Temple-related Poetics of Goncharov’s Meta-Novel

The article justifies the representation of Goncharov’s temple-related tetralogy, which includes “A Common Story”, “Oblomov”, “The Precipice” and “Frigate ‘Pallada’”. Temple-related and liturgic principles of the tetralogy are defined as the measure of its structural and conceptual integrity. Paths of heroes in the novels under discussion lie within the “temple-related model” and should be evaluated in line with the axiology of this model. The storyline associated with Alexander Aduev is considered as “vulgar travel”, “pseudo-pilgrimage” to Saint-Petersburg, the city which became “Russian Europe”. The novel “Frigate ‘Pallada’” focuses on the peculiar “narrative” status of the hero, and this focus allows to combine “inner” and “extra” storylines. The novel highlights certain changes in paths of hero who moves backward to “the great Motherland” instead of moving forward to “the progress”. Concerning the novel “Oblomov”, one can notice that this writing justifies the point associated with “dynamics” of the hero’s “interior life” who travels inside and reorients himself from the West to the East. The article considers “The Precipice” (“Obryv”) as Goncharov’s most “pedalogical” novel with its focus on “Russian brinks”. Boris Raisky ran the gamut from an amateur artist to the artist — “man of the soil”. The novel emphasizes the significance of territories of “provincial Russia” struggling to “heal misguided paths” and to eliminate “precipices” of Russian History.

The Mordovian epos «Mastorava» by A. Sharonov (to the issue about typological features of book form of epos of the Finno-Ugric peoples)

Introduction: the article is devoted to the Erzya-Moksha epos «Mastorava» in terms of the originality of its plot, composition, set of the characters, ideological content and folklorism in the context of problem of typological factors of book form of epos of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Objective: to study the epos «Mastorava» through the prism of its content and structure, with the identification of poetic and ideological originality. Research materials: the text of the epos «Mastorava» (2020), namely, its five parts («The Age of the Gods», «The Ancient Age», «The Age of Tyushtyan», «The Age of Enemies», «The New Age») considered from the point of view of their artistic unity, as well as the scientific works devoted to the analysis of the work. Results and novelty of the research: analysis of the «Mastorava» in the considered aspect shows that the epos was created on the basis of folklore myths, epic songs and legends reproducing the mythological, epic and historical periods in the development of the Mordovian ethnos; the time frames covers various stages of sociocultural development of the people. The «Mastorava» is original in terms of content and form, however it has much in common with the epic poetry of the Finno-Ugric peoples. For the first time, the authors based on the analysis of the artistic structure of the new edition (2020) of the epos and the identification of the conceptual integrity of the text prove that A. M. Sharonov’s «Mastorava» has typological features of the book forms of the Finno-Ugric epos.

Conceptual Integrity Without Concepts

This paper attempts to analyze the theoretical consequences for conceptual integrity in software engineering, if concepts do not exist altogether. As weird as it might sound, doubts on the existence of concepts have been recently cast by several distinguished philosophers of mind, with compelling arguments. It is commonly asserted that one of the most crucial factors in software design is the adoption of consistent and appropriate concepts. This widespread assumption, underlying several researches in software engineering, tacitly postulates the very existence of concepts. How the integrity of a software design may survive without concepts, at least in its traditional account, is the matter explored in this paper. We identified several practical cases of software that uses design ideas referred by terms subsuming a heterogeneity of cognitive assets. These design ideas are therefore better qualified — in technical terms — as unicepts. This notwithstanding, in the cases analyzed, all software maintained a design integrity that made them highly successful, once users become acquainted with the unusual semantic sphere of the unicept at play.