Жанрова специфіка віршованого листа

Статтю присвячено дослідженню одного із жанрово-тематичних різновидів адресованої лірики – віршо-ваного листа. На матеріалі поетичних текстів української адресованої лірики ХІХ–ХХ ст. досліджується жанрова специфіка віршованого листа, виокремлюються його генологічні художні модифікації.This article deals with research of one of the genre-thematic variety of addressed lyrics – poetic letter. Addressed lyrics is considered as supergenre formation which includes lyric works with accented dialogic aim oriented on communication with intratextual addressee (poetic letter, poetic epistle, dedication). The genre specifics of the poetic letter is investigated and its two genological artistic modifications are defined on the material of poetic texts of Ukrainian addressed lyrics of XIX – ХХ centuries: letter of informative type and letter of reflective type. Informative-communicative structure, genre reflections including lyric title, composition and thematic peculiarities of the certain artistic modifications of a poetic letter, their sender and addressee are characterized

Трансформація готичної літературної традиції в сучасному романі США

У статті простежуються основні тенденції розвитку готичної традиції в літературі США, визначаються константи поетики готичного роману: готичний хронотоп (замковий), лейтмотиви родинного прокляття, розпаду родинних зв’язків, утечі, переслідування, руйнування. Обґрунтовується поява «неоготичного» наративу й досліджуються його основні риси на прикладі аналізу творчості американської письменниці Джойс Керол Оутс.The article deals with the main tendencies in the development of gothic literary tradition in the USA. The author researches the literary and art criticism on this phenomenon and determines the significant role of the gothic tradition in the process of forming the national American literature, marks out the principle elements of preromantic and romantic poetics of the gothic novel which characterize the creative works of American writers, such as chronotop, family curse, pursuit, escape, counteracts, metaimages of labyrinth, vaults, crypts, etc. The gothic tradition is determined as established historic and literary phenomenon created at the turn of the XVIIIthXIXth centuries. The phenomenon of American «neogothic» is described and the principle features of the «new gothic», «neogothic» or «postgothic fiction» established at the turn of the XXthXXIst centuries are given: the creative rethinking and parody of genre dominants, stereotypes and clichés of the gothic literature, different types of intertexual ties with classical genre models, complexity of space and time structures and narrative models, emphasis on the critical psychological situations of a man

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Arthur Lourié and his conception of revolution

Arthur Lourié’s conception of revolution (political as well as cultural) is explored through his writings, with particular emphasis on its evolution from his Russian period to his Parisian and American exiles. Analyzing Lourié’s Eurasianist views specifically I argue that through his association with Eurasianism and his engagement with Neoclassicism Lourié did not abandon his revolutionary disposition; the means through which his revolutionism was pursued as well as the ideals that shaped it were merely redefined, while remaining firmly grounded in the Silver Age

Biofouling of crypts of historical and architectural interest at la Plata Cemetery (Argentina)

Cemeteries are part of the cultural heritage of urban communities, containing funerary crypts and monuments of historical and architectural interest. Efforts aimed at the conservation of these structures must target not only the abiotic stresses that cause their destruction, such as light and humidity, but also biofouling by biotic agents. The purpose of this study was to assess the development of biofouling of several historically and architecturally valuable crypts at La Plata Cemetery (Argentina). Samples obtained from the biofilms, lichens, and fungal colonies that had developed on the marble surfaces and cement mortar of these crypts were analyzed by conventional microbiological techniques and by scanning electron microscopy. The lichens were identified as Caloplaca austrocitrina, Lecanora albescens, Xanthoparmelia farinosa and Xanthoria candelaria, the fungi as Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp., Fusarium sp., Candida sp. and Rhodotorula sp., and the bacteria as Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. The mechanisms by which these microorganisms cause the aesthetic and biochemical deterioration of the crypts are discussed

Multimodal discourse strategies of factuality and subjectivity in educational digital storytelling

As new technologies continue to emerge, students and lecturers are provided with new educational tools. One such tool, which is increasingly used in higher education, is digital storytelling, i.e. multi-media digital narratives. Despite the increasing attention that education and media scholars have paid to digital storytelling, there is scant research examining digital narratives from a discourse-analytic perspective.This paper addresses this gap in the literature and, in line with the belief that individuals make meaning through a range of semiotic devices, including, among others, language, sound, graphics and text, it aims to examine discourse strategies of factuality and subjectivity in historical-cultural digital narratives and their multimodal realisations (Kress & Van Leeuwen 2001; Patrona 2005). To carry out this study a corpus of 16 digital stories was compiled and analysed from a multidisciplinary framework which draws from studies on digital storytelling, computer-mediated communication, media studies, and multimodal discourse analysis. Results show that students/digital story tellers resort to a number of varied multimodal discursive strategies which are constitutive of their identity as capable students in an educational setting

Rewriting Modernity

This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinctionbetween topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink space, time,and modernity outside the limits of the “squared horizon,” where the“squared horizon” is viewed as a spatial and textual metaphor for framing perspectives on the past, present, and future. The analysis deconstructs the topography of the “squared horizon” as a relationality in an unfolding continuum, where spaces exist ontologically and where the immaterial forces of the dromospheric and the atmospheric generate a relational and historical connectedness

Estrategias discursivas multimodales, factuales y subjetivas en el relato digital educativo

As new technologies continue to emerge, students and lecturers are provided with new educational tools. One such tool, which is increasingly used in higher education, is digital storytelling, i.e. multi-media digital narratives. Despite the increasing attention that education and media scholars have paid to digital storytelling, there is scant research examining digital narratives from a discourseanalytic perspective. This paper addresses this gap in the literature and, in line with the belief that individuals make meaning through a range of semiotic devices, including, among others, language, sound, graphics and text, it aims to examine discourse strategies of factuality and subjectivity in historical-cultural digital narratives and their multimodal realisations. To carry out this study a corpus of 16 digital stories was compiled and analysed from a multidisciplinary framework which draws from studies on digital storytelling, computer-mediated communication, media studies, and multimodal discourse analysis. Results show that students/digital story tellers resort to a number of varied multimodal discursive strategies which are constitutive of their identity as capable students in an educational setting.Las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen a estudiantes y profesores nuevas herramientas educativas. Entre éstas destaca el relato digital, una herramienta que se emplea cada vez más en educación superior. Pese a la gran atención que el relato digital ha recibido por parte de expertos en educación y en medios, existen escasos estudios de relatos digitales desde la perspectiva del análisis del discurso. Este trabajo se hace eco de esta escasez y, partiendo de la premisa de que los individuos construimos el significado a través de variados medios semióticos que incluyen, entre otros, lenguaje, sonido, gráficos y textos, examina las estrategias discursivas, factuales y subjetivas, en narrativas histórico-culturales y su realización multimodal. Para desarrollar este estudio se recogió un corpus de 16 relatos digitales que se analizó desde un enfoque multidisciplinar que se apoya en estudios previos de relato digital, de comunicación por ordenador, estudios de medios de comunicación y análisis del discurso multimodal. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes/narradores digitales recurren a una gran variedad de estrategias discursivas multimodales que contribuyen a formar su identidad de estudiantes capaces en el entorno educativo