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...

Achalasia is generally accepted as a condition associated with an increased risk for developing esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. In our paper, we introduced an achalasia patient combined with synchronous early esophageal neoplasms. We performed a combination of concurrent endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). No complications other than postoperative p...

resistance poem is a committed poem which is not at the service of despotic ruling system interests and its desires and expresses all issues with explicit language without consideration of innovation and fantasy. there is no complexity in the resistance poem. it does not specify truth and  does not inform its audience unless the political suffrage dominate the poem then the poet’s goals are exp...