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RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
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ISSN (Print) 2312-9220 - ISSN (Online) 2312-9247
Published by Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

[22 journals]

А.P. Chekhov and D.S. Merezhkovsky: controversy about the mission of the
Russian intelligentsia
- Authors: Olga M. Kirillina
  Pages: 7 - 15
  Abstract: The author examines the dialogue of A.P. Chekhov and D.S. Merezhkovsky on the role of the intelligentsia in society. The study used comparative and cultural-historical methods. The analysis of the causes of the deep split among the educated part of society at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries is carried out and two fundamentally divergent vectors have been identified in solving the issue of the role of the intelligentsia in society. Based on a study of the dialogue between Chekhov and Merezhkovsky, which took place during personal communication, in correspondence and through critical articles, it was determined that in understanding the essence of intelligence (“intelligentnost”) as an internal sensation, the writers took opposite positions. An analysis of similar themes and motives in their work (the image of Italy, superman, Oedipus, ideas about beauty, about the healthy middle, attitude towards “idealists”) allows us to concretize their positions: Merezhkovsky preached the transformation of humanity into God-manhood through revolution, blood, Chekhov expressed longing for humanity. It is concluded that Chekhov, denouncing the “fathers”-idealists, called for serving people without being afraid of routine work, without idealizing the people, and Merezhkovsky supported the claims of the intelligentsia to the role of the true elite of society, resolute, rejec- ting the principles of traditional humanism and inspiring the masses.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-7-15
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Author's world modeling in the genre of “Yuletide story”
by Fyodor Sologub
- Authors: Elena Yu. Shestakova
  Pages: 16 - 26
  Abstract: The features of the artistic embodiment of the image of childhood in the genre of “Yuletide story” by the Russian writer of the late 19th - early 20th centuries Fyodor Sologub are revealed. The material for the research was the story “The Christmas Boy.” The purpose of the study is to identify the originality of the author’s world modeling in the genre of “Yuletide story” by Fyodor Sologub in comparison with the works of this genre in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky. The unique, original perception and interpretation of the theme of childhood by a symbolist writer is a current trend in modern literary criticism. The novelty of the work lies in the consideration of Sologubov’s story through the prism of world modeling. The results obtained during the study showed that the theme of purity, sinlessness of the child hero, his suffering and death due to fundamental incompatibility with the norms of earthly life bring F. Sologub’s story closer to the works of his literary predecessors. The general space-time universals, the theme of Christmas as the leading world-modeling category, and the theme of child death are preserved. F. Sologub concentrates the text space around the mystical and philosophical ideas of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, introducing into it the aesthetic principles of symbolism.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-16-26
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
The image of the heart in poetic and patristic synthesis
- Authors: Dmitriy M. Bychkov, Kseniya N. Gushchina
  Pages: 27 - 33
  Abstract: The religious, philosophical and poetic context of the functioning of the image of the heart in the discourse of Russian symbolist poets is analyzed. An attempt has been made to discover mythological and Christian (evangelical and patristic) roots in the genesis of “cardio- topy”. The authors of the study rely on a wide range of works by Russian theologians and philosophers. In addition, for a more complete interpretation of the image, the latest anatomical and philosophical concepts and distant contexts (Vedic and Quranic) are involved. The work uses a cognitive-discursive approach to the analysis and interpretation of the central image of “cardiotopy” - the heart. It is concluded that the poetic and patristic perception of the image of the heart reveals a paradoxical convergence of meanings: the traditional interpretation of the image as a symbol of the human soul, which experiences various emotions and experien- ces, and conveys deep thoughts and feelings of the subject, is interfaced in the poetic space of the text with speech-thinking and cognitive functions that communicate with the external and internal world, with the Creator (God), as well as a complex process of intuitive cognition, implemented by stimuli of various modalities (memory, speech thinking, perception).
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-27-33
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Semiotics of the “Samarkand text”
- Authors: Eleonora F. Shafranskaya, Gulchira T. Garipova, Yulia U. Matenova
  Pages: 34 - 45
  Abstract: The purpose of the research is to identify and study the differential features of the phenomenon of the “Samarkand text”, which confidently declares itself as one of the phenomena in a number of world local texts. The authors note that despite its geographical relationship with the Central Asian region, it is widely represented in world literature and culture in general, and has a polysemantic and functional representation. An attempt was made to identify obvious and non-obvious forms of his aesthetic models, as well as to systematize the principles of designing his world model, eidetic image, and urban locus. The authors studied texts from a number of epoch-making periods (from the 15th to the 21st century), belonging to various cultures and forms of literature (literary and artistic: historical novels, fiction, poetic lines; multiple forms and genres of non-fiction literature: travelogues, philosophical essays, memoirs, letters, verbatim report, etc.). Research analytics allowed to arrive at the following results. Samarkand as a city with an ancient history, as a center of science, culture, arts, a place with a unique landscape, topology and way of life is reflected in a wide variety of literary sources. Taken together, they present an image of a city that has all the signs of an authentic cultural code. The literary model of the “Samarkand text” is formed as a semiotic field with a wide range of its own stable, original dominant features that distinguish it from other texts and at the same time allow the phenomenon to be rightfully included in the overall system of local fields of world culture.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-34-45
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Intertextuality in A. Salnikov’s novel “Occulttreger”
- Authors: Daria L. Kulikova
  Pages: 46 - 55
  Abstract: The features of the use of intertextual references in A. Salnikov’s novel “Occulttreger” are examined. The goal is to study the intertextual connections of the novel with works of various types of art (literature, music, cinema). The task is to classify sources of re- ferences and interpret them. A general thesis is put forward about the fundamental importance of intertext as a tool for creating a fantasy world and a method of artistic generalization of reality. Analysis of references allows us to identify many cultural phenomena that the writer refers to in order to summarize the modern pop cultural agenda. The novel's precedent sources are varied and often come from contemporary cultural products. The use of references to popular culture reflects such a feature of modernity as the consumption of content, which is part of people’s everyday life. An abundance of references accompanies the fantastic part of the novel and in the realistic epilogue they disappear, which makes us talk about intertext as a stylistic marker of fantasy in Salnikov. Film quotes visualize text and synchronize reader’s and artistic time. The space of the novel can be interpreted as oneiric; the dream narrative in the novel is created by an excess of cultural associations.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-46-55
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Literature and interethnic relations at the turn of the 20th-21st
centuries in collections of essays by E. Goryukhina
- Authors: Miyasat Sh. Muslimova, Saidat Kh. Yakhiyaeva
  Pages: 56 - 65
  Abstract: The authors investigate the problem of reflecting the Caucasian local wars of the turn of the XX and XXI centuries in the essays by E. Goryukhina included in the books “The teachers journey to the Caucasus” and “Don’t divide us, Lord, don’t divide us”. The purpose of the study is to analyze the author’s disclosure of the peculiarities of interethnic relations during military conflicts in the Caucasus and to identify the value meanings of the lessons of the events that took place. As a methodological basis, a literary analysis of the content and form of the texts studied, a comparative analysis of documentary-historical and essay literature is chosen. The genre originality of E. Goryukhina’s essays is substantiated, the author's position on the raised problem and the position of the peoples involved in the military conflict are identified, the alienness of war to the genuine interests of the people is shown, the mental features of the concept of “Caucasian man” are revealed, the influence of war on the specifics of historically formed national relations between the peoples of the Caucasus, the Caucasus and Russia is discovered. Conclusions are drawn about the high importance of E. Goryukhina’s essays for understanding the humanistic psychology of the Caucasian peoples and establishing mutual understanding between peoples, for overcoming stereotypes. The complexity and depth of historically formed relations between ethnic groups requiring consideration and careful preservation are disclosed.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-56-65
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Neo-gothic motifs in the novel by I. Welsh “The Blade Artist”
- Authors: Tatiana A. Naumenko, Larisa A. Nazarova
  Pages: 66 - 73
  Abstract: The peculiarities of the interpretation of neo-gothic motifs in the novel by I. Welsh “The Blade Artist” are examined. Many researchers have paid attention to the processing of the usual neo-gothic tropes in postmodern literature, however, in relation to the novel under consideration by I. Welsh, this problem is posed by authors for the first time. The aim is to highlight the transformation of motifs familiar to neo-gothic traditions (the spatial motif of the castle, the motif of the “otherworldly” and “terrible”, realized in the presence of ghosts, supernatural beings, curses). The task is to prove the continuity of the work of I. Welsh in relation to the neo-gothic tradition, to actualize the specific spatial motif of the “castle” for the gothic and neo-gothic tradition, highlighted by M.M. Bakhtin. The general thesis is put forward that the appeal of postmodern literature (to which the novel “The Blade Artist” belongs) the neo-gothic motives are connected with the meta-genre of neo-gothic as an artistic direction, as well as with the rethinking of the plots and tropes familiar to him. The authors conclude that the usual neo-gothic motifs are used to reflect on the past and present of the region of the United Kingdom - Scotland, as well as to rethink the answers to long-asked questions of morality.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-66-73
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
The peculiarities of chronotope in Kazuo Ishiguro’s stories
“Crooner” and “Come Rain or Come Shine”
- Authors: Alina A. Mikheikina
  Pages: 74 - 81
  Abstract: The features of the chronotope in Kazuo Ishiguro’s stories “Crooner” and “Come Rain or Come Shine” are examined. The main attention is paid to the analysis of the features of artistic space and time in the texts. In particular, the features of open and closed, mental and physical spaces are dissected. The metaphorical meanings of some loci in the stories are identified and interpreted. The focus is on how individual images of spaces allow the author to reveal the themes of memory and love that are to be found in Ishiguro’s works quite often. It is stated that the theme of love in the story “Crooner” is characterized by the presence of positive features, which distinguishes this work from other examples of the writer’s prose. This study highlights how music becomes an element of the artistic space of some episodes. It is suggested that this feature enhances the sensory nature of the texts. In addition, it allows the author to introduce intermedial allusions. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the features of the chronotope in the analyzed stories serve to deepen psychologism, reflect the mental state of the characters. It also enriches the presentation of some episodes.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-74-81
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
From silence to speech: women’s breathing space in “The Laugh
of the Medusa”
- Authors: Sushila Ojha, Jaya Kritika Ojha
  Pages: 82 - 88
  Abstract: The study focuses on the empowering aspects of women’s writing referring Helen Cixous influential work “The Laugh of the Medusa”. Cixous passionately advocates for women to embrace writing, as a tool for self-expression and liberation believing that it has the potential to not transform individual lives but also shape culture, history, and society. The authors suggest that by expressing themselves, contemporary women can establish their place in the world just as the Medusas gaze turned enemies into stone. The paper also explores the connection between language, subjectivity and diversity which are related in feminist discourse. It emphasises the importance of reclaiming language that has historically marginalised women and highlights the need to develop a vocabulary that truly reflects their experiences and aspirations. Important is to create an environment where women are given the space and support to communicate their thoughts and feelings. It is crucial for women to cultivate their own voices, honour their bodies and utilise language to challenge patriarchal norms. The continuous fight for gender equality and empowerment is fueled by Cixous's appeal for women to reclaim their voices and experiences. The research stresses about providing women the room and encouragement they need to express themselves. Women's writing may act as a catalyst for the destruction of repressive power systems, to pave the way for a just, equal, humane, and free world for women.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-82-88
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Between fact and fiction: a detailed study of the ‘literary’ in
investigative journalism with reference to Dan Morse’s “The Yoga Store
Murder”
- Authors: T. K. Kavya, B. B. Monika Nair
  Pages: 89 - 102
  Abstract: Literature and journalism are two field of study that has been a never-ending discussion throughout the history. The two fields, regardless of being considered as separate entity, has its association in the course. This paper dwells into the two fields together, that is, on literary journalism and how literary journalism examines the blurring of boundaries between narrative writing and factual reporting through comparison of select works of narrative nonfiction. The text analysed is a novelistic piece, “The Yoga Store Murder” (2013) by Dan Morse. The study confronts the reluctance to acknowledge this form of reportage as authentic and reliable because its literariness is misconstrued as compromising the objectivity of the piece. The authors also examine how literary journalism fits within the rubric of both literature and journalism. The study addresses the following research questions: where do fact and fiction meet in literary journalistic narratives' how do we navigate questions of authenticity, reliability and journalistic integrity in narrative journalism' The questions will be attempted to be answered with a detailed analysis of a text of investigative journalism that is also nonfiction writing, though literary in nature.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-89-102
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
The narrative in literary journalism
- Authors: Nataliya Panasenko, Ida Petrovičová
  Pages: 103 - 113
  Abstract: Literary journalism offers a way to convey the truth of real-life events and issues in a more engaging and emotionally impactful manner than traditional news reporting. It bridges the gap between storytelling and journalism, appealing to audiences who seek both the depth of factual reporting and the immersive experience of narrative storytelling. Like any other type of journalism, it has its own features, to which belong immersion, text specific structure, accuracy in presenting content, voice or personal perspective. The purpose of the study is to consider one of storytelling’s techniques, narrative, which covers the plot of the story, its characters, setting, topics and the author’s point of view. The research is based on the ana- lysis of the essays, opinions and reportages as typical examples of narratives in literary journalism. Contextual analysis of political narrative and social-psychological narrative, which are often found in analytical or rational journalism, aims at extracting information of social, political, historical, and culture-specific character. Stylistic analysis of the considered texts gave us possibility to visualize the examples of emotively charged words and stylistic devices. Qualitative content analysis shows that most vividly narrative communication is seen in such journalistic messages, as an essay, opinion, and reportage. Each narrative has a purpose, which dictates the narrative techniques.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-103-113
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
The Times’ conceptual approaches to covering military coups in
Africa
- Authors: Tamara S. Yakova, Alexander V. Kolesnichenko, Ilona O. Danilina
  Pages: 114 - 124
  Abstract: The article presents the results of the study of the British newspaper The Times' approaches to covering the military coups in Gabon and Niger in 2023. The research methodology included quantitative and qualitative content analysis and analysis of publications according to the criteria of the concept of constructive journalism. The empirical base consisted of The Times articles for the first 10 months of 2023. The results of the comparative analysis of the texts showed that the publications do not comply with the principles of the concept of constructive journalism and do not take into account the basic methods of positive psychology. Russia is mentioned in most publications in the context of military cooperation in the region, with half of the publications being neutral and the rest negative. In part of the publications negative characteristics are given without arguments, references to documents, to statements of the Russian leadership with the designation of Russia's position. Such publications are characterized by their focus on discrediting cooperation between African countries and Russia. This cooperation is assessed as a way to lead to crisis and deterioration of security in the region. At the same time, journalists express in their publications only their own views and do not provide assessments and opinions of experts of international organizations and citizens of African states.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-114-124
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Old radio in new guise: understanding relevance of amateur/ham radio in
India
- Authors: Arunima Mukherjee, Pratip Chattopadhyay, Anna N. Moreva
  Pages: 125 - 134
  Abstract: Development of information and communication technology in India has reached a new height with the successful landing of Chandrayan-3 to moon in August 2023. In such a developed milieu of communication, otherwise seen as obsolete medium of communication, amateur radio must be revisited and seen in the context of their present form of activities in India. Ham radio organizations are present in almost all countries of the world, but it was mainly seen as a means of communication in a pre-digital world. Ham radio organizations in Indian society with their exemplary activities in the resent millennium seems to be the silent servers of society cutting across communities without much media or academic attention as compared to community radio organizations which caters to specific communities with specific goals. The study aims to highlight such untapped potential of ham radio in Indian society which can be used as an alternative communication channel in emergency situations. It is concluded by arguing that ham radio resonates the spirit of logic, logistics and language of new digital media era and can be seen as a balanced communication form between old media and new media era.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-125-134
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
TV channels in a period of turbulence: content strategies in social media
- Authors: Lyudmila A. Kruglova, Galina G. Shchepilova
  Pages: 135 - 151
  Abstract: The results of the examination of six Russian TV channels (Channel One, Rossiya 1, NTV, STS, TNT, Friday!) are presented, the peculiarities of their work with social media VKontakte and Odnoklassniki are revealed. An attempt was made to identify the changed digital content strategies of TV channels in turbulent conditions. The effectiveness of TV accounts in social media during four weeks of 2022 and 2023 has been studied. The following parameters were analysed: number of posts, user comments, views and likes. Based on audience and channel activity, the Engagement Rate of users in the published content was determined. The most popular publications among the audience were identified, their formats and thematic focus were reviewed. The return of interest to the Odnoklassniki resource was noted. The tendency of the past years when TV channels duplicated content in their accounts of various social networks was also recorded. During the period of changes in the media landscape and social turbulence, the audience demand for news agenda, on the one hand, and entertainment, or rather “distracting” content, on the other hand, was noted.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-135-151
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Features of media legal regulation in Mongolia
- Authors: Naranbaatar Byambajav, Bayarmaa Boldbaatar, Nino Skvortsova
  Pages: 152 - 163
  Abstract: Information and the means of its dissemination are becoming increasingly important in the modern world. Since the final information product is capable of influencing socio-political processes, political forces prone to authoritarianism strive to monopolize the media space, using the regulatory framework and economic resources for this. At the international level, mostly in Western Europe, the legislative approach to the media meets the democratic standards of society and its political and economic interests. The regulatory framework is synchronized with digitalization, technological development of media and public communications, in contrast to countries with unstable economies that adopt both technology and regulatory innovations from the outside. A study of the legislative framework underlying the formation of the media space and communication system of Mongolia demonstrates a number of errors and deviations in the development of press freedom and national journalism. The authors update the issues of independent professional journalistic activity and the need to inform the public, the openness of government institutions and the transparency of their work. Examples are given of violations of the rights of journalists and pressure on commercial media, which affects the quality of the media space, the economic interests of media owners and the rights of citizens.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-152-163
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
The problems of creative management in TV-production
- Authors: Irina N. Kemarskaya
  Pages: 164 - 173
  Abstract: The author, who has many years of practical experience of popular TV-programs creative producing, actualizes the problems of creative personnel management. The purpose of modern creative management assumes not only the integration of the media journalists’ convergent skills, but also the development of their creative abilities in original content development. Creativity is a semantically broad conception. By exploring empirical practice, the author identifies the most topical problems emphasizing the need of developing new approaches to creative management. The overabundance of definitions blurs the value criteria of post-industrial production of the screen shows. There is a collision of two aesthetic paradigms: innovative, Art Nouveau aesthetics, and “repetitive” postmodern aesthetics, proclaiming the creative value of variations. The method of variations demonstrates the author's individuality through predecessors' achievements, adapting other people's creative discoveries. Skills of “primary” and “secondary” creativeness represent a new type of media competencies. Interactive methods, gamification, multi-level brainstorming, discursive switching techniques make it possible to improve new criteria for media professionalism in the era of the upcoming creative economy.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-164-173
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
Understanding trauma and the path to rehabilitation with reference to
Harry Potter and Shiva Trilogy
- Authors: Sangeeta Jhajharia, Shikha Choudhary
  Pages: 174 - 185
  Abstract: Over the past century, the forays into the human psyche have contributed a great deal towards mental health awareness. However, present times feel the demand of focusing on milder issues than extreme psychological disorders, since the seemingly inconsequential issues in isolation have the potential to become a cause for severe mental health issues as they begin piling up if ignored without being dealt with. The purpose of this study is to explore the availability and validation of such avenues. This research follows the origin and evolution of trauma through the works of medicals, academics, theorists, and researchers to create a cohesive and wholesome picture, covering the vast span of the human psyche from the foundations in psychoanalytic theory to the pluralistic trauma theory in literature; and it’s correlation to the issues on a spectrum of trauma from mild to severe, faced by literary characters in the Shiva Trilogy and Harry Potter’s novels that kept being overlooked and turned into the underlying cause of extreme issues. The researchers analyze through this study that trauma cannot be limited to just mental health disorders severe enough to require professional attention. Rather, they indicate the requirement for an inclusive approach and deeper study into the seemingly superficial events and issues of trauma before they have the chance to build up to the severity of mental health disorders.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-174-185
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)
“The American Dream” - concept, myth, or trope'
- Authors: Alwan Hassan Albulanee
  Pages: 186 - 194
  Abstract: It has been almost a century since James Truslow Adams’ formulation of the concept “American dream” in “The Epic of America” (1931). The review aims to follow the concept of the American dream and its evolution over centuries, encompassing the attainment of such core values as freedom, equal opportunity, and the search for happiness. It has been established that at the heart of this notion lies the belief that the United States offers boundless possibilities to those with determination, courage, and audacity to pursue their dreams, relying on hard work and risk-taking rather than mere luck or chance. An integral facet of American “mythology” is highlighted - each individual’s capacity to achieve their dreams and secure a comfortable lifestyle through diligent effort and self-sacrifice, propagating the idea that everyone can be successful. It is concluded that an expression dedicated to this social accomplishment is “to go from rags to riches,” encapsulating this journey.
  PubDate: 2024-06-30
  DOI: 10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-186-194
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2024)

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