Abstract: The object of the research is the creative writing of Osip Senkevsky. The subject of the research is the means of transformation of the laughter word in the literary consciousness of the 1830s. The aim of the research is to analyze peculiarities of the narrative strategy used by Senkovsky, and his intention to create the parodic game world. Dubrovskaya focuseds on the analysis of the laughter word in his words that he wrote under the name of Baron Brombeus. Dubrovskaya demonstrates that the creative experience of Brombeus relates to both the polemic attacks of the writer against the established laughter word in writings of his contemporaries (Alexander Pushkin and Nikolay Gogol) as well as his orientation at parodic comic discoveries of the European literature (starting since the French enlightenment and Laurence Sterne and till the late period of German romanticism). The methodological basis of the research implies the concept of the laughter word offered by M. Bakhtin. In his researches M. Bakhtin, in fact, created the theory of the laughter word that later became an important tool for reserch of the comic discourse of the Russian and foreign literature. Senkovsky-Brombeus' laughter word is of satiric, epigrammatic nature and, on the one hand, serves as the means of polemics, satire and paradoy, and, on the other hand, aimed at entertaining the reading audience. The results of the research demonstrate that there is a shift in accents in a comic writing as well as an entertaining laughter register of the discourse. The research results also allow to describe the process of transformation of the laughter word in the literary consciousness of that period. 

Keywords: carnival tradition, transformation, Pushkin, Bakhtin, literary consciousness, Baron Brombeus, Senkovsky, laughter discourse, laughter, entertaining laugher register of the discourse

Abstract: This is the extract from Raymond Smullyan’s book ‘This Book Needs No Title: A Budget of Living Paradoxes’.

Keywords: philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, paradox, universe, planet, logic.

Abstract: Studying neurotic and psychopathological states of human for many centuries has created the stereotype that Adam’s descendant is a rather sickly and defective person. It is especially strange when psychiatric terms are used for description of one’s behavior which is quite far from being pathological.

Keywords: literature, philology, psychiatry, norm, pathology, body, identification, behavior, degeneration, insanity.