When two major studies on the same thematic appear roughly simultaneously, integrating not only their authors’ respective careers but the revisions of a whole generation of scholarship, the moment cries out for stock-taking, both substantively and methodologically. At a minimum, we need to recognize the key theses of our two protagonists and the frameworks they erect to uphold them. But we need...

deconstruction demonstrate his fundamental law or affect Maxwell's account of electromagnetic induction? These are small potatoes, however, when you consider that "electrical experiments could mold politics as much as politics did electricity." Do not think that the meaning of this equality is that neither affected the other. No sirree. "Replacing the Newtonian philosophy with the electrical th...

The author of the article aims to explain world literature through such concepts as the concept of Hamletism and the character of Hamlet in relation to selected works of Russian Romanticism, in particular, the beginning of realism and symbolism as an outstanding current of the Silver Age. Subject of a careful comparative analysis is the works of Mikhail Lermontov ("Demon" and "Ma...