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CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PROSE IN THE MIRROR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING CRITIQUE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 8 (98). P. 138-141

The article covers the problem of perception of the contemporary Russian prose by the Western criticism; a special attention is given to the analysis of differences in approach and of national and cultural peculiarities of the perception of the newest Russian literature in Russia and in the West. By means of the contrastive analysis of opinions about L.Petrushevskaya's, V.Makanin's, V.Pelevin's works in the native and English-speaking criticism the major tendencies in the reception of the contemporary Russian literature are developed.

Keywords: contemporary Russian prose, English-speaking criticism, western criticism, native criticism and philology, feministic literature, female prose, Soviet literature and mentality, postmodernism, pop-culture, cognitive dissonance, Russian national archetype

V. M. SHUKSHIN IN V. P.ETSUHA’S PERCEPTION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 7 (109). P. 155-158

In this article V. P.etsuha’s interest in Shukshin’s work can be explained by exceptional literariness of his work, perfection in epic form, close attention to lives of ordinary people. Appeal by the master of contemporary ironic prose to works of “the last Russian classicist” can be linked to the author’s preferred genres and everlasting interest in studying Russian national character.

Keywords: contemporary Russian prose, postmodernism, ironic, genre, anecdote, absurd, paradox, Russian national character.

“WILD ANIMALS TALES” BY L. PETRUSHEVSKAYA // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 11 (152). P. 95-97

In the given article L. Petrushevskaya’s usage and experiment with genre archetype of the tale can be explained by the perfect mastery of small epic form, flamboyant direction of its style, an inexhaustible interest to paradoxes, attention to the privacy of ordinary people. The mix of genres occurs within the entire culture - from fairy tales to the novel. "Wild Animals Fairy Tales" at the same time focused on the tradition of social and domestic stories and tales about animals using functional elements anecdotes and fables. The author proposes a model cycle, mock-oriented TVseries. Despite the accompplished story, each series tends to expand the space and time. Guarantee of the integrity of the cycle, a form that combines the features of different genres and different arts, becomes animated series.

Keywords: literary fairy tale, genre transformation, irony, absurdity, paradox