narrator’s time and the autobiographical hero’s time in the Modern Russian autobiographical prose. First of all it gives outlines of the leading position of the time in the binarization of “time / space” and explanations for relationships of the narrator’s time and the autobiographical hero’s time. The epic time is described as the basic time of the narrator, which manifests itself mainly in two points - change or cessation of chronological movements of the hero. The biographical time is regarded as the dominant time of the autobiographical hero, in which growth and evolution of the hero occur. The study on intersection of the biographical time with historical, everyday and mythological times occupies a great place in the article.

The article touches upon the peculiarities of the screen version of the story “The Late Child” after A. Alexin. The author comes to the conclusion that the film demonstration to the public some ways of meditation upon the text, based on visual symbols, cinema messages, presupposing a deep and multisemantic reading of the original text. Multidimential synthesis allows to transfers the deep psychological and artistic value of the story, enriching the plot, adding and meanings. The involvements of music, art and architectural images demonstrate the interaction of creative principals of the writer and the director of the film.

The article touches upon the peculiarities of the archetype figurativeness appearance in Spanish poetry of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article starts with brief coverage of the theoretical aspect of the topic - analysis of the Agonism conception, which is concerned with a new type of a hermit in the Spanish literature. The research takes up the main character of a famous Spanish poet Unamuno - a suffering Warior-messiah, an Agonist or a Wanderer. A Wanderer is Unamuno’s original concept, which has archetypical features and peculiarities in its deepened world view. The reasonings and the conclusions of the work are based on critical and literary studies of recent years, and works of both famous and little known poets of the modern age.

The process of social capital acquisition and development by entering professional groups and developing social networks is investigated in this article. The mechanisms of social capital usage through the certain type of ties are also examined and the typology of professional groups is made. Moreover, professional benefits got by Facebook users with the help of mediatized communities and ties are researched.

The authors propose to consider the effectiveness of journalistic texts published in new media, using an integrative approach that will combine the techniques of journalism and Internet marketing. One option is to adapt the methods used by advertising agencies. The article denotes the problem of compatibility of marketing techniques with a formalized scale which was used by the media in the period prior to epoch of digital communications. The authors come to the following conclusion: journalists possessing both marketing thinking and social and technological competencies can create texts for new media taking into account key efficiency indicators.