Summary of the novel by Somerset Maugham "The Moon and Sixpence". Characteristics of the image of the protagonist Strickland. The reasons that Strickland ran away from her family and decided to dedicate his life to painting. The image of Mrs. Strickland.

The problem genre peculiarities of Christie’s detective stories and the innovations she brought to the development the detective genre. Agatha Christie while writing her detective stories nearly broke all the rules, violated the norm declared by R. Knox.

The image of the ship Pequod and its multinational crew as a metaphorical prototype of America. Investigation of Melville’s implicit references to the current affairs of America. Analyzing of the ambiguous relationship among the crew on board of the ship.

The fairy tale as figurative mode of communication. The consider the place of a fairy tale within the framework of fictional literature and highlight structurally-compositional model, lexico-semantic content and iconic loading of English fairy texts.

The theme of music in the novel by E.L. Doctorow "Ragtime". The novel was published in 1975 and became a bestseller. The relationship between the novel and ragtime music from the point of view of literary studies. Keyword ragtime, its origin and use.

The use of mythological images in Latin-language poetry of the Baroque era in Ukraine. Definition of appeal to the ancient heritage as an essential and necessary feature inherent in the Baroque style. Inspection of Latin-speaking Ukrainian poets.

The reveal the mythological sources of L. Deresh’s novel "The Last Love Affair of Asuia Maharaj" and N. Gaiman’s novel "American Gods", the specificity of the functioning of different mythoelements in the analyzed texts and its comparative analysis.

Study of Nabokov's dramatic work - the script based on the novel "Lolita" - from the point of view of the writer's theoretical views on the subject of an aesthetically satisfactory play. Determination of the aesthetic significance of a dramatic work.

Conducting a quantitative analysis of Vasyl Stefanyk's novels. Expanding the methods of studying the author's idiolect with the help of computer technologies and statistical tools. In-depth study of the western version of the Ukrainian language.

Consideration of the narrative structure of songs, which determines their genre characteristics. The inclusions of elements of the author's worldview and creative experience in the song text, where the symbols of human existence acquire meaning.

Narrative representation of the image of a researcher-physician in the novel by S. Lewis "Erruusmith." Genre specificity of the work as a medical novel of upbringing. Narrative realization of the competence of the doctor in the artistic discourse.

The article analyses historical and genetic origins of the genre of prose poem. It singles out the genus-genre syncretism of prose poem, the foundation of which lies in the intertwining and interpenetration of epic, dramatic and lyrical principles.

Identification of the genre of a work of art, construction of its rhetorical and cognitive models. Evaluation of the genre and style of the novel by S. Waters "The Little Stranger". Features of the narrative and mental aberrations of the narrator.

Literary reasons and expressing culture in the oral creations. Absorbing legends into the literary structure, reproducing them and creating a poem of one subject, clarification of psychological thoughts and strengthening the philosophical meaning.

The literary translation and of national literary canon trans-formation in a target culture, and, as a result, the fate of the original text in the receiving culture. The contrastive analysis literary canonhistory and in cross-cultural communication.

External literary influences and mutual influences on the development of the creative method of naturalist writers. General reception of Zola's artistic achievements in Polish criticism. Analysis of the emergence of naturalism in German literature.

Stylistic and thematic embodiments of the neomodernist paradigm in Ukrainian poetry of the late Soviet period, with peculiar attention to V. Stus, I. Kalynets, M. Vorobiov and M. Hryhoriv. The history of Modernism in 20th-century Ukrainian literature.

The study of the work of Cao Ba Quat - the great poet of medieval Vietnamese literature. Analysis of the features and socio-aesthetic significance of the poetry of Khao Ba Kuat. Highlighting the problems that the famous poet covered in his creations.

Тексты, анализируемые Б. Ньюман. Отношения между сакральным и секулярным в различных жанрах средневековой литературы. Примеры двойственности, преобразования, инверсии и конвергенции текстов. Реконструкция восприятия средневековой литературы читателем.

Creation of memoirs "Cave Antiquities" (1883), in which Leskov talked about the architecture, culture and inhabitants of Kyiv. The main analysis of the study of Leskov's text — which takes place in Kyiv — is outside of its autobiographical relevance.

Сравнение сочинения Флавия Филострата "Жизнь Аполлония Тианского" и сохранившихся Нильских сцен рассматривается репрезентация Нила эпохи правления династии Северов. Использование образа карликов в качестве художественного воплощения жителей Египта.

The study of olfactory imagery and its functions in the novel "Spies" by M. Frayn. Imagery is one of the unique techniques of writing that evokes a sensory experience with the help of descriptive language, creating a vivid picture of a character.

Analysis of folk lyric poetry, which developed during the advancement of Eastern Islamic culture through the Slavic South. Reflection of the magic and beauty of folk lyric poetry on the example of poems collected by the researcher of folk poetry Gunich.

Expressing sharp criticism of the American realities of the middle of the 20th century, the hypocrisy of people, unnecessary stereotypes of religion in the language of a 16-year-old teenager. The use of myth in the novel as a way of modeling Salinger.

The pragmatics of manipulative techniques in English literary discourse. The manipulative techniques as closely related to narrative irony. Creating the situation favourable for accomplishing the manipulator’s scheme in a short story or a novel.

Роль смеха в развитии мировой литературы. Характеристика жанра сатиры. Самообращенность как принцип модерна. Сопоставление гоголевской фразы "Чему смеетесь? над собою смеетесь!.." со стихами Горация "Quid rides? Mutato nomine, de tefabula narratur".

A. Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire a clockwork orange remains his best known novel. The illusion versus reality theme in a clockwork orange. The book writer A. Burgess contains many words in a slang called nadsat.

Description of the layers of society, which are distinguished in connection with personal responsibility and selflessness. Establishing a connection between Humenyuk's sense of the influence of artists on society and his emphasis on the type of freedom.

The analysis of the whole layer of works with different realization of the triad "author-narrator-character". Representations of introverted, juvenile-retrospective and lyrical types of the author’s "Self" in modern Russian and Uzbek short stories.

The study of the religious ideas of L. Tolstoy in the conscious opposition to the Orthodox faith in which he was brought up. Definition of Tolstoy's attitude to the Orthodox Church. Anthropology of the writer and his view of how we can understand God.