The article aims to direct attention of the Russian readers to the richness of Spenser’s allegorical palette in his poem “The Faerie Queene.” The words
“allegory” and “symbol” are employed here in their modern sense, wi...
This essay analyzes portraits in several editions of The Fiery Angel published during
Bryusov’s lifetime and claims that the portrait was as a universal point of convergence for
verbal and visual arts. The dialogue bet...
The poetics of Octavio Paz’s book The Violent Season (1958) is in great part defined
by its autobiographical canvas: the sequence of the 9 poems that compose the lyrical
series corresponds chronologically and geographi...
The articles proposes a new interpretation of the Homeric myth of
the gates of horn and ivory that occurs in Book 19 of the Odyssey. It frst argues
that horn (the material of the southern gate in neoplatonic commentari...
The article examines one of the most important problems of Gorky’s
work — a problem of humanism. It relates the history of creation of Gorky’s essay
“A. A. Blok” (1923) to the author’s reflections about deformation of t...
EDMUND SPENSER’S “THE FAERIE QUEEN” AS “CONTINUED ALLEGORY”: FROM EMBLEMATIC AND CONCEITED WRITING TO SYMBOLICAL
The article aims to direct attention of the Russian readers to the richness of Spenser’s allegorical palette in his poem “The Faerie Queene.” The words “allegory” and “symbol” are employed here in their modern sense, wi...
PORTRAIT IN LITERATURE AND GRAPHIC ART: THE CASE OF THE FIERY ANGEL
This essay analyzes portraits in several editions of The Fiery Angel published during Bryusov’s lifetime and claims that the portrait was as a universal point of convergence for verbal and visual arts. The dialogue bet...
Poetics of Octavio Paz’s The Violent Season
The poetics of Octavio Paz’s book The Violent Season (1958) is in great part defined by its autobiographical canvas: the sequence of the 9 poems that compose the lyrical series corresponds chronologically and geographi...
THE GATES OF HORN AND IVORY: A GEOGRAPHICAL MYTH
The articles proposes a new interpretation of the Homeric myth of the gates of horn and ivory that occurs in Book 19 of the Odyssey. It frst argues that horn (the material of the southern gate in neoplatonic commentari...
THE PROBLEM OF HUMANISM IN M. GORKY’S ESSAY “A. A. BLOK”
The article examines one of the most important problems of Gorky’s work — a problem of humanism. It relates the history of creation of Gorky’s essay “A. A. Blok” (1923) to the author’s reflections about deformation of t...