Keyword: «postmodernism»

The author realizes the demarcation of the concepts of «postmodern» and «postmodernism»; analyses of references of post-modern concepts and phenomena of the contemporary social reality; fixes the signs of inclusion of Russia in the space of postmodern.

The article is concerned with the typology of artistic concept nominations made according to the character of inner form, nomination structure, composition pl ace of nomination in the text. The author considers the features of concept verbalization in postmodernistic texts and gives the types of indirect nomination: intertextual and mask nomination.

The article deals with the problem of adequate perception of Russian postmodernism. Why do the Western readers have better comprehension of Russian postmodernists’ works than the Russian ones? Negative attitude of the Russian audience towards postmodernism is largely due to the peculiarities of its mentality associated with the "national metanarratives." Writers and artists are performing metanarratives’ deconstruction in order to overcome the binary structure of the Russian culture. They reveal our traditional "eternal" questions through unconventional means, resorting to obscene language and shocking naturalistic and physiological descriptions. This way they show that a writer does not have to pretend to be a prophet or a converter of human nature and soul. They defend freedom of creative self-expression, insisting on the perception of the artistic text as self-contained, not aimed at substituting a real life.

This study is devoted to the analysis of hyperreality in the works of Paul Oster, its association with the main themes of his prose and its place in his creative reflection. The article clarifies the concepts of postmodernism and hyperreality, describes the concept of hyperreality in the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Slavoj Zizek. The authors reveal the difference between the description and the meaning of hyperreality in the works of Oster and other postmodern writers.

The present study explores intertextual references in the novel “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell. The current research focuses on the multiple reminiscences and their role in the novel: their impact on the character development, plot, composition of the novel and on the entire message of this literary work. The study results suggest that intertextuality facilitates stylistic and semantic coherence of each of the six parts of the novel.