No 1 (2016)

The poems of the first book of verse by M. Voloshin are analysed in terms of life and death, instant and eternity, philosophy of time, subtext and secret meaning. The cycle of little poems “When Time stops” is analysed. The main thing is the concept of “cave - space” in the sonnet “Grotto of Nymphs” set against antroposophic theory. The tie of the verse with the treatise of Greek thinker Porfiriy is traced. The sonnet is perceived as mystical project of poet’s fate.

The article considers the system of artistic hypnology in the lyrics of B. L. Pasternak. Detailed analysis from the point of view of mythopoetic be the group of poems in which the dream - plot motif. The selected poems are divided into three groups: 1) the dream is an omen or a source of new knowledge;the dream and the sleep, are part of the system of cosmogonic myth; 3) the motif of the dream as a call care to another reality. All poems are arranged in a system in which man is conceived with the Universe. The lyrical subject and the poet himself in this case appears as a demiurge, creating a consistent world of the universe in visions and poetic creativity. The dream - state, akin to poetic inspiration, but it is implemented in the state of wakefulness and hard work. In the dream, the lyrical subject gets a secret understanding about the world that after awakening embodies in poetic creativity.

In the article Varlam Shalamov’s ideas of the role and tasks of art and literature are analyzed, his conception of writer and poet’s moral duty is revealed. Proved that Shalamov’s creation is the organic continuation of specific directive of Russian literature, when the main tasks of the writer are the assertion of moral values and answer ethic questions - for Varlam Shalamov it is, in the first place, the question about conservation of personality in the inhuman conditions. Based the statement that in Varlam Shalamov’s creativity the traditional for Russian world outlook perception of literature as the central element of culture is continued. The author of the article supposes, how Varlam Shalamov’s ideas of mental significance of literature are adjusted with his well-known expressions that he does not believe in art. Shalamov denied the role of literature as a political instrument but acknowledged its indisputable value for moral consciousness of personality.

The article is devoted to the Charles Dickens’ book “Sketches by Boz”, one of the first author’s books which collects the traits of journalism and literature. The hypothesis that Charles Dickens used for attracting and prolongation of audience’s attention the rhetoric tricks is analyzed in the article.The schemes of constructing the text which are used in the modern rhetoric are the generalization of the experience of successful texts and popular speeches, so Dickens could have used the composition schemes since he had the great experience of creating the court sketches and knew many variants of composition schemes and speech practice. The fact that he used these composition schemes helped his sketches to become popular and gave them the interest of key audience. The intuitive usage of these tricks was a great solution for the sketches firstly published one by one in periodical journals then came as a whole book.

In this article the problem of the modern person and traditional art in the modern world is considered. On the basis of the analysis T. Asemkulov’s work “Midday” and D. Amantaya “Flowers and books” the problem of loss and alienation of traditional culture in the field of dwelling of “a modern era” reveals.Focusing attention to images being the sacral center, so-called sacred values the author of article emphasizes skill of the artist who created shape of the modern person and “Adzhigerey’s pochvennik” remote from the contemporaries and the young writer Alisher dreaming to create the book of history. Both of them are followers of national spiritual tradition. If in T. Asemkulov’s prose the world of high traditional culture “leaves under water”, at D. Amantaya “time of literature consigns to the past”.In article the author gives examples which deeply open a problem of alienation of traditional culture and which draw a picture of cross-cultural dialogue and a civilization in prose of writers of the period of independence.

In summer - autumn 2014 the author, using the method of in-depth interview, conducted a survey among 10 people. They are authors of radio programs and top managers of Russian and foreign spoken radio stations. Among them are: S. Buntman, 1st deputy chief editor of “Echo of Moscow”; A. Svetenko, author and columnist, “The lessons of history” to “Vesti FM»; A. Rodionov, deputy chief editor of “Kommersant FM»; E. Serov, from 2008 to 2014 - General Producer of Radio “Star”; A. Shary, deputy director of the Russian service of Radio “Liberty” and representatives of other stations anonymity (their opinion, we have taken into account in data processing), as well as employees of production studios that produce programs for radiostations and know which of them there is a special demand.The author first asks the question of how the process of media convergence, which determines the development of modern mass media, especially affects the flow of spoken content on radio. We came to the conclusion that it has an impact on the reduction of radio program length, mini-columns development and is connected with the tendency to a strong fragmentation of the ether.

The article is dedicated to occurrence of the Jewish press in Europe. Considers Jewish periodicals in European languages, Yiddish and Yebrew. Also the issue is addressed, it allows us to understand how there was a Jewish periodical press. The problem of religious and assimilation of the Jewish community and their reflection on the pages of Jewish periodicals were also given special view. At the turn of XIX- XX centuries publishers failed to go beyond the usual scopes and create a mass press, which aims primarily to inform and protect the interests of Jewish readers in society. The main problems of Jewish periodicals focus in the beginning of XX century, in the era of the formation of a new Jewish press in journalism. A departure from the strict orthodox press of religious dogma, poses on the Jewish press of that period, marked a new time of development and formation of press. In the social periodical Jewish press was evident professionalism of journalists and authors of published materials, in addition, scope issues are extended.

The review covers the monograph by L.G. Kikhney and E.V. Merkel “Osip Mandelstam: the philosophy of word and poetic semantics” which is devoted to Mandelstam’s linguistic philosophy and his individual semantic principal. The main goal is to study Mandelshtam’s interaction of his artistic texts and theoretical ideas concerning the philosophy of word and text as well as author’s and reader’s images. The monograph reveals Mandelstam’s poetic universe during its three development stages. As theoretical reflection in his articles and essays and artistic methods refer to different chronological frames, they inconsistently show Mandelstam’s dialectics of views on the author’s key poetic categories. In this paper the syntagmatic and paradigmatic evolution of notional complexes, complicated interaction of images and inspirations in Mandelstam’s works are described. The particular aspect of his artistic method lies in inclusive and associatively determined «flowing» of certain notional complexes into the others as well as in accumulation of morphologically different, but semantically identical structures.

The review reflects the basic range of problems identified and resolved by professor O. Fedotov in the monograph “Between Mozart and Salieri (a poetic gift of Nabokov)”. It is emphasized the significance of scientific work, independence and validity of the author’s position, the value of the materials used in scientific research for the first time.