Keyword: «lyrics»

The thesis is devoted to the study of the landscape discourse as an author’s explication picture of the world within the Russian lyrics in the late 1960-s and mid 1980-s. The literary works of A. Tarkovsky, B. Chichibabin, N. Rubtsov, Yu. Kuznetsov, A. Kushner, B. Akhmadulina, V. Sosnory, E. Schwartz are analyzed as representative figures of neotraditionalistic and neoavantgarde development vectors of the Russian poetry in the second half of the XXth century.

This article is devoted to the study of "love" concept in modern English-speaking musical culture. In order to describe the modern linguistic and cultural specifics of "love" concept, the authors selected and systematized the lexical means of expressing "love" in the lyrics of contemporary English-speaking musicians. On the basis of the semantic and contextual analysis of text fragments, the authors concluded that love is the most significant feeling and value in the life of native English speakers; the concept of love can include the broadest, sometimes contradictive meanings in the minds of English speaking people; it combines both the national and cultural specifics and more universal ideas of love, reflecting the emotional state of any person beyond time or nationality.

Nowadays, the attitude of modern high school students to the poetry of Russian symbolism is of a discognitive nature. This is due to a number of sociocultural contradictions, as well as problems associated with the information polysemy. In modern conditions, a language arts teacher faces a global task – to search and to select the necessary information using a synthesis of arts at literature lessons. The relevance of our study is determined primarily by the requirements to a language arts teacher in the conditions of constant informatization, and by the need to clarify the problem in the methodological aspect. It is necessary to use integrative and differentiated approaches studying the poetry of Russian symbolism at literature lessons in high school. Depending on the level of training of high school students, a teacher, in order to uncover the figurative system of a work that acts as a correlate to a symbol, can rely on anticipatory tools and an emotive complex, which will not work effectively in classes with a low level of training. In a specialized class, the core of the “symbol” concept can be presented by a work of Russian symbolism poetry representative, and its formation will be carried out through anticipation of the cultural and historical context of the era. The psychological characteristics of students' perception of Russian symbolists’ poetry play an important role. The purpose of the study is to work out a methodology for studying the poetry of Russian symbolism, and for the analysis of the works by I.F. Annensky in particular. This article highlights the experience of studying the poetry of Russian symbolism using the example of the analysis of I.F. Annensky’s works within the framework of methodological and literary traditions with the aim of expanding the interpretative potential of secondary and high schools students both at extracurricular reading lessons and in the context of the Federal State Educational Standard implementation. According to the author of the scientific article, the present development stage of the literature teaching methodology requires an additional theoretical and literary substantiation of problems that reflects the status of the era that continues the present and makes not only researchers but also modern school students to look into the past, which undoubtedly indicates what kind of vector was set by I.F. Annensky in a fairly short period of time, given the influence of the "last Tsarskoye Selo poet" on the formation of the philosophical concept of modernism. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the fact that the segmentation of universal features that serve to build a methodological system was performed at the compositional, interpretational, ideological-figurative levels. The practical significance of the article is due to the creation of objective methodological guidelines for the study of Russian symbolism poetry in the context of the spiritual and moral quests of the era.

The article summarizes the experience of lecturing on Western and Russian popular music for Russian and American audiences, respectively. The author traces the process of formation and development of rock music in the USA, Great Britain and the USSR and its influence on the culture of the country as a whole, as well as differences in the perception of such music.

The article discusses the theory that palindromy should be considered a separate genre of poetry. The classification of lyrical works of this type is given. The main features found in palindromic texts are described, which prove that this genre can be attributed to lyrical works.