Abstract: The article is devoted to the poetics of fashion as it is analyzed in the monograph of a famous culture expert Inna Osinovskaya. It is noted that fashion could be created only in the kind of society that had at least some redundance of things. In her book Osinovskaya analyzes the 'vocabulary' of glossy magazines and press releases. At the same time, fashion brings forth the world of ancient myths and old fairy-tales which images have been always inwrapped with mystery. The main purpose of Inna Osinovskaya is to analyze the poetics of fashion and the system of images in fashion. In her research Osinovskaya applies the principle of historicism allowign to include numerous myths and fairy-tales in the analysis of modern fashi8on. As a result, considerable literary texts have been included in the spghere of fashion poetics. A lot of researches seem to have been written on the topic of fashion. However, thorough analysis of the topic demonstrates that there are a lot of fashion aspects that have never been studied. In particular, the graphic structure of fashion and singular poetics of fashion. Appealing to this topic, the researcher shows what a recipe book, glamour magazine and sacrifice, catwalk show and sacramental rites have in common. Osinovskaya studies typical fairy-tale characters such as the spinstress, tailor and shoemaker. She traces back the influence of these images on the poetics of modern fashion. Thus, the researcher manages to show the internal relationship between folklore and modern literature. 

Keywords: literature, holiday, things, simulacrum, cult, luxury, glamour, image, fashion, poetics

Abstract: The subject of the research is the funeral oration said by Gabriel Buzhinsky for the death of the Field Marshal Boris Sheremetyev. It is an interesting and understudied achievement of oratory prose of the first quarter of the XVIIIth century. The funeral of Boris Sheremetyev and the funeral oration devoted to him vividly demonstrate the process of developing the positive image of the 'Country's Son' in the Russian social thought of the early XVIIIth century. The image was directly associated with the idea of the 'service of the country' which was actively developed by writers, orators and Peter the First himself during that time period. Honourable burial of the Field Marshal and funeral oration filled with th eulogistic and civic pathos were tools for creating new axiology of the society: Boris Sheremetyev's will to be buried next to his son's grave in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was sacrificed for the sake of the imperor's intention to develop new values and to create grounds for funeral rites of military brass. In her research Paramonova has used the comparative historical and historical genetic research methods as well as the philological analysis of literary texts. Gabriel Buzhinsky's oratory prose is understudied in Russian literary studies. Never before The Speech for the Funeral of the Field Marshal Boris Sheremetyev has been a matter of individual analysis, thus this text is being analyzed in terms of the cultural, literary and social environments of that epoch for the first time in the academic literature. The analysis of Gabriel Buzhinsky's Funeral Oration for Boris Sheremetyev demonstrates the break point in the oratory prose of the XVIIIth century. Rhetoric religious text written by a preaching monk served secular purposes and developed actual political and social ideas. 

Keywords: patriotism, Gabriel Buzhinsky, eulogy, funeral oration, oratory, rhetoric, 18th century, Russian literature, funeral, ceremonial

Abstract: The subject of the present research is the myth structure. Modernist writers made an existential return to mythological sources, origins of human culture and precedent texts of Scriptures conveying the words of God (Logos) through human language. Thus, myth is understood as the synthesis of Logos and human language that can be found in Scriptures and Legends. The fact that humans keep returning to myths proves that myths are long lived. In a literary work myth acquires a new look and the myth structure is embeded in the text structure. Being an interpretation method, Hermeneutics views text as an impression of an event and interprets parts as being equal to the whole, thus trying to focus on the integral structure of an event described in a text. Hermeneutic analysis starts with analyzing particular language structures and leads us to understanding spiritual meanings. The main conclusion of the research is the statement that myth is a two-level system with two types of relations, paradigmatic and syntagmatic, between structural elements of a literary text. The myth scheme captures a participant of a mythological event, thus leaving only an illusion of freedom while bending to its will and truth. 

Keywords: myth, index, syntagmatic level, paradigmatic level, Hermeneutics, logos, mythology, modernism, synthesis, myth structure

Abstract: The purpose of the present research is to trace back the mechanism of developing the type of a 'hero-ideologist' in Dostoevsky's fiction after his penal servitude starting from his Notes from Underground and filling in conceptual gaps in particular novels by outlining common typical features and ideas in characters' minds. This allows to analyze Dostoevsky's literary texts written since 1865 until 1880 as a single hypertext. According to the author, the source of future ideas is the 'underground psychology' depriving the hero of the face-to-face communication and 'dreaming' that predetermines 'fanstastic' and 'contemplative' ideas. These ideas may have only two vectors: theantropic ideas that attributes human qualities and emotions to God and ideas that see God as the outward projection of a human's inward nature. While the theantropic idea implies the return of Christ's Kingdom on Earth (Millenium), the main purpose suggested by the other idea is that human can live on Earth alone without God. The transfer from romantic individualism towards a reilgious super-purpose (to save and to 'reshape' the humankind) becomes possible due to the aesthetic element of the idea which serves as some kind of the ideal of beauty and an intermediate link between religious and romantic types of thinking. The idea that God is the human's outward projection creates philosophical subgrounds for crime which can intent to be a murder, political crime, suicide, 'deicide', or patricide, which is supposed to prove the idea and thus gains the sacral meaning in these terms. The author suggests that we should call such a deed 'super-action' because it is designated to change the hero's being and surroundings. The super-action occurs to be the only action the hero-ideologist is capable of. It is the narrative climax and the only important action made by the hero in his life. In the long run, Dostoevsky's heroes-ideologists are the 'one deed heroes' but not the 'one intrigue heroes'. The antithesis to the super-action is the experience of living in paradise which followers of both ideas may have. In his research the author has used hermeneutic, historical literary and comparative typological research methods accompanied with the theological and cultural findings and data. The author's special contribution to the topic is his conclusion about the unity of all heroes-ideologists in Dostoevsky's 'Pentateuch' despite their outward difference. The author also offers a new interpretation of particular ideas presented by Dostoevsky's heroes. For the first time in the academic literature the ideology of Dostoevsky's heroes is being viewed inseparably from their psychological grounds and narrative function. The results of the research can be used to analyze Dostoevsky's fiction as part of University general and special courses as well as at secondary schools. 

Keywords: super-action, psychology, crime, theantropism, dreamer, idea, hero-ideologist, Dostoevsky’s novels, plot

Abstract: The subject of the present research is the interpretation of Dostoevsky's fiction by literary critics V. Woolf and L. Strachey. The Bloomsbury Group's interest in Dostoevsky's fiction was mainly predetermined by the overall Europe's fancy for the Russian culture and received a considerable impression of the colonial orientalism, however, signified the stage of the true acquaintance of British intellectuals with the Russian literature. Even though Woolf and Strachey had mostly the same evaluation of Dostoevsky's poetics, they had rather different opinions on the comic element of his fiction. The research methodology involves both a review of a number of works written by Woolf and Strachey and hermeneutic analysis of these texts considering historical and cultural environment that influenced the perception of Dostoevsky's fiction by the Bloomsbury Group. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that humour in Dostoevsky's fiction is an understudied topic in the European criticism of the early XXth century. By reviewing Woolf's and Strachey's articles the author of the present research draws conclusions about differences and similarities in Woolf's and Strachey's interpertation of humour in Dostoevsky's fiction and analyzes the grounds for their critical positions. 

Keywords: Ch. Dickens, British modernism in literature, F.M. Dostoevsky, L. Strachey, V. Woolf, Bloomsbury Group, G. Gissing, Restoration comedy

Abstract: The object of the research is Ivan Turgenev's novel 'Fathers and Sons' and literary critical articles, expressions and researches on the matter. The subject of the research is the main trends in studying Turgenev's novel 'Fathers and Sons' in comparative historical researches of the XIXth - XXth centuries. Ivan Turgenev's novel 'Fathers and Sons' is believed to be the peak of his creative work and thus become the target of temperamental discussions and criticism, both negative and positive. Despite the fact that critical reviews of the novel exceed the novel itself in volume, the novel is often associated with other foreign and Russian literary texts. Analyzing these comparisons, Kamil underlines that Ivan Turgenev wrote his novel being under the impression of other literary works that had left an unforgettable trace in the writer's mind. If we are to analyze most of these comparisons, we can see that the novel 'Fathers and Sons' is popular beyond all time limits. The researcher has used the historical functional method to analyze the comparisons of the novel 'Fathers and Sons' to other literary texts. Turgenev's novel 'Fathers and Sons' is being analyzed using the method of historical functional analysis of comparative researches written by different literary critics who have written about the novel. The researcher outlines differences in their opinions and moreover, focuses on the contribution of the novel 'Fathers and Sons' to the Russian and world literature. 

Keywords: Evgeniy Onegin, Oblomov, Pechorin, Pustovtsev, Fenechka, Pavel Petrovich, Bazarov, Sanin, Rainer, Hamlet

Abstract: The article reveals some structural-semantic peculiarities of the professional jargonisms frequently used by police officers. The analysis is carried out based on the material of the English, Russian and Ukrainian jargonisms extracted by the method of continuous selection from different printed and Internet sources. The thesis is substantiated that the use of professional jargonisms in the Russian legislature is conditioned by different external and internal factors. It is the sphere of juridical communication where the problem of the artificial substitution of terminological units, terminology by slang and jargon especially sharply arises. A complex method of the research has been used during the research, it includes the methods of contextual analysis, component analysis of the morphological structure of jargonisms, reconstruction of word-formative models of the lexical units in question, and quantitative processing of data. Some common and distinctive structural, morphological and word-formative peculiarities of lexical units of this class are singled out as a result of the comparative analysis of the juridical jargon in the English, Russian and Ukrainian languages. It is determined that in terms of their structure one- and two-component juridical jargonisms prevail. A large amount of multicomponent jargon units has some characteristics of phraseological units.

Keywords: semantic model, translation conformity, translation equivalent, terminological system, term, thematic group, juridical jargon, jargonism, jargon, metaphor

Abstract: The subject of the research is the arts metaphysics of Josephin Peladan as a remarkable representative of the mysticism branch of the French objective symbolism, in particular, its Neo-Platonist Christian movement. Special attention is paid to his polemics with Lev Tolstoy, his analysis of Dante's creative work, ancient and modern dramaturgy and theatre. In her research Mankovskaya also analyzes Peladan's ideas about the relationship between art and religion, artistic creativity, aesthetic contemplation and pleasure, ideals of beauty, tragic, comic, aesthetic ideals, artisticity, essence of an artistic image, symbolization in art and anagogic mission of art. Such a great variety of aspects covered by the present research created the need to apply a number of methodological approaches such as art analysis, philosophical aesthetic approach, comparative and interdisciplinary methods. The main conclusions of the research is that Peladan's three hypostases as a symbolist, neoclassicist and esoteric create a paradoxical but organic unity. His thoughts on the nature of esoterics, particular artistic types and genres have one thing in common which is the idea of beauty, absolute ideal, undying values, spiritual and artistic components of art. Special contribution made by the author to the analysis of the topic is that she uses only original materials in her research. Mankovskaya introduces aspects and works of French symbolism that have never been studied before. Josephin Peladan's arts metaphysics is studied for the first time in the Russian academic literature, too. 

Keywords: articity, ideal, beauty, artist, theatre, literature, art, mysticism, symbolism, symbolyzation