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The novels of Alexei Ivanov are a noticeable phenomenon in modern Russian literary life and attract the attention of literary critics. An important role in the artistic structure of the novel “The Rebellion’s Gold” is played by folklore-mythological elements, which are the original author’s system of pseudo-folklore texts created according to the model of traditional oral folk art. The focus of our attention is the functional significance of legends and traditions, manifold on the pages of the novel by A. Ivanov. It was revealed that the author’s legends and traditions in “The Rebellion’s Gold” are distinguished by polyfunctionality. On the one hand, they are used as a means of assessing and characterizing the characters, playing the role of “folk truth,” a moral landmark with which the actions of the characters of the novel are measured. On the other hand, they are used in the process of plot formation, ensuring the dynamics of events. The most important function of the author’s “folklore” in the novel is the world-modeling. With the help of folklore texts, the novel chronotope is saturated with magical elements that are relevant in modern neorealist works. At the same time, the author’s mythology goes beyond the limits of the artistic text and transfers its world-modeling properties to the real geographical space of the Urals, which undergoes remifologization. Thus, the author’s pseudo-folklore text turns into a way of reconstructing ancient meanings and creating a new national identity in a modern cultural situation.

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The paper examines the image of Kemerovo State University in the novel by E. Grishkovets “Theater of despair. Desperate theater.” A comparative analysis reveals the specifics of KemSU relevant to the novel and its qualitative difference from other universities in Kemerovo. We can see how the student hero gets used to the University, becomes a part of it, and joins the University world. In the novel, this communion is shown as a capture, involvement, not always reflected by the hero. There are several semiotic places associated with the hero’s philological education and the creative life of students in the space of KemSU. Kemerovo State University embodies the most significant values of freedom, creativity, love, and enthusiasm in the artistic axiology of the novel. It is the place of special laws, emotional relationships, and connections, in a word, of the University spirit. The connection between the University and the theater in KemSU appears as natural and organic (“the University loved its theater”), in contrast to other universities, where the theater is an alien, fundamentally super-fluous element. In addition, the image of the theater in the novel opposes the space of an industrial city. The paper thus traces the exceptional role of the University in the emergence of love for the theater and the hero’s choice of the theater field. By its role in the novel, KemSU is literally realized as Alma mater, “nursing mother,” contributing to the creative development of the hero primarily related to the philological theme in the novel.

Рассматривается значение рецептивного поля позднего мировоззрения Л. Толстого в аспекте формирования целостного представления о творчестве писателя. В качестве фактических источников в настоящей работе привлекаются экспедиционные материалы, дневники, письма, статьи, сочинения коммунаров, проживавших на территории Кемеровской области. Рассмотрение этих материалов в русле рецептивной эстетики и дискурсивного подхода позволяет прийти к заключению, что литературное наследие сибирских коммунаров представляет собой особый дискурс, в котором концептуально осмыслены идеи толстовства.