The term ›regionalism‹ is en vogue, but whereas fashion normally emanates from Paris, in this case the model is probably the American slogan, »small is beautiful«. The Dictionary of the Slovene Literary Language (Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika) lists three meanings of ›regionalism‹: 1. political, »an attribute of a specific area or region referring to its particular economic, socio-politic...

This case report describes the variations in visual performance of a subject with moderate keratoconus with changes in front surface eccentricities (FSEs) of PROSE (Prosthetic Replacement of Ocular Surface Ecosystem). PROSE device of 0.6 FSE provided maximum visual improvement and reduction in Higher Order Aberrations (HOAs) compared to 0, 0.3 and 0.8 FSEs in this clinical condition.

The article discusses the main anthropological ideas in diaspore’s prose context of existing traditions and postmodern stylistic characteristics. It also highlights characteristic features Ukrainian diaspora’s prose. latter contains views on literary character as personality, well world place humans it. Importantly, research follows concepts Christian theology, superhuman, rationalism, postmode...

The article is devoted to the little-studied phenomenon of «women’s» prose 1850s — most mature period in creative evolution female writers. authors’ attention focused on issue emergence this phenomenon, as well problem artistic originality works fictional women. study attempts characterize authors genre aspect. corpus studied may be particular scientific interest many them have not been reprint...

The aim. suggested literary critic research traces the influence of Vasyl Stefanyk’s creative experience upon shaping worldview, aesthetical grounds Yurii Stanynets (1906-1994), a prose writer from Zakarpattia. On rich literary-fictional material, task is set to analyse writer’s works that came out in different periods his life and reveal “lessons master psychological prose” planes Stanynets’s ...

The features of the composition of small prose by L. Ulitskaya (on the example of the stories "Bronka", "Happy", "Poor Relatives") are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the features of picturing time in stories, to the past which is sometimes more important for understanding the motives and characters of L. Ulitskaya’s heroes than the present and even...

The article is devoted to the study of work Tomsk science fiction writer, member Union Writers USSR Viktor Dmitrievich Kolupaev (1936-2001). purpose identify features representation category space and time in poetics writer's short prose based on novella "Dzyapiki" (1989). theoretical basis research was made up works consideration spatio-temporal organization literary text works. practical sign...

The mathematical distinction between prose and verse may be detected in writings that are not apparently lineated, for example in T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton, and Jim Crace’s Quarantine. In this paper we offer comments on appropriate statistical methods for such work, and also on the nature of formal innovation in these two texts. Additional remarks are made on the roots of lineation as a metric...