Literary criticism
Reference:
Rakhmanikhalilelakhi Z.
Stalin and His Influence on Artistic Conflict in the Novella «Belshazzar's feasts» by F. Iskander
// Litera.
2024. ¹ 10.
P. 1-12.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2024.10.69028 EDN: SARNNG URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=69028
Abstract:
The subject of the article is a profound analysis of Stalin's influence on the artistic conflict presented in the novella "Belshazzar's feasts" by F. Iskander. The main objective of the research is to identify how the political figure of Stalin shapes and develops the artistic conflict in Iskander's work. The obtained results not only reveal the significant impact of Stalin on the characters and events in the examined piece but also highlight key directions of the artistic conflict, emphasizing its dynamics within the context of historical heritage. Stalin plays a significant role in shaping the plot lines and characters, and his influence extends to all aspects of the work. The obtained results cover a broad area of literary studies, providing valuable material for criticism.Additionally, this article may prove beneficial to authors, graduate students, and scholars deepening their understanding of the literary process. The research methodology encompasses a literary-critical approach, structural analysis, psychological aspects, semiotics, and the study of symbolism. This investigative work not only reveals Stalin's influence on the artistic conflict in the novella "Belshazzar's feasts" but also opens a new level of understanding of this impact. The analysis confirms that Stalin is not merely a presence in the work but genuinely acts as a significant catalyst, shaping and stimulating the development of the artistic conflict. This contribution makes a meaningful impact on literary studies, providing a profound understanding of the influence of historical figures on the creative process. Unveiling how political figures affect characters, plot, and the overall atmosphere of a work enriches the methodological arsenal of literature researchers. This approach not only offers a fresh perspective on Iskander's creativity and its interaction with historical context but also enhances the overall comprehension of how political histories are reflected in artistic creations.
Keywords:
feast, semiotics, intertextuality, psychological analysis, artistic conflict, Belshazzar's feasts, power, Uncle Sandro, Fazil Iskander, Stalin
Literary criticism
Reference:
Kudryavtseva R.A.
The "Sernur text" in the lyrics by Zoya Dudina
// Litera.
2024. ¹ 10.
P. 13-30.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2024.10.71948 EDN: OXOASS URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=71948
Abstract:
This work is carried out within the framework of the current direction of modern philological science related to the study of local supertext (local text) in the national literatures of Russia. The subject of the research in the article is the "Sernur text" in the lyrics of the modern Mari poet Zoya Dudina, considered by us on the material of her poems included in the collection "Kuanyshym, kuemndal..." (Rejoiced, hugging a birch...) (2012). In this aspect, the lyrical works of this author are studied for the first time in the Mari literary science. The article identifies, describes and analyzes the main components of the "Sernur text" (images, motifs, artistic details, author's assessments and the ideological and conceptual component of individual lyrical texts and the collection as a whole), their place in the artistic structure of Zoya Dudina's lyrics. The methodology of the research consists of a historical-genetic and structural-semantic analysis of the author's lyrical texts, which allows us to identify and describe the structural and semantic levels of the "Sernur text", textual elements of the local subtext, revealing the author's concept of the world and man, the character of the lyrical heroine. The most important textual elements of the "Sernur text" in Zoya Dudina's lyrics are toponyms and anthroponyms and related spatial and character images – reconstructing/ transforming their primary etymological or real meanings, expressing one or another author's axiology. The main meaning of the "Sernur text" is summarized in the very title of the book (rural space, the land of ancestors, the Mari world), which carries the idea of the lyrical heroine's "merged" life with the Mari world and the world of nature. The structural and semantic levels of the "Sernur text" and textual elements of the local subtext (images and motifs, artistic details, documentary realities, framework components, etc.) reveal the author's concept of the world and man, imbued with respect for folk mythological culture and ancestral memory, their reflection in modernity, as well as the character of the lyrical heroine Zoya Dudina, marked by a genuine and grateful love for his native land.
Keywords:
poetic, the motif-shaped system, toponyms, local subtext, Sernur text, local text, Zoya Dudina, lyrics, modern Mari literature, the author's axiology
Communication
Reference:
Gotovtseva A.G.
Napoleon's Civil Code in the Political Discourse of the Alexander Era
// Litera.
2024. ¹ 10.
P. 31-39.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2024.10.72028 EDN: NJAOFM URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=72028
Abstract:
Napoleon's "Civil Code" is a fundamental work of European legal thought. M.M. Speransky, appointed by Emperor Alexander I to the Commission for Drafting Laws, of course, could not help but refer to this text; moreover, he actively used it when drafting his famous "Draft Civil Code", but revised many of its provisions when adapting it to the class-based Russian society. Nevertheless, the influence of the Code on Speransky's "Draft" was so noticeable that it caused sharp rejection in conservative circles. The main opponents of the Secretary of State were N.M. Karamzin and A.S. Shishkov, who criticized the "Draft". When writing this article, the main method was the method of discourse analysis. This method, the subject of which is traditionally defined as "speech immersed in life", made it possible to study the extralinguistic aspects of the texts of participants in the communicative field in political disputes around the legislative initiatives of M.M. Speransky in terms of their correlation with Napoleon's Civil Code. Also used were such methods as content analysis, biographical method, comparative-historical and contrastive. Despite all the similarities, the positions of Karamzin and Shishkov differed. If Shishkov categorically did not accept any changes to Russian statehood, defending the need to preserve its absolutist inviolability, then Karamzin, who admired Robespierre in his youth, then idolized Napoleon, openly declared his republicanism. The ambiguity of his position, which has been repeatedly noted by researchers, is fully explained by the phenomenon of the development of republican thought of that time, which is shown in the article. Speransky, responding to criticism of the "Project Code", stated that all such projects are similar, since they have Roman law as their source. But this was not important for his opponents, who used all available tools to discredit him.
Keywords:
the era of Alexander I, liberalism, conservatism, republicanism, A. S. Shishkov, N. M. Karamzin, M. M. Speransky, Napoleon's Civil Code, Law Drafting Commission, political discourse