The article is a complex case study of 23 poems presenting the image sea maid in lyric poetry K.D. Balmont. following conclusions has been made course works: tends to be frequent love and erotic lyrics linked with decadence motives; many texts are permeated characters Slavic folklore, besides, it important that some poetical ‘renditions’ famous epic songs legends from Russian, Polish Lithuanian...

[There are] one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labor of the fact collectors as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. (Oliver Wendell Ho...

abstract the present study is conducted to find various forms of times in two fictional genres “tale” and “minimalist story”, and also to disclose the factors behind the difference of the aforementioned forms in the two mentioned genres. time is represented in the levels of plot, setting, language and the images in various forms. in case of tales, due to the absence or weakness of the plot, the...