This edition consists of two parts. The first part includes the monograph Ancient Japan: Culture and Text. In this study  Meshcheryakov made an attempt to present the main types of written forms of creativity in ancient Japan (history, poetry, prose, religious writings) as components of a single informational text flow. This is the first attempt of ...

The basic set of issues touched in the published articles is relates to the history of Russian literature of the XX century - in philosophical and aesthetic search of the "Silver Age", the literary process of the Russian diaspora in its correlation with the literature of the metropolis and the shelterling countries. ...

Статья описывает историю киносценария как литературного жанра. ...

Чтение классики – занятие не простое; с этой мыслью вряд ли кто-нибудь будет спорить. А вот с утверждением, что изучение ее в школе может стать почти увлекательным, согласится далеко не каждый. Однако авторы книги на этом настаивают и предлагают читателю вместе с ними, страница за страницей, прочитать произведения, вошедшие в школьную программу, обратить внимание на ...

This textbook is aimed to develop linguistic competence and professional skills of Spanish language students (level B1-B2). It helps students to get acquaintes with the sociocultural realities of Spain, to work with both adapted and non-adapted texts on topics covering four areas of society (economics, politics, social sphere and culture), enrich their vocabulary with basic lexical and phraseological units, and ...

The article considers the problem of lost silent films, which is especially relevant to the study of Russian cinema, since most early Russian films have not been preserved, and it is hardly possible to describe the film history of this period without them. It is necessary to reconstruct films that have been lost or have ...

This article investigates the role of the screenplay in early Russian cinema and the life and work of Aleksandr Voznesenskii, who is considered to be the first professional writer of screenplays in Russia. It is no coincidence that Voznesenskii, who had been a novelist, a poet, a playwright, a literary critic, a universal writer of ...

Книга рассказывает о первых кинотеатрах в Петербурге и дореволюционной России и о первых зрителях. ...

Collection of articles by the memory of E. G. Etkind ...

the book describes the structures of identity in the fictional and non-fictional texts.  The authors focus the attantion on the problems of translation. ...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the linguistic universality and variability of the concept of travel in the English and Russian languages. The linguistic method employs a four-step procedure including analysis of culturally “biased” dictionary entries of travel vocabulary in English and in Russian as well as a comparative analysis of lexical structures in English ...

Статья рассматривает кинодраматургическое наследие Л.Н. Андреева и его связь с дореволюционным кино. ...

В сборнике представлена преемственность трех поколений исследователей - социологов, политологов, начиная с 60-х годов XX столетия и заканчивая сегодняшним днем. Сборник предназначен для социологов, политологов, философов и всех, кто интересуется данными проблемами. ...

Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing ...

Essay in honor of Will Ryan. ...

This article is dedicated to the first Russian film journal, Sine-Fono, which was published from 1907 to 1918. Sine-Fono was a leading periodical for more than ten years and it played a crucial role in the pre-Revolutionary cinematic process. The journal Sine-Fono is interesting not only as a key fact of the history of early ...

Human nature’s complexity and contradictoriness, accentuating the enigmatic essence of the Russian mentality, receives a unique depiction in Dostoevsky’s works. Often we read about strange specimens, whose thoughts and actions would bear typical features of Russian culture. The article sets out to examine these features: in particular, duality and a combination of mutually excluding qualities. ...

In general, the evolution of Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School may be presented as follows. From the semiotics of text, it evolved into the semiotics of culture, and from that, into the semiotics of mental processes and the semiosphere. In conjunction with that, the center of attention shifted from the semiotics of space to the semiotics of ...

Although the Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), also known as Specific Language Impairment in children has been the focus of unceasing scientific attention for decades, the nature and mechanisms of this disorder remain unclear. Most importantly, we still cannot reliably identify children requiring urgent intervention among other ‘late talkers’ at an early age and understand the ...

In this work we are interested in the production of the protest culture in specific areas where data are updated by the creativity people protest. On a number of subjects related to Russian culture, author shows how the protest behavior serves a consequence of the physical closeness of the space, or, on the contrary, contains ...

The materials of the collection touch upon the problems of history, economics, culture, philology and politics of the countries of the Korean Peninsula. Designed for professionals interested in the problems of South and North Korea, students, graduate students and a wide range of readers. ...

В статье с опорой на речь Т. Манна «Германия и немцы» (1945) и роман «Доктор Фаустус» (1947) рассматриваются «немецкий характер» и образ Бетховена. В романе «Доктор Фаустус» образ Бетховена связан прежде всего с лекцией В. Кречмара об опусе 111, последней фортепианной сонате композитора. Однако внимание ав- торов сосредоточено не столько на позднем стиле Бетховена, блестяще ...

В настоящий сборник включены статьи международной научно-практической конференции "Россия и государства Корейского полуострова: становление отношений и перспективы взаимодействия". Представленные материалы раскрывают отсновные тенденции социально-экономического и политического развития отношений между Россией, РК и КНДР, а также специфику культурно-языковых контактов. Уникальный материал рассчитан на широкий круг специалистов по проблемам Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона, преподавателей и студентов востоковедческих направлений, а также будет ...

The article is dedicated to the peculiarities of the reception of Dostoevsky in Russian émigré literature. The work analyses the prose of Vladimir Varshavsky, one of the “younger” émigré writers. In the interwar period, Varshavsky was primarily interested in Dostoevsky as a writer who anticipated some psychological features of the “young émigré man”. Varshavsky develops ...