Keyword: «symbolics»

The article dwells on the problem of life of wandering in the Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century and the second half of the 20th century. It is proved that there is dialogical correlation between the novel «Rudin» by I.S. Turgenev and «Ark for uninvited» by V. E. Maximov, connected with the authors reference to the biblical image of the Wandering Jew and their consideration of its meaning for the revelation of problems and ideas of the novel contents.

The paper analyses intertext inclusions from the Silver age poets’ creative work and “red poets” images into L. Ulitskaya’s and Z.Prilepin’s novels. The definition of the author’s position is regarded as the main poetic function of intertext items. It is proved that in the work of both writers “red” poets’ images make for reveal-ing the main idea of the novels delineating characters’ function as well as disclosing the function of peculiar historical epochs: the post-revolutionary 1920s in Z. Prilepin’s novel and the Post-Stalin 1960s-1980s in L.Ulitskaya’s one; intertext items from I. Annensky, K. Balmont, A.Blok, V. Bryusov, S.Esenin, K. Sluchev-sky, F.Sologub and others help to define the mentality of Russian character. The Silver age poetry is con-cluded to be conceptual for the novels Green Marquee and Abode owing to the authors’ comprehension of Russian literature-based mental outlook which doesn’t always have creative spiritual sense.

This article deals with the experience of studying the names of clothing, which are Church Slavonic by origin, on the example of Holy Scripture texts. It is clarified, in which way clothing being a reflection of the social status of a person, becomes a spiritually meaningful sign. The appearance of the symbolic meaning of clothing names is observed. Further it is determined, in which way symbolic meaning becoming a part of the cognitive picture of the world makes its influence on the language consciousness.