No 4 (2011)

The review presents the analysis of the content and the form of a traditional Malay poem about the hero Si Pahit Lidah as a vivid example of literary heritage of the Malay world. The close interest to the poem is caused by the balance of the content and form in times on the eve of the tradition changings, among the flourishing region literatures based on local folklore.

The article considers a composition and episodes montage in the Plays on the Motives of fairy-tales such as a character introduction from the author, interruptions of the main act line of a fairy-tale by the other parallel act, scene changings. The article analyses the plays by G. Sokolova, A. Anisimov and L. Filatov

In article are generalized the processes аctivization of the comparative literature in Russia in 70th of the XX-th century. The special attention is given to the Russian scientists who have suggested to compare literatures not only similar historical generality as it was earlier, but also literatures in many senses stay far from each other. V. Zhirmunsky offers four basic aspects of comparative studying of literatures. The scientist considered folklore and the Middle Ages literature, however his approach is productive for studying and comparison of such authors as Guy de Maupassant and I. Bunin

The article examines the process of formation in Russia of the new media space, which, in particular, is characterized by the emergence of regional media. Television and radio companies today have each entity of the Russian Federation, in many regions they are tens or even hundreds. The author examines the impact of media on political attitudes in society, their interaction with the government, freedom of expression, the level of transparency.

This article examines some of the key aspects of the ethical and legal issues in russian mass media.

The reviewed book of the modern English theorist of a modernism Max Saunders, Selfimpression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction and the Forms of Modern Literature, offers original research of a phenomenon of the life-writing. Saunders analyzes, in parallel with critical work concerning the autobiography in fiction, works of the first row of the European literary modernism and postmodernism with 1870 for 1930. He offers new treatment of dialogue of the author - hero - reader, caused by the selfimpression-autobiography of the reader as reaction to the selfimpression-biography of the author put in the text. For this purpose the scientist assorts as, in what ways writers unite life-writing with a fiction. As a result Saunders's research forces to reconsider the settled concepts about the autogenic hero and a parity of the author - hero - reader, especially in Soviet-Russian scientific tradition.