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• Singularity of Novel Discourse in Dostoevsky's The Idiot

  Géza Horváth

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  239

  The article examines Dostoevsky's novel discourse as a singular unity in the novel The Idiot. This discourse is dominated by the principle of indeterminacy, and the category of subjectivity is closely connected with the novel model of singularity. The aim of the article is to understand the principles of discursive unity organization in the novel on the level of its basic metaphors. These basic metaphors are "point" and "line".

• On the Functions of the Figure of Narrative Metalepsis in the Narratives of “Old Writing”

  Alexander Efimenko

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  74

  This article, based on the works of Russian writers of the “old school,” analyses the functions of the narrative figure of metalepsis. The article points out the differences between the types of metalepsis: rhetorical and ontological. It then provides an overview of the typology of metalepsis functions, which are divided into diegetic and exegetical. The former includes the functions of introducing the figure of analepsis and the figure of prolepsis into the narrative, as well as the function of transitioning from one diegetic line to another. A separate function of metalepsis is the exegetical function, which is common to both types of metalepsis.

• From the Classic Novel to the Crime Novel: A Genre Paradigm Shift in Artistic Reception

  Olga Fedunina

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  201

  The article deals with the cases of classical works completion, in which their genre nature undergoes a change. The texts are transferred from the sphere of high literature to the low one, as the continuing of the plot with the criminal line becomes the main method. The material for the analysis is “The very same Tatiana” by A. and S. Litvinovs, as well as the novel “Death Comes to Pemberley” by P.D. James. I show that one of the most relevant genres in this change of genre paradigm is “by victim investigation”, which allows to retain some recognizable items of the classic primary source.

• Trans-Disciplinary Methodology: Procreation Capital as a Basic Factor in the Viability of a Civilizational-Cultural Unit

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  Dmitrii Reut

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  345

  The main problem raised in the paper is in line with a new trend of research, conceptual programs and practical activity that can be termed “hygiene of culture”. The study is transcritical in its character and proposes to consider the category of capital generated by the economy in relation to the reproduction of the population in its structural units of civilization and as a cultural community. Trans-discipline methodology is currently being developed, which makes the work is up-to-date. It develops basic aspects of the procreation capital category, which claims to be a generalization of the human capital category. The problem is the restoration of European culture, which has been eroded by the distortion of the ideas of market economy. The reason why it is particularly urgent to find a solution to the problem is the threat posed by the demographic situation of the developed countries of European culture and the adjacent countries of the Slavic-Orthodox cultural cluster by the actual organization of housing.