No 6 (2024)
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Epistolary of V. Mayakovsky as a discursive space of the author’s self-presentation
Abstract
Modern cognitive and discursive linguistics are a direction in linguistics that focuses on the study of the mechanisms of linguistic representation of personality. Within the anthropocentric paradigm, linguistic research takes on a new dimension, focusing on the study of various aspects of human activity and perception of the world through a linguistic prism, as well as the ways an individual interacts with the sociocultural environment through language. The main subject of analysis within this topic is the study of how individual personality traits are manifested in language and how language influences the formation and expression of these characteristics. Discourse, in turn, is a specific linguistic work (text), in which various linguistic means are implemented and interact, thereby reflecting the identity of the author and his relationship with the social environment. Discourse analysis allows us to identify exactly how linguistic personality is manifested in various types of texts, be it public speech, literary work, scientific text or letters. The epistolary of Vladimir Mayakovsky is one of the most significant sources for studying not only the literary heritage of the author, but also the mechanisms of his self-presentation in the context of cultural life of the early 20th century. Writing as a genre, traditionally recognized as secondary in relation to the main literary works, in the context of Mayakovsky’s work acts as a fruitful discursive space where both intellectual and emotional aspects of his creative personality are revealed through the author’s self-presentation. In the course of analyzing the multidimensional factors of V. V. Mayakovsky’s self-presentation, a set of tools used by the author to structure interaction with the recipients of his texts and to present his identity within the framework of epistolary discourse is determined. Attention is focused on the study of techniques for representing personality in a certain discourse. A discursive analysis of the epistolary heritage of V. V. Mayakovsky allows us to identify the specifics of the author’s self-presentation, which was determined not only by the personal ambitions and life experience of the poet, but also by the broad context of the sociocultural changes of the era.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):7-16
7-16
Metaphorical images of food in polycode texts of the modern Russian-language internet space
Abstract
The article examines the functioning of visual metaphorical images of food in polycode texts of the modern Russian-language Internet space. The wide distribution of polycode texts in the digital environment, their transformation into an active influencing tool of mass communication determines the relevance of studying various mechanisms of interaction between visual images and verbal textual means in the information space of modern man. The purpose of the work is to study visual metaphorical images of food in texts of various discursive nature and genre and stylistic affiliation; in identifying the functions, pragmatic potential, areas of denotative application of visual metaphors with gastronomic semantics; in the description of typical situations of their use in Internet communications. Methodology and methods. The methodology of the work is based on cognitive, discursive, linguoculturological and system-structural approaches to the study of imagery of language and speech, used in the field of semantics of language units, text stylistics, semiotics of images, discursive-pragmatic analysis of Internet communication. When analyzing the visual components of a polycode text, the experience of predecessors in the field of analysis of the composition and typology of visual images that form the iconic element of its complex structure is taken into account. When collecting material, methods of sampling from open Russian-language Internet sources, methods of systematization and classification of verbal-iconic complexes were used. Visual metaphor was studied based on theories of figurative structure of language and cognitive theory of metaphor. The research material is presented in polycode texts, the iconic component of which includes images of food – products, dishes, situations of absorption and cooking. A total of 230 texts were analyzed that included or accompanied the visualization of a gastronomic image in the form of a photograph of an object, a photo collage or a drawing. The study demonstrated that in the modern open Russian-language Internet space on the websites of the media, trade, financial, public and private organizations, one of the effective influencing tools is visual gastronomic images included in polycode texts. Together with verbal elements (inscriptions on images, titles and text fragments of publications), they convey meanings of an allegorical nature, which, as a rule, are based on the figurative semantics of linguistic expressions (chop cabbage ‘make money’), the symbolism of precedent texts (“porridge from an ax” – the name of a Russian fairy tale) and phenomena (state flags, banknotes, leaders of states). The functioning of a visual food metaphor is associated with the manifestation of linguistic creativity and language play, creating a comic effect to attract the attention of the target audience – potential readers and clients. As a result, frequent visual culinary images were identified (cabbage, pies, porridge, grain, peas, mushroom, jar, pan, knife, cook), associative phenomena associated with them, creating a metaphorical and expressive-figurative effect (money, finances, animals, household items, attributes of professions), stable metaphorical models (cabbage – money, pie – financial and political value, kitchen – politics, cooking – carrying out social activities); The communicative areas of application of visual food images in polycode texts (economics, commerce, advertising, politics, entertainment) are characterized. Food metaphorical images are stable and are part of language as a culturally conditioned semiotic system. They are fixed in linguistic units and are consistently reproduced in communication, including using various methods of visualization through iconic elements of polycode texts.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):17-25
17-25
Reflection of personality self-identification process by the standards of Russian linguoculture
Abstract
The article is devoted to determining the peculiarities of self-identification, i.e. self-understanding, by the standards of the Russian linguoculture. To achieve the goal, the author uses onomasiological, component, conceptual analysis, linguocultural interpretation techniques. A standard is a sign of culture, expressing in verbal form stereotypical ideas about the typical features and qualities of a person. Standards have been proved to be the main means for selfidentification of the subject of culture. They objectify various aspects of a person’s inner world, his/her appearance, social interaction. The article establishes that a standard is an element of people’s identity, the result of the identification process, which is accompanied by the characterization of the subject of culture. These processes are embodied in the internal form of the standard, which is considered as a verbal stereotype reflecting the prototypical representation of the denoted phenomenon. The article reveals that all major cultural codes are involved in the formation of standards. The study identifies productive cultural codes that are used in the identification process. They include anthropomorphic, biomorphic, actional. The standards are represented by the units identifying a person as a kind and on certain aspects of his/her life activity. The formation of standards is carried out on the basis of linguocultural types, archetypal representations or practical human observations of reality phenomena. One verbal stereotype can be the basis of different standards. A standard can fix a deviation from the norm, indicating the norm for good or bad. The majority of standards are characterized by pejorative evaluativeness. The research discovers that the standards of anthropomorphic code of culture serve to objectify ideas about types of people oriented towards the inner world or material values. Anthropomorphic stereotypes pointing to social attributes identify features of a person in the context of social relations. Biomorphic stereotypes are based on archetypal knowledge or practical observations. The majority of units of this group record a deviation from the norm or pattern and include a negative evaluation in their meaning, which is explained by the interpretation of the animal as an ersatz human being. Units with positive evaluation dominate among the standards with the image “Bird”. Verbal stereotypes of plants are unproductive and are used mainly to objectify negative aspects. In fetish standards, value and functional characteristics of the object, as well as feelings from contact with it, become significant. Human standards formed on the basis of actional attributes embody ideas about the behavioural norms accepted in the Russian culture. The standards of the animic code reflect the immersion of a person in the context of nature, the feeling of being a part of it.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):26-35
26-35
The application of field theory to describe water-landscape vocabulary in the Khakas language
Abstract
Nature, and especially water resources, play a huge role in the lives of indigenous peoples who rely on natural environments for their sustenance. Water is an integral part of the culture and traditions of the Khakas people, and the names of various types of water, defining their purpose, are passed down from generation to generation. This article explores the use of field structure theory to analyze the lexical group of water-landscape terms in the Khakass language. The main principles of field structure theories are discussed, such as the core and periphery positions in the field. The article also examines the experience of using the theory of grammatical and lexical fields in the works of E.V. Gulyga, A.V. Bondarko, lexical typology of V.Yu. Apresyan and E.V. Rakhilina. The main focus is on the analysis of hydro-landscape vocabulary, which belongs to an important layer of vocabulary in any language. The study is conducted on the material of the Khakass language and includes an analysis of lexemes denoting water bodies found in electronic and printed dictionaries and in Khakass heroic epics “Ay-khuuchin” and “Altyn Aryg”. The study also examines the origin and use of various lexemes to denote rivers (such as sug, us / uus, talay) in the Khakass language. The analysis of linguistic material allowed to construct the lexical-semantic field of hydrolandscape vocabulary of the Khakass language. At the core is the archilexeme sug meaning ‘water, river’. The nearcore zone consists of simple words denoting constant typical water bodies (talay ‘large river’, kōl ‘lake’, etc.). The near periphery includes complex and compound lexical units expressing the meaning of “permanent water bodies” (ylbañ sas ‘swamp’, ylbañ chir ‘marshy place, swamp’, etc.). The far periphery is composed of lexemes denoting temporary water bodies, including those created by humans (salbykh ‘puddle’, arǵaǯakh ‘ditch, small channel’, etc.). The results of the study help to better understand the structure and relationships between lexical units of waterlandscape theme and apply the acquired knowledge for further lexicological research.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):36-45
36-45
Metaphors “solitude is death” and “solitude is desert” and methods of their translation into Russian in the translation of the novel by G. G. Marquez “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
Abstract
The ways of conveying metaphors of two directions are analyzed: loneliness – death and loneliness – desert. The conducted research made it possible to reveal the main part of the metaphorical layer of the concept of “loneliness” in the original novel and to identify the features of its formation. Consideration of the transformations used in the transfer of metaphorical content made it possible to reveal the features of this concept in the translation version. The purpose of the article is to analyze the ways of conveying the expression of the metaphorical content of the concept of “loneliness” in the Russian translation of the novel by G. G. Marquez “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, performed by M. I. Bylinkina. The novelty is determined by the fact that in the stated aspect the text of the novel was not considered and the results of the analysis will contribute to a comprehensive, complete study of the novel, including in the aspect of translation studies. The material for the analysis is the original text of the novel by G. G. Marquez in Spanish and the text of his translation by M. I. Bylinkina. Metaphors included in the concept of “loneliness” and methods of their translation into Russian are analyzed. The descriptive method and the method of comparative analysis, the method of metaphorical modeling are used. The statistics of the used translation transformations were revealed: contextual replacement – 15, generalization – 13, specification – 5, replacement of parts of speech – 8, replacement of sentence members – 6, replacement of word forms – 4, literal translation – 3 uses. The translator most often uses the technique of contextual substitution, transforming a metaphor or part of it into a lexeme with a different semantics. The technique of generalization contributes to changing the periphery of the concept, expanding its meaning, which leads to semantic blurriness. Frequent use of the technique of concretization (narrowing of meaning) leads to the conclusion that in translation the image of loneliness is expressed to a lesser extent, due to the choice of lexemes with a less negative connotation and others with a narrower meaning. The desert is characterized through a desert of disappointment and oblivion; deserted streets, deserted ruins, a desert of mirages, a desert of loneliness, love, glory. Death – through mourning, desolation, cessation of communication, unbearable loneliness, oblivion, lack of response, immersion in loneliness, abandonment, melancholy, cyclicality and inseparability of death and loneliness, an endless labyrinth of loneliness, widowhood without death, damnation, isolation.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):46-55
46-55
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. LANGUAGES OF THE PEOPLES OF RUSSIA
Features of the artistic conceptsphere representation
Abstract
The fundamental, from the author’s point of view, concepts of linguo-aesthetic analysis of a literary text are considered: expresseme and concept. An expresseme is understood as a component of a literary text that provides the perception of the expressive and figurative qualities of aesthetic linguistic material. A concept is defined as a named linguomental construct, embodied in the language in an associative-semantic field. An artistic concept is defined as a phenomenon that is not fundamentally different from the concept in the linguistic picture of the world, but represents the artistic picture of the world and is explicated by figurative means in the broadest sense. The specificity of the presentation of the conceptsphere of F. Tyutchev’s poetic creativity, which is a clearly organized system, is described. The features of the presentation of the concepts NATURE, GOD, LOVE, SLAVRY in the poetic works of F. Tyutchev are analyzed. The focus is on words and super-word nominations, common to the zone of associativesemantic fields, representing three fundamental concepts for F. Tyutchev: GOD, NATURE, LOVE. The concept NATURE qualifies as the most significant in the conceptual sphere of F. Tyutchev’s poetry. Its explicators are primarily lexical expressemes – words and tropical phrases, as well as small figurative syntactic constructions. It is stated that the ideological and artistic concept of GOD is represented by both traditional verbalizers and expressems. The concept LOVE, despite the significance of its content for the poet and its intersection with the field of the concept NATURE, cannot be considered central in his conceptual sphere. The ideological concept SLAVYNESS, which does not include artistic verbalizers in its field, is nevertheless a significant component of the conceptual sphere of F. Tyutchev’s poetic creativity, since it embodies an extremely important point of view for the poet’s worldview on Slavism as a really existing political and moral phenomenon. Consideration of the specifics of the explication of the concept sphere of F. Tyutchev’s poetry allows us to come to the conclusion that the basis of this conceptsphere is the artistic concept NATURE, the associative-semantic field of which intersects with the fields of the equally significant, but less demonstratively presented concept LOVE and the ideological and artistic concept GOD. The ideological concept SLAVRY is interesting not only because it is not represented by expressemes, but also because its associative-semantic field does not intersect with the fields of other components of the conceptsphere.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):56-64
56-64
Representation of the HOME concept (based on literature for children)
Abstract
The study of children’s picture of the world is a current trend in cognitive science. A child’s picture of the world is largely based on the adult model, but it also has its own specificity. The analysis of the child’s picture of the world can be based on 1) the study of the child’s language, 2) the reconstruction of basic concepts that are represented in fictional texts, most often the concept of CHILDHOOD is studied. Books written for children are of particular interest in this case. Children’s literature lays the foundation for a child’s view of the world. Writers convey their vision of the child’s world, but emphasize their value orientations. In children’s picture of the world, HOME-dwelling and HOME-family are the most vividly represented concepts. The house is considered an axiological category, inseparable from material and spiritual values. The concept of HOME is simplified in children’s picture of the world. The HOME-dwelling in it is inseparable from the filling: material things, spiritual values. The layer of the concept HOME-family is realized in books for children through the roles of family members: for the younger ones the world of home is not separated from mum and other relatives; for teenagers the value of HOME-family is learnt through losses and conflicts. In literature, the house is often portrayed as a living entity. However, its liveliness is typically associated with its spiritual content for adults and teenagers, while younger children tend to view the house as an animate being.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):65-74
65-74
Concepts of HONOR and LAW in the names of an illegitimate child and his mother (based on Arkhangelsk dialects)
Abstract
The article examines the linguistic embodiment of the concepts HONOR and LAW, important for folk culture, in the names of an illegitimate child and the woman who gave birth to him. In “Big Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language,” ed. S. A. Kuznetsov honor is defined as “a good, unblemished reputation, a good, honest name. Chastity, chastity, virginity (about women).” A woman who preserved her virginity before marriage is called че́стная ‘honest’; a woman who did not preserve it is called нече́стная, бесче́стная ‘dishonest’. The situation of having children out of wedlock is described by such a construction as роди́тьбесче́стно ‘giving birth dishonorably’. The lexeme law is interpreted as “a rule of social behavior that is generally accepted, mandatory, immutable; custom”. This law prohibits a woman from living with a man without marrying him, and also from leaving her husband. Living in an official marriage means житьпозако́ну ‘living according to the law’, взако́нномбра́ке ‘in a legal marriage’. Accordingly, spouses living in an official marriage are called зако́нными ‘legal’. A child born in an official marriage was born зако́нно ‘legally’. Official (legal) marriage and cohabitation are opposed to each other. If a woman gives birth to a child out of wedlock, she is called беззако́нница ‘wicked’. The situation of having children out of wedlock is described by expressions невзако́н ‘not in accordance with the law’, непозако́ну ‘not according to the law’. This situation can be defined as беззако́ние ‘lawlessness’. Children born out of wedlock are described using the lexemes беззако́нник, беззако́нной, незако́нной, незаконноро́жденной, незаконнорожо́ной ‘illegitimate’. The concept of HONOR is mainly realized in popular ideas about maiden purity and a woman’s behavior before marriage. The concept of LAW for the situation of children born out of wedlock is more significant, because describes it from the point of view of not only moral, but also legal law, generally accepted norms of behavior in a team. Both marriage and children born in it are within the scope of the law, therefore names with the root -закон- ‘law’ apply to both the woman and her child. Both concepts describe human behavior from the point of view of public morality.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):75-82
75-82
ROMAN AND GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Lexical and semantic features of multicomponent terms in physics (on the basis of English-language scientific publications devoted to dark matter)
Abstract
Modern research sets a new paradigm for the linguistic description of terms as units of special nomination. The emphasis is on the study of dynamic processes covering terminological systems of different subject areas, identifying qualitative changes in the ways of representing domain-specific knowledge. The current paper seeks to identify some specific features of the terminological lexicon of Physics within the framework of an actively developing area of physical research related to the problem of dark matter. The relative novelty of this area, its interdisciplinary and rapidly developing nature result in the complication of its conceptual structure, give rise to certain changes in the formal and semantic representation of special concepts. The focus of this study is on the analytical units of special nomination – multicomponent terms notable for specific combinatorics and semantics of individual components. The study is aimed to identify the lexical and semantic features of this type of terms, determined by linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The collection of lexical material for analysis was carried out not on the basis of dictionaries, as is traditionally the case, but on the basis of English-language publications devoted to dark matter search from highranking scientific journals for 2014 to 2024 years. While randomly selecting the items for analysis the following features of the terminological combinations were taken into account: the ways of their representation in scientific texts (variability of form), the semantic specifics of their individual components. The sample of terms comprises 223 units. The research is based on the method of linguistic description, represented by such techniques as observation and generalization, systematization, quantitative counting, component and semantic analysis. On the basis of the data provided by the study it appeared possible to identify some features of multicomponent terms of the “dark matter” thematic sphere: variability of form of the same concepts represented within the context of one article and in other publications; hybridization of form (combination of verbal components with abbreviations and special symbols); complication of the semantic capacity of terminological combinations due to eponymous and metaphorical components; susceptibility to such semantic processes as synonymy and antonymy. The practical and theoretical significance of the study may consist in the possibility of using theresults obtained to develop the theory of crosscultural scientific communication, to determine patterns for compiling specialized dictionaries and glossaries of physical terms, to design and deliver courses in language for specific purposes, and courses in specialized translation.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):83-92
83-92
METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MODERN PHILOLOGY
Calendar as a way to create an artificial language environment in teaching a foreign language
Abstract
The article, for the first time in linguodidactics, comprehends the methodology of using the calendar as a genre of printed materials with the aim of creating an artificial language environment when teaching a foreign language. The practical significance of the article lies in the description of ways to introduce different types of calendars into educational communication in foreign language class. The creation of an artificial language environment in classes on Russian as a foreign language is a necessary condition for compensating for the lack of communication in the foreign language being studied in the absence of a natural language environment. In addition to the methods and techniques for organizing an artificial language environment already discovered by methods of teaching foreign languages, we propose to use the calendar genre. The practice of modern domestic didactics shows the active use of interactive calendars in teaching Russian as a foreign language, but the methodology for its use has not previously been comprehended. A review of accumulated experience and analysis showed the high activity of the calendar genre as a means of organizing an artificial language environment. We conducted an experiment on introducing a medical interactive calendar into teaching Russian as a foreign language to medical university students (general language proficiency level A2). The results of the experiment give grounds to assert that the thematic calendar as a teaching tool helps to implement many tasks: introduce elements of subject teaching in classes in Russian as a foreign language (general profile), update “passive” vocabulary and bring it into students’ speech; both paper and interactive versions of the calendar have high potential in organizing an artificial language environment: students contact the calendar on a daily basis, accessing up-to-date information about the current day of the week/month/year; the use of a calendar in classes on Russian as a foreign language also contributes to the development of cross-cultural communication skills, providing students with reasons to establish contact in the form of congratulations on a particular holiday to teachers and foreign-speaking friends.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):93-103
93-103
Foreign postgraduates` mental actions` training in Russian for special purposes course
Abstract
Foreign postgraduates, having entered the Lomonosov MSU philological faculty, encounter not only the General Literary Russian but also Russian for Special Purposes “Philology. Linguistics. Literature Studies”. As far as most of them have had vast experience in using the General Literary Russian, Russian for Special Purposes has been put into the limelight. And this course includes not only broadening the Subject Knowledge but also training the concrete mental actions, necessary for the postgraduates being the researchers. Above mentioned Special Course involves new Simple Sentence classification, lacking so far in Russian for Foreigners (RFF) textbooks and manuals. This classification, based on the statement type, has thus got the logical foundation. This way 7 senses relevant for the scientific speech style and being expressed exclusively via Simple Sentence Structures, have been revealed. And each of them corresponds to the concrete scientific work stage. The article deals with such elements of the scientific research as: a) confirmation of the object existence insome sphere; b) object nomination; c) revealing the object features and defining the differential feature; d) object qualification; e) object internal structure defining; f) classification of the objects, being found; g) constructing the objects` hierarchy. Language means (lexical and Syntax), necessary for their description, are being analyzed. Investigation results. 10 main mental actions, necessary for the foreign postgraduate during his working out the thesis are brought to light, and the training tasks` typology for accomplishing these actions is attached to them. The list of logical-semantic criteria actual for choosing the Simple Sentence Verbal Predicate is also presented. Theoretical Significance. New classification of the Russian Simple Sentence on the logical base is presented and its correlation with the Mental Actions is stated. That`s why this article addressee is wide: different types of Russian Language investigators. Practical Significance. Article gives the opportunity for using its materials in the practical RFF Course for Special Purposes not only for the Philological Cluster.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):104-111
104-111
Teaching normative French pronunciation as an important component of mastering oral speech skills
Abstract
The article is devoted to the role of pronunciation in teaching French. Attention is focused on prosodic factors that play an important role in the process of understanding a statement. Decoding of verbal communication takes place at the intellectual, linguistic, emotional and relational levels. The interlocutors perceive not only individual words, but also the tone of the utterance. Intonationally transmitted information allows you to understand the deep meaning of the utterance and its components. The purpose of the study is to determine the place of the phonetic component in the methodology of teaching a foreign language. The following research methods are used in the work: analysis of pedagogical, methodological, linguistic literature and the work experience of Russian and foreign phonetists; the method of scientific description; synthesis and generalization of their own practice of teaching French at the university. Many modern researchers in the field of foreign language teaching methods are supporters of communicative learning, leading to a new perception of the role of pronunciation, and awareness of the importance of intonation parameters of speech.The effectiveness of teaching the French language is increased with the use of special exercises for practicing prosodic phenomena, in which the phonosemantic approach appeals to sound matter and contributes to the formation of foreign language pronunciation skills. The result is the development of exercises based on the analysis of traditional and modern didactic principles. It is proposed to practice pronunciation skills in order to correct oral speech according to the following parameters: intonation and rhythm, intensity of articulation, phonetic environment. The effectiveness of training at the segment level increases with the use of exercises based on the principle of “from simple to complex”. The suprasegmental level, which implies normative stress, correct melody, rhythm, and pauses, also plays a significant role in mastering the articulation base of the language being studied. Only the complex perception of the above phonetic phenomena leads to the assimilation of the articulatory base of a foreign language. Thus, students need to master phonetic and phonological skills, since their insufficient formation will have negative consequences for the entire language learning process.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):112-122
112-122
RUSSIAN AND WORLD LITERATURE
N. Gogol’s story “The Overcoat” in the receptive consciousness of the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. Article 2
Abstract
The role and place of Gogol’s heritage in the literary process at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries are one of the pressing issues in modern Gogol studies. The works of modern authors are introduced into the scientific field, which make it possible to identify the mechanisms of dialogue, appropriation and development of the Gogol tradition. And this determines the research interest in this issue. The purpose of the study is to identify and consider the semantics and function of the image of a little man, genetically dating back to the image of Gogol’s Bashmachkin, and the accompanying plot elements in the works of writers at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries. The novelty of the research is ensured, firstly, by the analysis of artistic material that has not previously been introduced into scientific circulation, and secondly, the semantics and function of the “overcoat text” in the artistic structure of specific works of the literary era of the 20th–21st centuries are revealed. The works of modern authors were used as material: the stories by E. Chizhova “Nyutochkin’s House” (2008) and E. Dolgopiat “The Victim” (2015), M. Bogayev’s play “Bashmachkin” (2003). The selected works belong to different aesthetic and genre forms and the point of convergence between them is their dialogical reinterpretation of the narrative elements of the story’s artistic system based on mystical and religious traditions. The works actualize interest in Gogol’s narrative principles of the novel, built on the harmonious “translation” of the ethical (the value system of religious-teacher culture) into the aesthetic. In E. Chizhova’s story “Nyutochkin’s House” the novella “The overcoat” is understood as a metaphor for the St. Petersburg text. The plot of the protagonist in its semantic two-layeredness, socio-historical and biblical-mythological, appears as an eternal St. Petersburg plot, which is a part of the general mythological semiosphere of the St. Petersburg text. In O. Bogayev’s play, the reception of the fantastic finale of the novel “The overcoat” is rewritten using elements of the poetics of the theater of the absurd and it is focused on the problem of the moral choice of the hero, who assumes the role of the initiator of the Last Judgment. In the story by E. Dolgopyat, the reception of the plot episodes of the story “meeting with a significant person” and “punitive fantastic ending” actualizes and transforms the understanding of the theme of the social world and the social individual, which do not correspond to the ethical ideal.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):123-132
123-132
(Neo)mythologization of the image of the house-hotel in Lena Eltang’s novel “Stone Maples”
Abstract
The article contains the results of the study of the semantics of the central spatial image of the house-hotel in Lena Eltang’s novel “Stone Maples” and the manifestation of the poetics of neomodernism in the methods of mythologization of the image of the house. The house-hotel “Stone Maples” is not only the space of the plot action, but also a “character” of the diaries/book of the central heroine, an image-myth in her consciousness. “Maples” are the place of death of Sasha’s parents, they connect the semantics of life and death not as in an idyll (natural change of generations), but in accordance with archaic ideas about death as a stage of the life cycle. This mythological semantics is manifested through different semiotic codes – vegetative and creative: burial in the ground and digging up of the herbal diary is likened to the death and resurrection of grain, birth. In addition, the image of the “Stone Maples” supports a complex of allusions to a fairy tale, is associated with an enchanted kingdom, a place to test the abilities of a potential groom to rescue a bride from trouble, to resurrect her from sleep-death. Finally, the story of the appearance of this home in the Sonli family is important. The house was bought with money bequeathed to Sasha’s mother by a secret selfless lover and received after his death, but it was turned into a hotel, combining the functions of a family estate and an inn. Through the image of a house-hotel, Eltang builds a personal myth about the world and man in it. This myth emphasizes the “absoluteness”, the ideality of the House, but it is an accidental gift and a temporary earthly refuge for man. The house does not guarantee the stability of existence. But it is the awareness of oneself as a “guest”, “innkeeper” that contributes to the emergence and implementation of a creative intention aimed at countering the disintegration of matter, the destruction of connections. Mythologism in the novel is combined with psychologism, archaic semantics in the poetics of the novel’s space is connected with the author’s myth about the ‘house-hotel’.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):133-142
133-142
Harlequinade grotesque in Anglo-Saxon prose about the picaras
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the harlequinade grotesque in works whose main characters are Anglo-Saxon picaras – Roxana from the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe (“Roxana”, 1724) and Truman Capote’s character Ottilie from “The House of Flowers” (1950). The relevance of the study is due to the recent increased interest of literary scholars in the works of Defoe and Capote, as well as the stable appeal of foreign literary scholars to the interpretation of literary prose through the lens of the aesthetics of commedia dell’arte. For the first time, a comparison is made of the two picaras with their “progenitor” – Columbine from сommedia dell’arte, and parallels are revealed between the plot collisions in the prose of Defoe and Capote with the commedia and harlequinade plots. The typological similarity of Roxana and Ottilie with Columbine, as well as Royal Bonaparte and Roxanne’s husband with Harlequin is established. Allusions to mythological and theatrical plots in “Roxana” are identified, allowing us to talk about references in the text to the tradition of English pantomime, which synthesized mythology and harlequinade. Roxana is like the eternally young and beautiful Aphrodite, and her lovers – the brewer, the jeweler, the prince and the merchant – are endowed with the traits of Dionysus, Hephaestus, Adonis and Hermes, respectively. In “The House of Flowers” there are allusions to the Italian fairy tale “Prunella” and the commedia play by L. Houseman and H. G. Barker “Prunella, or Love in a Dutch Garden” (1906). In Ottilie’s features one can discern the Italian beauty Prunella, who defeated her evil witch mother-in-law, and Columbine with her “flower” name (a columbine is an aquilegia), and the image of Royal Bonaparte refers us to the handsome Bensiabel from “Prunella” and Harlequin. The terrible and the farcical are intertwined in the fate of Ottilie, which, as in the case of Roxanne, allows us to talk about the presence of harlequinade grotesque in the works of Defoe and Capote. The author of the article highlights such functions of this artistic technique as unfolding the metaphor of the world as theater and building a dialogue with the literary and theatrical traditions of the past.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):143-151
143-151
The plot-forming motive of fault as the basis for the “Anna Karenina’s” code in O. Pamuk’s novel “Museum of Innocence”
Abstract
The usage of literary code is one of the basic techniques in creating fiction. Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk in interviews and public speeches has repeatedly pointed out that in the process of working, including during the creation of the novel “Museum of Innocence”, he was in dialogue with the oeuvre of L. N. Tolstoy. Calling the Russian classic “a model of a historical writer”, Pamuk uses artistic techniques inherent in Tolstoy’s prose in his work on a novel about Istanbul life in the mid-1975’s. In the course of a comparative analysis, the interaction of the creative principles of the Turkish writer with the artistic system of the Russian novelist was examined and it was revealed that this connection is of a systemic nature. As the starting point of coding, the authors of the article identified the motive of guilt, which is key for the problematic organization of Pamuk’s work, as Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. Particular attention in the research is paid to the nature of the implementation of the motive of fault in epigraphs to novels, where its plot-forming role is already planned. Next, several aspects of the functioning of the motive of fault in the works in question are revealed: public condemnation, denial of their fault and a desire to shift it to another, self-judgment. Based on the value guidelines shown in the code, Pamuk creates in the “Museum of Innocence” a conflict between the characters’ own fault and the predestination of their actions. In the course of the research, it becomes obvious that the historical conditioning of the fate of the characters in Tolstoy’s novel as understood by Pamuk is transformed into a plot model. As a result, coding as a technique does not just program various levels of the artistic organization of Pamuk’s novel, but determines the logic of the development of the plot and prejudges its ending. The plot-forming motive of guilt in the “Museum of Innocence” under the influence of the Tolstoy code used by the postmodern author develops according to a specific script, going beyond the conditioning of the cultural and historical situation in which the novel takes place.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):152-162
152-162
JUBILEE
To the anniversary of Professor Olga B. Kafanova
Abstract
The article is devoted to the professional pedagogical and scientific activity of Doctor of Philology, Professor Olga Bodovna Kafanova. The article presents the main scientific directions of her work. Among them are comparative studies, Russian-French literary connections, George Sand, gender studies. The article gives an overview of her research on Russian and foreign literature and translation studies, outlines her professional contribution to the development of international cooperation in the field of science and education.
Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6):163-167
163-167