The article discusses the image of the nature of the Far East, created in the book by N. Przhevalsky “Journey to the Ussuri region” (1870). It is shown that the artistic experience of the writer and his “sense of nature” correlate with the traditions of Russian naturalistic essays literature, and with the scientific natural history concepts of his time (in particular, with the views of A. Humboldt and phenological descriptions). The image of nature created by the writer is built in the stylistic boundaries of the realistic landscape presented in the works of the Russian classical literature. The task of the study is to identify the mechanisms of aesthetization of documentary scientific material. It is shown that the structure of the narrative is determined by the ratio of the cognitive-analytical and estimated-emotional perception; methods of landscape descriptions that Przhevalsky uses are revealed: visualization, contrast, redundancy, coloristics; descriptions are built, mainly in the dynamics of the daily and seasonal changes. Przhevalsky's “Sense of Nature” includes ideas about the beauty, harmony, unknowability, and self-sufficiency of the natural world.

The purpose of the article is to try to outline the range of meanings of the concept of contempt in the works of M. Lermontov, as well as to determine the dynamics of its development from early to late works. On the basis of examples from early lyrics, prose and late lyrics, we distinguish several meanings of the concept of contempt, which is included in the philosophical and ethical system of M. Lermontov, along with the concepts of love, hatred, disappointment, etc. The constant mention of the concept of contempt by the author emphasizes its importance in the works of M. Lermontov as a whole.

The goal of the article is to restore and to analyze the historical and literary continuity between the works of the Russian writer of the second half of the 19th century, G. Uspensky, and Soviet essayists V. Ovechkin and E. Dorosh. The basis of this continuity was “the power of the land” formula discovered by Uspensky, which synthesized archaic ideas about the “mother-raw earth” and the religious idea of the resurrection of man. The “power of the land” has become a national myth, much-needed by the Russian intelligentsia during the crisis periods of the national culture. The article is addressed to all those interested in Russian literature.

The article poses and solves the issue of conducting a comparative analysis of the attitude to the problem of sects by Dostoevsky and Turgenev. For the first time in literary studies, similarity and difference are being traced in the depiction of the Khlystov’s “prophets” in Dostoevsky’s novel “The Mistress” and in “The Strange Story” by Turgenev. The image of the sectarian leader, the false prophet, enslaving the will of those who believed him, is confirmed by historical research on cults. The article is intended not only for philologists but also for religious scholars, historians, as well as anyone interested in Russian classics and the history of religions.

The objective of the article is to present the characteristic of T. Dreiser's views on the fate of the female artist in the United States of the early twentieth century. The main content of the article is the analysis of female images in the “Genius”, published in 1915. The author seeks to trace the relationship of women's theme with the feminism and the problem of relationships between artist and society on the example of the image system of the novel. The author of the paper points out the writer's special perception of the female theme: Dreiser was one of the first to address the issue of the fate of the female artist in this period. The article is addressed to philologists and linguists engaged in the study of American literature.

The article discusses the features of Pasternak's poetics, which influenced K. Simonov’s “For neighbors in the nomad tent” cycle. The work is based on a comparative method of research. It is concluded that the legacy of Pasternak is attracted at various levels. Thus, Simonov masters a five-stop anapaest uses colloquial grammatical forms of nouns and adverbs with intensity and spontaneity semantics. It is shown that he adopts paths based on everyday images and “flexible pledges”, he resorts to the transformation of conversational idioms, uses syntactically unsupported repetitions and a special type of everyday questioning. The poetics of Pasternak helps Simonov to create pictures of military life and incorporate the military experience into continuous being.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the novel by W. Pater “Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas” (1885), a book sufficiently original for the era of English decadence. The methodology is based on a historical and literary approach. Marked and highlighted are the main themes of the novel, among which special attention is paid to the theme of religion and related issues of death. In conclusion, the author comes to the decision that the idea of the “eternal Renaissance” is a kind of foundation for the novel in question.

The article proposes to consider self-transcendence - the phenomenon of devoting oneself to a socially significant purpose - as a distinctive feature of the hero of English literary works within the framework of the course of metamodernism; to make a comparison the ideals of postmodernism and metamodernism reflected in literary works; show the importance of biography and pseudo-autobiography genres in the historical and cultural process. With the help of analysis and synthesis method, the authors compare socio-historical processes with their literary mapping and come to the conclusion that it is the change of consciousness - a return to integrity and syncretism - that provides the basis for self-transcendence as an understanding and realization of oneself in the world.

This article discusses the features of the artistic space in the poetic collection “Evening” by A. Akhmatova. The following types of spaces are distinguished: distant and near, open and external, internal and closed, horizontal and vertical, static and dynamic, as well as real. The emphasis is placed on the metaphorical space and space, correlated with time, highlighted such an important component as the border (physical or psychological). The article concludes that the collection “Evening” has an internal unity (motives, themes, rhymes, means of expression, etc.), which indicates the complex spatial organization of the collection.

The article deals with the debatable issue of the interpretation of the novel “Invitation to a Beheading” by Vladimir Nabokov. The main attention is paid to the semantics of the metaphor of literary art as one of the main subtexts of the novel. On the basis of the comparison of the novel text and other literary works by V. Nabokov the associative series: square - zigzag - chess knight and circle - spiral - butterfly, reflecting the Nabokov’s concept of art and artist’s personality are revealed. Within one of the main versions of the novel’s content, a new interpretation of the key episodes and scenes is suggested.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the use of kazachisms in the texts of the Russian language media on the material of the newspaper “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda”. The semantics and the degree of development of the foreign inclusions in modern newspaper text are considered. The attention is paid to the peculiarity of the national color of local journalism, its flexibility and anthropocentricity. These examples show the free use of such inclusions in cases where specific terms, concepts, and symbols from the sphere of politics and administrative activity are used, in the nominations of institutions and organizations, in the characterization of folk traditions. The author establishes that foreign elements in the official Russian public are perceived by the Kazakh native speakers as the cultural phenomena of the nation.

The objective of the article is to identify the features and characteristics of currently existing types of abbreviation as an integral part of the language of modern media. The main content of the article is the analysis of the reasons for the development of this type of word formation. The conducted analysis allows to conclude that the language of modern media is characterized by high capacity, conciseness, informativeness, which leads to the wide functioning of abbreviations. The media actively create and use new types of abbreviations. The article presents examples of abbreviations. The results of the research may be used for further study of the abbreviation as a productive type of word formation, identification of trends in the development of the language of modern media. The article is addressed to researchers-philologists, graduate students, students interested in studying and identifying tendencies in the development of the modern Russian language.

The article presents the study of features of speech behavior of characters in novels by F. Dostoyevsky in relation to the sphere of the concept “chelovekobog”. On the basis of the systematic analysis of language means as representatives of specifics of speech behavior, the following types of Dostoyevsky’s “chelovekobog” character are defined: “failed super personality”, “paradoxist”, “paranoid personality”. Language ways of representation of these types are defined. It is proved that the analyzed speech characteristics are among the most indicative in the description of the inner world of heroes in F. Dostoyevsky’s novels, of their state of mind, social status and also personal development.

The article presents the results of the analysis of language material extracted from modern Internet resources, on the basis of which the phenomenon of inversion and patterns of its use in news headlines were investigated. Inverted headings are structured on the basis of such extralinguistic reasons as pragmatics and accentology. The article presents the results of the classification of inverted headings according to the structure of the sentence and the position of the sentence member located in the absolute beginning.

The goal of this research is to describe the genesis of advertisements in Russian newspapers as a separate speech genre; for this study, the 19th century was chosen as a key period in the history of Russian advertising. In the process of working with original sources, selected and analyzed were the texts of advertisements, and also described were. the language features specific to a particular historical period. The article proclaims that during the 19th century appeared the prerequisites for the developing of a speech genre of advertisements, which later separated from the previously common group of general advertisements. During this period in the texts also appeared some typical methods of advertising, which determined the further development of the genre. The work shows a large amount of material that has not been sufficiently studied before, and also contributes to the study of the history of Russian advertising and genesis of new genres.

This article discusses the expressive means used in a speech by TV hosts of the discussion polemical talk shows and information programs. The relevance of the study is due to the increased verbal impact on a viewer, associated with the emergence of new types of broadcasts and changes in the style of conducting programs by journalists. It has been established that the same content, verbalized by neutral and expressive means, has a different effect on the addressee. In the television broadcasting, colloquial and stylistically reduced vocabulary, word-formation occasionalisms, metaphors, comparisons, upward gradation and lexical repetition contribute to the achievement of the main communicative goal of the speaker - persuasion and influence. The language and speech expressive means that implement the semantic category of intensity have the maximum effect: intensive adjectives, affixes with an enforcing meaning, lexical and contextual synonyms in gradation series.