ONLY STAYING THE COURSE REALLY MATTERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Tatiana Yurchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Adventure Fiction ◽  
Associative Connection ◽  
First Time ◽  
Positive Character ◽  
Critical Reviews

This article addresses the peculiarities of genre, style and personages of V. Sorokin’s new novel «Doctor Garin» (2021) with the reference to the latest critical reviews. It is stressed that «Doctor Garin» is the first writer’s experience in the adventure fiction and that because of this fact his novel for the first time has both the happy ending and a protagonist with positive character traits. Also the genres of romance, fairy tale, menippea and even stealth are mentioned as having some features in common with Sorokin’s novel. A special attention is paid to the associative connection with Russian literature.

THE FRENCH SALON FAIRY TALE IN THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XVIII CENTURY: READERS AND WRITERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana I. Rozhkova ◽  
Olga Y. Kolesnikova ◽  
Maria L. Skvortsova ◽  
Svetlana V. Ovcharova ◽  
Tatiana V. Drozdova
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Xviii Century

scholarly journals Images of game and gamer in the space of literature and computer games

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Olga Anatol'evna Bychkova ◽  
Aleksandra Valer'evna Nikitina
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Queen Of Spades ◽  
First Time

The subject of this research is the images of game and gamers. In the space of literary work, they are arrayed in metaphorical and often demonic raiment, receiving moral-ethical interpretation in one or another way. The problem of game and gamer in criticism was regarded by Y. Mann (“On the Concept of Game as a Literary Image”), V. V. Vinogradov (“Style of the Queen of Spades”), E. Dobin (“Ace and Queen”, A. Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades”), R. Caillois (“Games and People”), British writer and researcher of online games R, Bartle, American scientist Nick Yee, and many others. However, juxtaposition of literature sources on the topic to the research in the field of computer games is conducted for the first time. The scientific novelty consists in the comprehensive examination of the psychological game of the gamer based on the material of Russian literature (A. S. Pushkin “The Queen of Spades”, V. V. Nabokov The Luzhin Defense”) , as well as the modern computer games practice, in which psychological type of the gamer found its realization and development in accordance with genre diversity. Even the Russian classical literature depict game as an autonomous space that encompasses the gamer, and often has devastating effect on their personality. The author also observes an important characterological trait of the gamer: the conceptual, “literal” perception of the world, which is based on the reception of visual images of the world against verbal. Therefore, the Russian literature alongside the research practice of modern videogames from different angles approach examination of the images of “game and gamer”, cognize the factors and consequences of the problems that emerge in this object field, as well as seek for their solution. The data acquired in the course of the conducted comparative analysis is mutually enriching.

scholarly journals M.E. Levberg’s Play “Danton” as Perceived by А. Blok

Literary Fact ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Veronika B. Zuseva-Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aleksandr Blok ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

The article considers the unpublished play by Maria Levberg, a little known female writer of the Silver Age. Aleksandr Blok praised this drama entitled Danton; thanks to his efforts, it was performed in the Bolshoi Drama Theater in 1919. Danton is discussed in several articles by Blok (Bolshoi Drama Theater in the Next Season, of 19 May 1919, Tribune (Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus)) and in his correspondence; it is also mentioned in Blok’s notebooks. The author of the article analyzes all these mentions, reconstructs the history of interactions between Blok and Levberg. Some of her letters to the poet are published here for the first time. Blok’s notes on the typed copy of Danton, preserved at the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature in Saint Petersburg, are described. The relationship between this version of the play and the version, preserved at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts in Moscow, is revealed. The author analyzes the plot and the system of characters, characterizes the concept of history expressed in Danton, and proposes the hypothesis why this play turned out to be so dear to Blok. Blok’s reviews on Danton are compared to those written by A.M. Remizov (who also welcomed the play, as well as other dramas by Levberg — Stones of Death and The Chevalier’s Epee) and by M.A. Kuzmin who displayed a more critical attitude. Finally, the place of this drama among Levberg’s works and her main themes and ideas are considered.

FROM THE “NOTEBOOKS” OF PROFESSOR A.V. KARAVASHKIN

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-30
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
First Time

It is for the first time ever that the excerpts from the diary of A.V. Karavashkin (1964–2021), Professor, Doctor in Philology, are published. An outstanding researcher of Old Russian literature, Professor Karavashkin was an all rounded man of versatile personality, a truly major representative of the humanities, he was close to different fields of knowledge: philology, linguistics, cultural history, philosophy. Diary entries show an extraordinary personality in his time of life. Thoughts and judgments of the humanist were aimed at the most acute and deepest issues of life.

Supra-constitutional norms in constitutional law

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-127
Author(s):  
Dmitry Shustrov
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Positive Character ◽  
Constitutional Changes

The idea of supra-constitutionality was formulated in the science of constitutional law in the second quarter of the 20th century and associated with the names of M.Hauriou and K.Schmitt, who for the first time noticed the possibility of the existence of norms that are higher than the constitution. This article is an attempt to give the doctrine of supra-constitutionality an actual theoretical and dogmatic meaning in the context of the study of the material limits of constitutional changes. The doctrine of supra-constitutionality claims to play an important role in explaining that unchangeable norms can exist in constitutional law and that they cannot be excluded, changed, limited, overcome, affected by the other sources of constitutional law, including the constitution itself. Supra-constitutionality is viewed as a characteristic of unchangeable constitutional norms that constitute the material limits of constitutional changes. Supra-constitutionality presupposes the existence of norms that surpass the rest of the constitutional norms and predetermine their content through the definition of what can, should and should not be included in the constitution or excluded from it. The basis of constitutional supra-constitutionality is the argument of hierarchical differentiation. In addition to recognizing unchangeable constitutional norms as supra-constitutional, the article raises the question of the existence of natural law and international law supra-constitutional norms. Natural law supra-constitutional norms have an external and non-positive character. They are not enshrined in the constitution, but stem from a reasonably understood concept of what is due in the most civilized societies, which is determined by the constitutional court. International law supra-constitutionality is understood as the superiority of the norms of international law over the constitution. It has an external and positive character. International law supra-constitutionality can cause political objections from opponents of the absolute rule of international law. Supra-constitutional constitutional, natural and international law norms can come into conflict with each other. The paradox of the doctrine of supra-constitutionality lies in the fact that it creates a hierarchy of norms within the constitution itself, distinguishing between simple and supra-constitutional constitutional norms, or distinguishes certain non-positive norms that are outside the constitution, as having priority over the constitution, or puts some norms of international law over all norms of national law, including the constitution. The purpose of the doctrine of supra-constitutionality is to preserve the inviolable fundamental (natural or generally recognized) values, which justifies its logical flaws and paradoxicality.

Crossing every barrier

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Mai
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Mise En Scene

This chapter considers the change in direction of Guédiguian’s career in the 1990s, where pessimism and apocalyptic thematics give way to local politics and utopianism, making Guédiguian a leading filmmaker in France during the period. The first two films emphasise the creative imagination as a mode for thinking ways of overcoming difficult political and economic situations. It provides in particular a long analysis of Marius et Jeannette, Guédiguian’s best-known film, emphasising mise en scène and style and themes of globalisation and local renewal. In these films Guédiguian develops a highly original style, based in the fairy tale and the Blochian ‘happy ending.’ With some tempering of the period’s optimism, partly through self-critique and partly in response to other critics, the end of the nineties includes an acknowledgment of the need for more diverse thinking about politics.

scholarly journals Building Socio-Moral Behaviour in Romanian Middle-School Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lupu Costică
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Middle School Education ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
School Year ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
Positive Character

Moral and civic education is complex and achieved in time. Students are active subjects of society involved in community life by means of their families, groups of friends but also specific relationships they have with various institutions. Moral development theories are elements that support the illustration and translation of the educational space into the form of skills, moral habits, positive character traits expressed at the level of the school population. Our research demonstrates the importance of using moral and civic education strategies consistent with the curriculum objectives and content, to contribute to the formation of character traits and socio-moral behaviour of students.  The theme was researched during the 2015-2016 school year at “G. M. Cancicov” Middle School Bacău and involved the support of 4 headmasters of 6th-grade classes, together with 2 teachers of Civic Culture and Religion teaching at these classes. The research group consisted of 90 students, aged 12-13, of whom 45 are girls and 45 boys. There were applied initial evaluation, formative evaluation and final evaluation tests. Comparing the results from the initial and final evaluations it was found that the students’ situation has improved, most students have translated into practice the theoretical elements accumulated,  they built a sense of will and character, as well as moral feelings (friendship, comradeship, respect, etc). From the observations made in various situations it was found that all students have acquired certain moral norms, theoretical aspects were put into practice to a higher degree, students showed more respect towards older, vulnerable people and others, became more polite, with attitudes of openness towards others, regarding punctuality, sincerity and other features as compulsory character traits.

scholarly journals The Category of Sobornost’ in the Iconographic Chronicle Poem of Nikolay Leskov The Cathedral Clergy (Soboryane)

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-237
Author(s):  
Galina V. Mosaleva
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Orthodox Christianity ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Ideal

<p>The article<strong> </strong>regards the evocation of <em>sobornost&rsquo;</em> (conciliarism) as a phenomenon of Orthodoxy in Leskov&rsquo;s chronicle <em>The Cathedral Clergy</em> (<em>Soboryane</em>). The author emphasizes Leskov&rsquo;s manner to poeticize Orthodox dogmatic teachings and the ways of their artistic presentation. By depicting clergy and its religious characters as part of the ideal modes of Russian life Leskov aims at refocusing readers&rsquo; attention on God-centered mind inherent in Russian literature of the 11<span>th</span><span style="font-size: 11.6667px;">&nbsp;</span>&mdash; 16th centuries. A five-part structure of the chronicle is aligned with Stargorod&rsquo;s five-domed Cathedral. Leskov prefers patericon as an inner form associated with its temple and liturgical plots, motives and images. The structure of Leskov&rsquo;s patericon is notable for its iconographic patterns and symbols&nbsp;&mdash; the trend which makes <em>The Cathedral Clergy</em> (<em>Soboryane</em>) a chronicle poem. By poetizing &ldquo;an old Russian fairy tale&rdquo; Leskov seems to restore Slavonic ornamental script as the main principle of his writing which is symbolized in &ldquo;knitting pins&rdquo; depicted in <em>The Cathedral Clergy</em> (<em>Soboryane</em>). Along with the focus on verbality and Orthodox fables Leskov poetizes the Holy Scripture. New Testament (the Gospel according to St. John in particular) seems to be central &ldquo;hagiographic writing&rdquo; related to Stargorod Trinity. The moment of truth for Leskov&rsquo;s character (who is regarded as a christian) has to do with internal eventivity when a person finds himself in front of God&rsquo;s face rather than with external one regardless of pressing social challenges of the latter. Storylines related to the communion with God reflect Leskov&rsquo;s intention to convey mystical nature of Orthodox Christianity.</p>

scholarly journals AN IMMORTAL POEM IN THE WORKS OF UKRAINIAN ARTISTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Petro Nesterenko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
State Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Soviet School ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
First Time

Abstract. For the first time, the article highlights the continued interest of researchers and artists in the memorial of ancient Russian literature of the end of the 12th century, "The Tale of Igor’s Campaign" at the present stage. The peculiarities of the decoration of editions dedicated to the poem performed by domestic artists in the second half of XX — beginning of XXI centuries are investigated. The pearl of ancient Russian literature of the end of the XII century, «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign» does not leave many generations of its admirers indifferent. The 200 th anniversary of the release of the monument of Ukrainian culture has passed, and the interest in the «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign» has not subsided. The magic of this work continues to attract new researchers and artists. Anniversary dates helped to increase interest in the landmark. On the occasion of the 150 th anniversary of the first printing of the poem, J. Hnizdovsky in New York illustrated and artfully decorated the anniversary edition. A quarter of a century the design and illustrations for the poem were performed by Kyiv’s I. Selivanov. G. Yakutovich’s editions, created in the Dnipro publishing house as souvenirs, look like real masterpieces. The engravings of G. Yakutovich were already heard in another edition of «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign», which came out of print in the Kiev publishing house Veselka in 2008. In 1989, the publishing house «Soviet School» published a thorough edition of «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign», illustrations, layout and decoration of which were made by V. Lopata, and the editing and notes by O. Mishanych. The artist’s works are multifaceted in composition and imbued with special drama and symbolism with expression. Equally interesting was the 2015 edition, commissioned by the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine under the Ukrainian Book program. Particularly noteworthy are the graphic works by V. Yefimov from Odessa and M. Bondarenko from Sumy region, who embodied their preferences and unique manners in the work on the poem.

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