The article is devoted to an analysis of the image of Jennie Gerhardt – the main character of Theodore Dreiser’s novel of the same name (1911) – in the context of the writer’s artistic interpretation of the concept of the “ideal woman.” The focus is on the contrasting comparison of Jenny with another iconic heroine of Dreiser’s, Caroline Meeber (from “Sister Carrie”): while Carrie embodies the type of a “predator” and a careerist focused on outward beauty and social success, Jenny is portrayed as her antithesis – an image endowed with traits of mercy, self‑sacrifice, inner purity, and altruism, and is closer to the positive characters of the romantic tradition.
The work reveals how, using the principle of contrast and other artistic techniques, Dreiser shows the difference in the motivation and value systems of the heroines. At the same time, the author of the article emphasizes that, while remaining true to the realistic method, Dreiser does not create an absolutely flawless image.
The article examines the representation of authoritarian and conformist
characters in European and American cinema of the second half of the twenti-
eth century, focusing on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist, Louis Malle’s
Lacombe Lucien, and Woody Allen’s Zelig. The analysis takes its starting
point from Fyodor Dos...
S. Voloshina· RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series Ph...· 0 citations
In the article Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent” (1843) is analysed through the lens of mythological criticism. Although this text has been the subject of considerable scholarly analysis, much of the focus has centered on its allegorical content and the central image of a man harboring a snak...
Elmira V. Vasileva· Studia litteraria· 0 citations
The article examines the transformation of Merlin’s image, as an embodiment of the Wise Old Man archetype in Thomas Berger’s postmodern novel “Arthur Rex”, in comparison with its canonical representation in Thomas Malory’s late 15th-century work. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing interest of philo...
Yu. I. Shcherbinina· Philology and Culture· 0 citations
This article offers an intellectual-historical reappraisal of Barry J. Faulk’s Music Hall & Modernity (2004), critically examining how the discursive infrastructure of modernity surrounding the late-Victorian music hall absorbed the autonomous public sphere of the working class. To this end, this article extends Faulk’...
Min-Kyoung Lee· Society for the Study of Ear...· 0 citations
The article provides the detailed analysis of L.N. Tolstoy’s youthful philosophical fragments dating from 1847–1849; The author proves that they reflected the young Tolstoy’s fascination with the philosophy of I.G. Fichte, under whose influence he accepted the romantic concept of higher (outstanding, great) personaliti...
: Somerset Maugham is one of the most influential writers in the history of 20th-century English literature. His novel The Moon and Sixpence has attracted widespread attention and praise since its publication in 1919. This paper intends to analyze the two female characters Mrs. Strickland and Blanche Stroeve in the nov...
Yu-Dan Wan· Lecture Notes on Language an...· 0 citations
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