Tatiana Osadchaia

Sevastopol State University · Romance and Germanic Philology and European Studies

The article examines the principles of stylistic polyphony, which find their original embodiment in a literary text. The most prominent means which create the polyphonic effect are stylistic heterogeneity, multiple points of view, multi-genre format, multidimensional space and time organization, intertextuality. The aim of this work is to study the...

This article discusses the basics of neorealism aesthetics and principles, which can be traced in a number of works of contemporary fiction. These principles are specifically manifested in the novel by a contemporary American writer D. Eggers “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” which serves the material for this study. The purpose of the ar...

The article deals with the artistic space of the novels by contemporary American writer Dave Eggers “The Circle” and “The Every”, which are devoted to the problems of corporate tyranny. The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of artistic space in these novels. As the analysis has showed, the artistic space of the studied novels is ch...

The article examines the works of contemporary American writers devoted to the role of language and literature in human life and society. The works of such diverse authors as J. Franzen, D. Eggers and E. Doerr were selected for the analysis. The study of their points of view on this issue has shown that the authors in different ways but with equal...

The article considers approaches to the concept of ‘intersemiotics’ in contemporary literary studies, provides its definition and characterization, defines special features of intersemiotics among other related concepts. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze means and functions of the category of intersemiotics in the novel “Girl with...

The article explores the leading metamodernist features evident in the autobiographical novel ‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’ (2001) by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers. The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristic features of metamodernism in contemporary works on the basis of an interpretive analysis of D. Egg...

Personal worldview can be subjected to linguistic modeling even if the person in question is a fictional character. This research featured the vocabulary invented by the contemporary American writer Dave Eggers for his dystopic dilogy, as well as the role of this fictional language in creating satirical mode. The study involved such methods of cogn...

The article is devoted to the «literary mask» as the leading means to create the hero’s psychological portrait in the novel «Billy Summers» by S. King. The study’s relevance is due to an important issue of personal identification and self-identification in the society, which has been and remains the subject in fiction and which is represented in va...

The article studies the notion of “magic realism” and highlights some of the feature characteristic of this literary movement. The main attention in the work is focused on the description of magical and realistic elements, the combination of which forms the artistic space of the works of magical realism and of the novel “Firestarter” by S. King, in...

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of developing students-philologists’ competence to analyze and interpret literary texts. The relevance of the study is due to the need to introduce and improve a competency-based approach to higher education. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the relevance of assignments for the classes...

The chapter deals with the novel of a contemporary American writer M. Pessl, which has a pronounced polycode character since it contains traces of several discourse codes: cinematographic, musical, media and the discourse of gaming. In interaction, these codes create opportunities for generating complex holistic images, contribute to the realizatio...

Abstract. Modern novels of the postmodern trend in literature demonstrate the occurrence of gaming techniques almost at all levels of the text. The article is devoted to the investigation of language game elements used in fiction, and to the specification of their role and functions in representing the message of the text. In the focus of our atten...

Abstract.The article discusses content aspects of the metacognitive approach to teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills of students in foreign language classes at higher educational institutions. Aspects of the metacognitive approach which can be used in foreign language classes at Russian higher educational institutions are determine...

Addressing different existential issues is the reaction of modern literature to a crisis state of civilization, the attempt to comprehend the new worldview, and, as a result, the new system of relations between an individual and society. Within the postmodern paradigm, due to influence of existentialism a number of specific features appear in the n...

Contemporary works of fiction are characterized by a complicated narrative strategy involving experiments with focalization. Narratology postulates that focalization (the point of view expressed in the narrative) serves to organize the text structure and modulate its perception by the reader. The aim of the chapter is to analyze different functions...

The author of any text of fiction uses certain genre forms, narrative techniques and perspectives. Modern literature, postmodern fiction in particular, can be characterized by combining or mixing of several genre and narrative characteristics in one work. As a rule, this combination or mixture realizes special stylistic functions resulting in addit...

top-down и bottom-up стратегии; метакогнитивный подход к обучению и его преимущества. Сле-дующие инновации могут быть творчески применены преподавателями в учеб-ном процессе: формирование у обучающихся «базы восприятия» и выработка «автоматизма восприятия» иностранной речи на слух; использование приема взаимодействия и активного обсуждения звучащег...

G.I. Lushnikova, T. Iu. Osadchaia. The issue ‘real/illusory’ in the postmodern novel «Winter» by Ali Smith. The article analyzes the novel “Winter” (2018), written by a contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith, whose works have not yet been sufficiently studied by Russian literary criticism. The main issue of the novel under investigation is the real...

The study of the collection of short stories «How We Are Hungry» by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers has shown that a peculiar author’s picture of the world is realized through various forms of author’s presence, through ideas of «new sincerity» which is in line with principles of metamodernism. The main forms of this presence are rhetori...

This article is devoted to the analysis of documentary fiction based on the material of the story “The Monk of Mokha” by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers. The purpose of the study is to identify methods of implementing and synthesizing documentary and artistic codes in this work, as well as to determine the main functions of such a synthe...

The article discusses the role of the title in the manifestation of text categories in a short story. The material for the study is the collection of short stories "How We Are Hungry" by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers which is of interest in many respects, in particular in terms of formal, content and functional peculiarities of short s...

Currently, the literary process is witnessing the emergence of a new trend — post-postmodernism, developing along several lines. The article offers a review of theoretical works of Russian and foreign authors, devoted to the study of post-postmodernism, its main charac­teristics, and terminology. On the basis of the novel "The Circle" (2013), writt...

The article grounds importance and necessity of studying the specifics of functional styles within the foreign language university course. Despite the fact that theoretical issues of functional styles, their classification, different language level units of each functional style are being studied within the course, developing practical skills of us...

New forms of intertextuality are constantly being discovered in fiction, which requires a common methodological basis for its analysis. A brief overview of English-language detective stories shows that intertextuality in this genre can be realized in different forms and perform various functions. The leading research method of the study is interpre...

Interpretations of the multidimensional concept of “writer’s idiostyle” are presented in the framework of the study of its various characteristics, in particular, in the context of the study of a linguistic personality, from the point of view of the linguotypology of a literary text, from the standpoint of a communicative-activity approach. The rel...

The article examines specifics of fragmentation in contemporary works of fiction. Identifying elements that connect heterogeneous episodes or fragments can reshape readers’ experience and serve as a key for interpretation. The analysis of the detective novel “Troubled Blood” by R. Galbraith has demonstrated that fragmentation is realized at differe...

The article is devoted to the poetics of the short story cycle - a genre of short narrative fiction, where classical traditions and experimental narrative techniques are used to explicate topical issues of contemporary British literature. Beside the fact that the stories are relatively short, they are characterized by semantic compression, gaps in...

The study focuses on the manifestation of the main literary trends – postmodernism and post-postmodernism – in the novels of the contemporary American writer J. Franzen, which has determined the purpose of the paper – to identify, characterize and analyze the leading features of the new literary tendencies that have obtained original interpretation...

The question of the role, forms and functions of fragmentation of modern artistic narra tive is considered. The results of the analy sis of the fragmentary narrative of the works of contemporary English-speaking authors (J. Barnes, D. Mitchell, M. Cunningham, I. Banks, J. Franzen, S. Faulks, J. Eugenides, A. Smith, J. McGregor and others) are prese...

The study focuses on the manifestation of the main literary trends – postmodernism and post-postmodernism – in the novels of the contemporary American writer J. Franzen, which has determined the purpose of the paper – to identify, characterize and analyze the leading features of the new literary tendencies that have obtained original interpretation...

The article analyzes the novel ‘Purity’ by a contemporary American writer J. Franzen within thetranscultural perspective. The author among many other things addresses the issue of mutual interactionof cultures in rapidly globalizing modern world. The analysis of J. Franzen’s ‘Purity’ proves it to be thenovel of multiple cultural context where the a...

The principles and techniques of spontaneous prose in the stories of the modern English writer J. McGregor are considered. The novelty of the research is determined by the insufficient study of the specifics of spontaneous prose in modern literature in general and the principles of spontaneity in the stories of J. McGregor, in particular. The relev...

The article analyzes the novel “Winter” (2018), written by a contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith, whose works have not yet been sufficiently studied by Russian literary criticism. The main issue of the novel under investigation is the real and the illusory in the person’s worldview and their relationship with real world. This issue is presented...

The analysis of literary works of the 21st century shows that the genesis of modern novel is largely grounded by the process of genre modifying. The modern novel is especially prone to contamination of genres: authors either embed parts that preserve their own genre characteristics into, or mix elements of different genres throughout the work, eith...

The manual introduces students to British, Irish and American fiction of the late XX - early XXI century. Each chapter contains a brief information about the author, questions on his or her specific works and test tasks; all this allows students to identify the unique style of each of the presented writers. Fragments of the works of literature prop...

Postmodern play is one of the important characteristics of modern fiction; it often acts as a text-forming element of the literary work. Literary play is manifested within different text levels and literary discourse strategies: the narrative, composition, imagery, diction, narrative temporality and modality, the technique of metanarrative. The pre...

The manual is intended for undergraduate students studying the subject "Style of the English language" in preparation for the profiles of "foreign Philology", "Teaching of philological disciplines", "Primary education and English." It consists of 8 chapters, which include a theoretical part devoted to the key problems of style, and questions for se...

The article is devoted to the study of contemporary English-language novels on existential themes. The aim of the work is to determine specific features, types and functions of irony in the works of this genre. The analysis is based on the novels by K. Ishiguro, D. DeLillo, J. Coe, I. McEwan, M. Amis and P. Auster. This choice is due to the fact th...

The monograph examines the main characteristics of modern English-language literature, presents the results of the analysis of traditional and innovative trends that can be traced with varying degrees of intensity in the works of leading contemporary authors. The texts of literary works act as an object of literary, linguistic and linguoculturologi...

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of code-mixing, i.e. functioning of the units of various textual systems within the frame of one text, which is realized in modern existentialist novels and proves to be one of the main tendencies of postmodern literature. The subject-matter of the analysis is the thematic, conceptual, genre levels and the level...

The paper discusses the importance of intercultural competence for future international business professionals. This competence becomes increasingly popular today because in terms of integration and globalization, it affects the person’s professional performance in the modern business environment. The paper explores the nature and content of the ph...