The influence of Illarion’s personality on his literary style is revealed in the article. The problem of temporal and spatial peculiarities of the «Sermon on Law and Grace» depending on the author’s perception of the world ...

«Olga’s Hagiography» is an encoded text, at the heart of which there are belles situations of foreign character qualified to create antithetic images of ingenious governess and short-sighted ancient people. The main method ...

The article focuses on the stages of picaresque genre development in Spanish literature considering «Lazarillo from Tormes» as an example of classical picaresque novel with its specific genre features, structure, composition, ...

The investigation of the old Ukrainian palyndromous poetry of the XVII−XVIII centuries in its projection onto Ukrainian literature of the XX century (e.g. futurism) and its ancient origins was performed in the given work.

Basing on Dmitriy Likhachov’s research we hypothesize the existence of professional secular poetry in ancient Russian literature. Comparing the role of scalds in Scandinavian society and the functions of «The Tale of Igor’s ...

The article deals with the legends by -etro Mohyla in general narrative theory context.