No 2 (2013)

The article is devoted to the origins of V.S. Makanin’s prose, which the author finds in the works of Y.V. Trifonov. In order to identify the presence and influence of Y.V. Trifonov the author considered those components Makanin’s artistic world as the “Moscow text”, poetics of everyday life and the concept of “self-flowing life”, the system of characters, the essence of the conflict between the characters (“lucky man”/”unlucky fellow”), the motif of “runaway”. The study brings to light the general artistic creativity code that reveals the genesis of Trifonov’s ideas and images in Makanin’s prose: the elegiac tone of the descriptions of the old Moscow replaced dispassionate sketching stages of capital’s urbanization, the intelligent person was rethinking as the “middle man”, a situation of moral compromise tapered to embarrassing situations, the motif of “runaway” is deprived of positive content and becomes a kind of escapism.

The article is devoted to the problem of biblical reception in Russian rock-poetry. Having analyzed Boris Grebenshikov’s interviews and texts, the author highlights his specific strategies for «alien» words interiorization. The article tells about biblical code and mechanisms of biblical text interiorization in Boris Grebenshchikov rock-poetry. The originality of individual creative manner of the rock-poet is revealed through the aspect of poetics under consideration.

The peculiarities of space as one of components of chronotop in M. Peake’s trilogy “Gormenghast” are examined in the article. The space is analyzed in three aspects: as stage, narrative and inner space of heroes. The accent is made on revealing the specific peculiarities with respect to traditional gothic chronotop.

In the article is considered the national stereotype as a means for expressing an artistic idea upon the example of A.P. Chekhov’s story «Daughter of Albion». The key features of stereotype (as a concept which came from sociology and psychology) receive special refraction in the world of a work of art, on the basis of the main character of a stereotype to draw the line between “domestic” and “alien”.

The article shows the approach to an important typical problem (particularly for the emigration) of national and historical essence and fate in the journal “Syntax” and ways of solving it.

The paper describes the relationship between two paradigms: the press and the business and the press as an implementation of social priorities. Modern practice of mass communication gives examples of these paradigms and their interaction.

The purpose of the article — to establish the reasons of popularity of parody telecasts. The author tries to comprehend features of screen perception of an audiovisual parody image from the point of view of media TV-specifics. As the initial thesis — the concept of doubling of reality as spaces of formation of the parody double. Interactivity of modern TV is considered as a condition of maximizing natural properties of the parody. Eventually the article draws a conclusion about a spiral trajectory of reconsideration process of an initial content in a television parody.

This article presents the results of a study of modern missionary publications of the Russian Orthodox Church. First presented typological analysis missionary press. The author defines signs Orthodox missionary magazines and newspapers, their characteristics.