Mit tristanowski

The article attempts to discuss and evaluate the book The Passion of the Tristan Myth in Modern Literature, Philosophy, and Music by Artur Żywiołek, which was published in Cracow in 2021. The reviewer starts with the legend of Tristan and Isolde, which the book explores through modernity. According to the author of the article, the book about Tristan myth combines methodologies of such fields as literary studies, musicology, history, cultural studies and philosophy in a great way. In the conclusions, the reviewer evaluates the book in a favourable light, and states that it constitutes an original analysis which will have a considerable influence on the comparative studies.

RESEARCH PROBLEMS IN SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL LITERATURE OF EDUCATION IN HEROIC EPOSES

Outstanding heroic epics created by the Azerbaijani people (Kitabi-Dede Gorgud, Koroglu, Gara Malik, Gachag Nabi, Gachag Kerem, Gara Tanryverdi, Samed bey, Gandal Nagi, etc.), being the totality of education, morality, spirituality, are of particular value. The representations that have been formed over millennia, national-spiritual values with all aspects were reflected in the dastans, making up the main line. The interest shown since the beginning of the nineteenth century led to the analysis of these epics at various levels. The interest of representatives of the Azerbaijani, Turkish, European, Russian intelligentsia in the heroic epics was also caused by the content of the ethnocultural system. Description of colorful elements in episodes, events, motives of dastans, starting with the formation of personality and ending with patriotic education, directly reveals the essence of the existing educational system and requires extensive research. From the point of view of clarifying the historical and cultural current and its functional essence, the rules of society in the field of education, such models created by the European peoples of the majestic epics as "Beowulf", "Saga of Cuchulainn", "Song of Side", "Tristan and Isolde", "The Great Saga", "Little Saga". Azerbaijani heroic dastans were also studied by prominent representatives of the European scientific and cultural environment of the 19th century, such as F. Dietz, T. Nyoldeke, J. Sand, V.V. Bartold, I. Chopin, A. Khodzko, who singled out education, national, spiritual, moral values of the Azerbaijani people.

FEATURES OF TEACHING TYPOGRAPHY DESIGN STUDENTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE LAYOUT OF THE ALBUM OF GRAPHIC WORKS T.I. BERBASH «TRISTAN AND ISOLDE»)

This article discusses the basic features and key points of teaching typography to design students on the example of the layout of a multi-page publication, which is an art album of graphic works by T. I. Berbes «Tristan and Isolde».

Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden. Tristan and Isolde: Medieval Illustrations of the Verse Romances. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2016. 462 pp., 538 Ill.

Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden’s prodigious volume on illustrations of the Tristan materials fills a gap in research on the Tristan illustrations by providing a single, authoritative resource for them. As the author explains, its purpose is quite simply “to list all the extant manuscripts, artefacts, and objets d’art, and to describe all the scenes depicted on them” (3). Building upon previous studies of illustrations by literary critics and art historians over the past century, including works by Hella Frühmorgen-Voss, Norbert H. Ott, and Robert Sherman and Laura Hibbard Loomis, as well as the exhibition of Arthurian art and literature in Leuven at the XVth Congress of the International Arthurian Society in 1987, Van D’Elden collected over 500 images from the broad span of Tristan sources, identifying them according to the manuscripts or objects which they adorn, as well as categorizing them by the specific scenes in the Tristan materials they depict. Van D’Elden’s efforts to organize and catalogue over 500 items, reproduced clearly and cleanly in fine detail, will serve as a valuable contribution for decades to come to our cross-disciplinary understanding of Tristan, one of the most important tales of the European Middle Ages.