No 4 (2014)

In his prose Vasilii Grossman offers a unique interpretation of Stalin’s image. In the main Grossman’s novel ‘Life and Fate’ Stalin’s image has got no psychological depth. His is a function of totalitarian state, a living incarnation of state power. His behavior is a behavior of state, and it affects millions of people.

In Ostrovsky’s plays only two characters carry the last names derived from Latin roots, both of them being those artificial surnames given to seminary graduates. One of them - Benevolensky - was widely spread, Ostrovsky knew one person named Benevolensky, Pyotr Mironovich apparently was the prototype for the character of ‘The Poor Bride’ , they both graduated from the seminary, they were both officials in the court. The surname Negligentov was found only among pseudonyms. N.A. Dobrolyubov wrote one of his early articles under this name. There is no evidence that Ostrovsky knew something about this article as there is nothing in common between the article and the play. Dobrolyubov who had mentioned Negligentov in his critical articles twice apparently did not see this character as a parody of himself. These surnames are carried by the characters in the early Ostrovsky’s plays (‘The Poor Bride’ , 1851, ‘A Protégée of the Mistress’ , 1858), later on all family names were derived from the Russian words, mostly the dialectal ones.

The article deals with the problem of Gothic style in Western literature. The main part of the text is devoted to the issues of its origin and cultural background, the origin of the term itself and its application to fiction, the main stages of the classical Gothic novel and the rise of the Neo-gothic tradition. The main points of the article are illustrated by the examples from most typical Gothic texts, from Walpole’s ‘Otranto’ to Lewis’s ‘The Monk’, alongside with the crucial aesthetic and philosophical ideas of the period, the concept of the Sublime, developed by Burke, included. The article also touches upon the problems of academic studies of the Gothic literature and its reception by undergraduate audience.

This article analyses a poem, composed by the founder of national Afghani literature Khuskhal-khan Khattak, which represents a remake of traditional Indian love treatises and combines features of surrounding Persian and Indian traditions. The qasidah, telling how to make the right choice of life partner, becomes another chapter of ‘life encyclopedia’ that the author was creating throughout his whole literary work. Carefully selecting and modifying classical material, Khuskhal-khan integrates it with his own observations, subjects it to his literary aims and thus in the end creates a unique piece. The poem composed in accordance with such way of working reflects the specifics of ‘young’ Medieval literature emergence process.

Article dedicated to the creation and establishment of the literary and artistic «thick» journal «Druzhba narodov» in the period from 1928 to 1955. The evolution of the almanac in the periodical, the emergence in its pages the basic principles of multi-ethnicity of the literary process in the USSR and consolidation around the publication of talented translators, including Boris Pasternak, N. Z, Andrei Tarkovsky, P. Antokolsky, S. Lipkin, N. Grebnev, J. Kozlowski et al. analyzed the literary and political agenda almanac, expressed the commitment of the official exchange rate of the State and the canons of socialist realism.

The article examines communication competence level of participants in TV talk show broadcasts of the federal channels at the beginning of 2014. It explains the concept of the notion introduced by the german philosopher J.Khabermas, gives levels` classification which to a large extent explains behavior of participants and complications a moderator faces in the course of discussion. Typical mistakes of the side of moderators are analyzed and explained.

In the article the interview genre resources in discovering methods of representation of national Chechen culture, emphasizing the image of the respondent as a carrier of cultural values of it's people.

The article discussesthe process of copyright formationinIndia.Development ofintellectual property rightsin Indiahas a dynamiccharacter; the national legislation is undergoingtransformationin an effort toensure the preservation ofthe balancebetween the interests ofcreators and consumersof media products, as well as to bring thelegislative instruments to international standards.Particular qualities of copyright in India are determined with active integrationof the countryinto the world economyand the courseon the developmentof Indian society.

This article describes the nature of the relationship between the subjects of Internet environment based on the ideology web 2.0, to give new impetus to viral marketing. Analyzes the impact of online communication force protection as a proven place to organize business information and display of advertising and reputational campaigns.

The article discusses the origins and development of the Internet in Vietnam, the social peculiarities of Vietnamese Internet audience, the basic activities and habits of Vietnamese Internet users. The author also studies the system of Vietnamese electronic newspapers, their typology, information orientation and development trend and provides the analysis of major problems in the development of online media in Vietnam.