No 4 (2012)

The relationship between aesthetic consciousness and reality is investigated in the article. The process of interaction between the aesthetic and artistic consciousness in the Romantic period is analyzed. Thesis that in the nineteenth century aesthetic consciousness as a set of aesthetic views of the era is formed in the literature, creating conditions for the transformation of Romanticism into a particular world view, substantiates in the article. The affect of literary and aesthetic processes of the romantic era on the forming of modernist aesthetics is investigated in the article.

The article is concerned with one of the key events of K. Balmont’s life — his suicide attempt on the 13 th of March 1890. Balmont had never forgotten that day, he wrote about it in his autobiographical works. The attempt is also mentioned in a variety of memoirs and biographical essays dedicated to him. Nevertheless, this «super-event» hadn’t been thoroughly explored in context of Balmont’s creative life as a key detail of his autobiographical myth. Balmont’s prosaic writings and poetic recollections of the 13 th of March are analyzed in the article from this point of view.

The article describes an influence of east philosophy and art upon M. Voloshin’s creative work especially upon his “Kimmerian” poetry.

The article gives us characteristics of the poetics peculiarities of works by A. Siniavsky/A. Tertz belonging to the philological prose where thought development of the researcher goes in the forms related to fiction literature.

On the basis of the translation from Arabic of the novel “Azazel” of the Egyptian writer Yusef Zeidan, the analysis of similarity of its substantial elements with the same-name work of famous Russian writer Boris Akunin is carried out by the authors in the article. Besides, the deep analysis and estimation of reflected in the novels reasons of appearance of both local social problems within the Russian and Egyptian societies, and global ones connected with religious fanaticism and political extremism, is held.

The article discusses the concept of publishing Michael Nikiforovich Katkov, implemented them in the newspaper “Moscow News” in 1851—1856 gg. He believed that the newspapers — a “living bodies of literature”, artistic perception valued above all else, and the “literary composition” of newspapers considered as a field for the spread of “sensible ideas”, “excitement in the minds of the positive power”, the formation of public opinion.

The article discusses the issues concerning to the Brazilian mass media functioning of the media in Brazil at the present stage.

The article is devoted to the mechanism of influence of problem situation reflected in a media text, on the audience and the role of media image in transmission of valuable information.

This article investigates the phenomenon of the blogosphere as its educational features. The hypothesis, which examines the educational features of blogs as a structure-forming. The hypothesis is supported by an analysis of some blogs. It is also seen signs of distance learning in the blogosphere, revealing their characteristic features.

In the article the author regards the common and peculiar features of modern publications dealing with culture in the Russian print media (“Moskovsky Komsomolez”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Rossiyskaya gazeta”, “Izvestiya”, “Vedomosty”, “Trud”). On the basis of the analysis of the case of publications for 2011 (apprx. 450) the author comes to the conclusion that the tendency to individualization and expansion of a cultural perspective has its place.