The essence of autobiography as a genre is examined. And critical studies on autobiography, particularly by Philippe Lejeune and feminist school are reviewed. The author reveals the problem of defining the genre of ...

The article «The question of continuation stages of concrete poetry from antiquity to the 20th century» deals with the main problems and forms of experimental non-conventional poetry. The article focuses on the beginning ...

In postmodernism genre cannons seem to be entirely rejected. But they still allow comparing postmodernist eclectic and non-conventional texts with the traditional genre forms and to state the non-genre nature of the former. ...

The author systematizes existing opinions on such an ambiguous literary phenomenon as lyrical prose in order to define its theoretical essence and place among literary genres. The stages of the lyrical prose development ...

Sharing the ideas of close relations between Russian and Ukrainian postmodern literatures, which stipulate for the possibility to be viewed as the specific West Slavonic variant of postmodernism, the author investigates ...

Such notions as «tragedy», «tragic», «destiny» in the European aesthetic thought based on the antique mythology are considered in the article. Also the views of European thinkers on the problems of «tragic» as aesthetic ...

The article deals with the phenomenon of transgression of narration in the novel. Taking the novel «The Dogs and the Wolves» by Irène Nemirovsky we analyze the «théâtralisation» of the prose narrative and its features. The ...

In this article the stories «The Birthmark» by Tanya Maliarchuk and «The Sin» by Tadeusz Rózewicz are studied from the perspective of «centre as phobia». The centre causes fear; firstly, because it (fear) is alone, it ...