Volume 8, Nº 8 (2020)

The article discusses intertextual strategies used by the author S. Dovlatov in the story "The Branch". The study is focused on revealing the intertextual dialogical connections in the work of the writer. The study goal is to demonstrate how the mechanism of self-citation works in the literary work. The analysis shows that autointertext is implemented in the story through the characters of the subplot.

The article analyses the latest approaches to the study of "The Tale of the Igor's Campaign" in the comparatively historical perspective. The genre and textual parallels of "The Tale…" with biblical texts, Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Georgian epic poetry are considered. Particular attention is paid to the attempts on semantic analysis of some obscure fragments of the work in recent historiography.

The article presents a semantic classification of adjectives describing human in Russian dialects of Mordovia. The individual subgroups of the adjectives are defined. The common features of the dialect and Russian literary items of the lexical-semantic group are revealed.

The article presents an analysis of phraseological units of the lexical-semantic group of meals and food products used in the Russian dialects of the Republic of Mordovia. The semantic, grammatical, structural features of the units and their emotionally expressive capabilities are studied.

The abstract discusses the poetical features of the book of poems "West-East Wind" by E. Schwartz. The study shows that the main plot of this book is based on the motive of travel. The poet intertwines real geographical routes with imaginary ones. Numerous toponyms and hydronyms in combination with significant cultural attributes of historical epochs make it possible to demonstrate the wandering of a lonely soul around the world and emphasize the simultaneous cyclicality and infinity of the life path.