A paradox that should not be resolved In one of his most intriguing poems, Carlos Drummond de Andrade provides inspiration for this current volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies—Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture. The poem, called “Hino Nacional,” is a paradoxical reconstruction of variegated efforts aimed at the building of the nation. In the fina...

The paper begins with a brief overview of sense and sense-making with reference to cohesion, coherence and intertextuality. Based on a word-by-word close analysis, it charts the semantic coherence of a classical Chinese poem, Ye Yu Ji Bei by Li Shangyin, followed by a mapping of the text’s metaphorical coherence in terms of ontological metaphors. Using the poem as a case example, the paper exam...

Р. 8. Bakeyev Rinat A. Tomsk State University. THE PLOT OF M.YU. LERMONTOV’S POEM «DEMON» IN THE STRUCTURE OF F.M. DOSTOEVSKY’S NOVEL «IDIOT». In the article the communication of M.Yu. Lermontov’s poem «Demon» and F.M. Dostoevsky's novel «Idiot» at the level of characterology and plot organization is studied. In this context the analysis of five plot checkpoints of the named works of art is car...