Literary criticism

The article is devoted to an episode from the creative history of AA's memoirs. Feta, published and commented on a draft outline of the original plan of Fetov's memories. The study is based on handwritten sources, first introduced into scientific circulation.

FRENCH LITERATURE, Romanticism, SHATOBRIAN, memoirs, autobiography, THEME OF DEATH

The early period of American literature begins with exciting descriptions of the New World of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and others. The first work written in America is Captain John Smith's fascinating report on the first years of life in the colony in Virginia and his relations with the aborigines. These works allow us to identify the most important cultural forces that formed the American literary tradition. For this reason they are the most comprehensive and reliable sources for penetrating the depths of American literature.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the image of the city in the "Prague" collection of the outstanding German-speaking poet R.M. Rilke "Victims of Laram". The analysis of individual methods of creating an image (cyclization, invocation of Roman mythology, personification, etc.) and analysis of its individual components make it possible to draw a conclusion about the complex multilevel structure of the image of Prague, its leading role in composition and the image structure of the entire collection.

The article is devoted to the study of E. Spencer's poem "The Queen of the Fae", a heroic chivalric poem of the English Revival epoch of the 16th century. The poem "The Queen of the Fairies" combines various elements, the most important of which are the poetic fantasy and imagination of the author. The world of Queen Fairies is fantastic. This is the world of knights of beautiful ladies, fantastic creatures, folkloric characters, monsters, etc. In Spencer's poem, the leading place belongs to love, fantasy and Nature. Spencer was a great poet, and we can learn a lot from his works.

The article is devoted to one of the most outstanding poets of France in the second half of the 19th century. Paul Verlaine, who began his career in the vein of romanticism and completed it with the discovery of a new literary and aesthetic direction. The authors trace the main stages of this evolution, related to the creation of Verlaine's central poetry collections (from "Saturnic verses" to "Songs without Words"). Specific features of impressionism as a new style in literature are characterized.

The article deals with the problems of establishing boundaries between the genres of memoir and autobiographical prose, their genealogy and dominant attributes are suggested. The specific character of the memoir and autobiographical styles is analyzed.

In the article, based on the analysis of the motives of "water", "electricity" and "mirror," the spatial-temporal structure of Nabokov's novel "Hell, or Joy of Passion" is considered. The key element of the text is also the intertextual links with L. Carroll's fairy tale "Alice in the Looking-Glass" and M. Proust's novel "Towards Svan", indicating a way of interpreting the novel world, its space-time structure and ontological status.

In the article images of revolutionary Russia in the early novels of the German-speaking writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) "Flight without end" (1927) and "The Mute Prophet" (1929) are analyzed. The Russian revolution is depicted in these texts as a monstrous enterprise, carried out by random people from personal motives. It does not lead to the creation of a state and a man of a new type and therefore it seems senseless bloodshed.

The article gives an overview of six books of British critics (George Watson, JD Taylor, Andrzej Gashiorek, Patricia Vaugh, Malcolm Bradbury, Alan Sinfield) published in the 1990s. and reflecting, each in its own way, the direction of postwar British literature. The approaches used by critics are divided into two categories: traditional academic literary studies and cultural studies; the article proposes a methodological evaluation of each category.