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The textbook consists of review and monographic chapters, presents a modern view of the literary process of the XX — early XXI century, examines the work of poets, novelists, playwrights who caused an extraordinary rise in spirituality and culture of the period under consideration. The analysis of the top works of Nobel Prize laureates is given: I. Bunin, B. Pasternak, M. Sholokhov, A. Solzhenitsyn, I. Brodsky, writers- front—line poets and prose writers. Attention is paid to the work of writers of Russian emigration. The section "Modern prose" includes materials on philosophical and aesthetic searches in the works of such writers as V. Rasputin, L. Borodin, Yu. Polyakov, B. Ekimov, A. Bitov, V. Makanin, A. Kabakov, V. Tokareva, etc. It offers questions and tasks for independent work, topics of abstracts, term papers and theses, a list of bibliographic sources. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. Designed for students of higher educational institutions.

The article deals with major trends in state regulation of Russian media landscape in the period 2017-2020, which features a large amount of fake news, extremist publications and other information harmful for the people and the society. The authors analyze the key measures taken by the state in order to protect the population from such information and diminish its negative effect, define the problems and difficulties that journalists and Internet-users face, and propose ways of addressing the problems. The article focuses on legal aspects of the governmental bans and regulatory policy as, in the authors opinion, they are primary to the other measures (economic, technological, etc.). Special attention is paid to the state legislative response to such threats as fake news, suicide, drug abuse, extremist or terrorist propaganda, and foreign agents financial impact on Russian media. The research involved an analysis of media reports on the relevant issues, as well as a study of the recent changes in the legislation concerning media landscape and results of other researches in this field. The authors infer that there are two major trends in the state regulation: one is liberalization of privacy laws for media landscape, and the other is harsher punishments for spreading extremist information, fake news and other state abusive content. However, such control should not be always viewed as negative.

A review of Justin Weir’s book “The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov” is presented in a broad literary context. This allowed to actualize the evaluation of the monograph, in which the reception of mise en abyme was studied more than twenty years ago. The author analyses the meaning of the key term, gives the variants of its modern interpretation, names the most important works, devoted to the metafunctionality as a phenomenon. The discussion of literary criticism positions of the author is followed by the evaluation of literary methods used in the book. The author emphasizes J. Weir’s pioneering contribution to the problematic of autoreferencing in the historical and literary perspective.