The short story is dedicated to the problems of art, unhappy marriage and unrealized ambitions presented with the help of multilevel oppositions and contrasts, symbolic details and anthroponyms. Living her life as an ...

The peculiarities of the artistic interpretation of the motives of life’s fleetingness in Ezra Pound’s lyrics are dealt with in the article. The conceptions and the principles of these motives are considered. Their aesthetic ...

The article reveals the origin of Bloomsday and James Joyce’s becoming a writer. The tragedy of Ireland in «Ulysses» shows not only the despair of its nation, but also the indifference to the development of its culture and ...

The research deals with an analysis of Emily Dickinson’s poetry from the dialogue theory perspective. The communicative space of E. Dickinson’s verse is represented by her religious, puritanic outlook. Besides, this space ...

The author of the article focuses on the problem of Apocalypse in the novels «Generation X», «Girlfriend in a Coma» and «Life After God» by a Canadian writer Douglas Coupland. The author seeks to examine the social nature ...

The typical features of the literary gospel as a genre are stated. The peculiarities of the transformation which the Gospel myth undergoes in the novel of Christopher Moore are analyzed. Special attention is focused on the ...

Gillian Bradshow and Marion Zimmer Bradley form a special narrative of feminine voice by reconstructing and rebuilding slightly delineated women toposes of tradinional Arthurian story. Affiliation with some space is an ...

The article deals with some aspects of the USA national mythology and its influence on Paul Auster’s works. An attempt is made to ascertain functional mission of national myths and symbols in the novel «Oracle Night» in ...