This article analyzes the early frontier in the Caucasus. In this paper we prove the legality of the use of the concept of "early frontier" for the period of the Russian-Caucasian history. The author, basing on the classic criteria of frontier offered by Turner F.J., compares the main characteristics of early American and Caucasian frontier. During the analysis I allocate the general and specific elements of intercultural communication of this period, which forms the basic mechanisms of frontier community. The article shows how the factor of "intermediate" defines heterotopic, unstable, reversible, transgressionnature of the basic processes and intercultural communication occurring during early frontier. The methodology of this study can be used to analyze different types and stages of the frontier, both historical and contemporary
The article analyzes Charles W. Chesnutt’s novel “The House Behind the Cedars” regarding the writer’s new approach to Afro-American cultural identity. It seeks to determine the problems of self-identity of black Americans in the novel which are related to the modern epoch of multiculturalism
The specialties of character creating in oeuvre of L.S.Petrushevskaya are examined in the article from the position of archetypal concept of K.G.Jung. There is also an identified connection of female characters of the writer with their mythological foretype – Mother-Goddess in aspect of “Mother-Earth”
The article analyzes and comments the implied mythological analogies of the main character’s in P. Zuskin’s novel “Perfume”. It seeks to determine the similarity of his image with the bible and ancient Greek characters, proving its trustworthiness, although it creates ambiguity of the interpretation of the text
The article considers the sources of modern spiritual poetry on the example of one key motive - charity and compassion. In medieval tradition (Ioan Zlatoust) we find accentuation of moral aspects; in modern spiritual poetry (Veniamin Blazeniy) the emotion of love to the whole world predominates
In this article we are talking about V. Pelevin and his novels such as "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," "Empire V", "T" and their ideological and artistic structure. The article is structured. The plot, the language of prose, genre are described in detail. We have also discussed the most important ideological and artistic landmarks
The article considers the song folk art as a reflection of national culture and mentality. The relationship between the nature of ethnic culture, mentality and language environment of the ethnic group is analyzed
This article is dedicated to the problem of comparison of Russian and English root antonyms, some reasons of their likeness and differences and the most productive word models are given
The cognitive structure of the copular verbs is discussed. The cognitive structure is presented by connection of relative and nominative conceptual content. The main process of the copularity formation is desemantization, which represents, on a cognitive level, as the substitution of nominative concept by existence concept. This cognitive procedure results the deactualization of lexical semantics of the verb in certain syntax models and certain discourse situations
The article deals with the definition of author’s translation and the range of problems connected with the notion. We also analyze the reasons that forced the writers to be self-translated