16 articles in this issue
Michaela Krämer
In the format of interpretation the creative laboratory of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” is being revealed. By all accounts “The Tempest” has no specific sources. This study, however, supposes, that Shakespeare could refer to the basic concept and, from thi... see more
Roman Mnich
The article deals with the mainstream issues of contemporary Franko Studies, one of the most important fields of Ukrainian Literary Studies. The contemporary Franko Studies includes different discourses (political, sociological, linguistic, and literary),... see more
Ivo Pospíšil
At the material of the Masaryk University Archives the author of the present study explicates from the scholarly point of view extremely significant and prolific fragment from Roman Jakobson’s biography connected with Brno university and the creation of t... see more
Iryna Vikyrchak
English poetry by Rose Ausländer is an interesting phenomenon in the biography and writing of the German-speaking author, associated with the practical aspects of life in exile and psychological traumas. Using the method of analysis of poetic texts create... see more
Silvestras Gaižiunas
Hermann Hesse has kindred relations with Latvia. His grandmother from the father‘s side Jeanette Agnese Lass (1807–1851) was born in Courland. Interesting Hesse’s relation with father’s cousin Monica Hunnius (1858–1934), who wrote a book about writer’s gr... see more
Yulia Isapchuk
The study analyzes the novel fragment of the outstanding Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) “Requiem for Fanny Goldmann” (“Requiem für Fanny Goldmann”) from the cycle “Death Styles” (“Todesarten”). The attention is paid to the spatial organizat... see more
Aliona Matiychak
The article concerns issues of culturological construct in the novels of such prominent author in British fiction as Iris Murdoch. The ekphrastic content in the reception of a personosphere in her novels is of functional significance.The interrelation of ... see more
Sergey Tuzkov
The analysis of G. Meyrink's novel “The Golem” is represented in the article in terms of gothic tradition in literature. The advantage of this investigation is that the majoriry of literary scholars point out those aspects of the novel “The Golem” th... see more
Yevheniy Vasilyev
The article discusses the genre ofcrossover drama, borrowed from cinema (where it is a genre in which storylines of two or more works and characters of different movies intersect) and widespread in contemporary drama. The functioning of crossover in the h... see more
Tereza Levchuk
Biographical writings emphasize the ability of fiction to combine facts and conjectures.This binary is laid at the level of documentary bases of biography, presented by memoirs, epistolary, diaries. Self-image forming is accompanied by some mystification ... see more
Mariia Moklytsia
In article refuted existing in the history of Ukrainian literature thesis on artistic helplessness novel “Duma of virgin forest” by O. Turyansky. Turyansky known as the author of the story “Below the pain”, a work dedicated to the events of World War... see more
Svitlana Kyryliuk
Creative worlds of Mykhaylo Kotsiubynskyi and Volodymyr Vynnychenko clearly describe the peculiarities of literary fin de siècle in Ukrainian literature of the period on the level of topics, images and style practices. Important role is devoted ... see more
Vadim Smirnov
The article is devoted to the archetype of the “eternal feminity”, its modifications in the works of A. K. Tolstoy, and A. A. Kondratyev. This problem was formulated and developed in the works of the German Romantics and Goethe, later ... see more
Olha Chervinska,Yulia Vilchanska
Exile existential accents are not considered to be a completely focused object. There are factors in history of cultures which are easier for understanding, proceeding from the current reality: the presence of certain culture in other cultural structure w... see more
Petro Rychlo
Review of the monograph: Macenka S. P. Partytura romanu [The Novel Score]. Lviv, 2014, 528 p.