Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


creativity

Semantic Field of Concept «Reason» in XVIII Century Aesthetic Thought (on A. Popes’ Works)

This work concerns revealing basic signatures of the concept «reason» (wit, judgment, understanding, sense etc.) and their semantic interrelations in aesthetic discourses of XVIII. The analysis is made on the basis of the works of Pope on art criticism. The author notes that in the English lexicon of the first half of XVIII century «reason» united around itself majority of concepts denoting cognitive and creative activity of a person.

The International cooperation in the sphere of culture within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The main stages of formation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are identified and dealt with. The role of world powers in the region is defined. The interaction of the SCO member states in cultural and humanitarian spheres is considered. Forms of cooperation of the Republic of Tajikistan and China in the field of culture are reflected. 

Torquato Tasso: mad poet image in the interpretations of romanticists

Italian poet of the Renaissance epoch in Europe cultural memory entrenched as pattern model of mad poet. This image was particularly relevant for Romantics. In the literature late XVIII and early XIX cent. image of Torquato Tasso tas gotten a new life and new interpretations. Fate and image of Tasso in the  Goethe's works as well as Shelley's them, and other writers of this period works used as a plot, which is convenient for reasoning about the nature of creativity, the creativity-madness relationship.