Archetypes in Literatures and Cultures

Contents: Rahilya Geybullayeva: From Archetypal Situation to Archetypised Words or Words as a Unit of Semantic Reinterpretations - Kamal Abdullayev: Similarities in World Literature. Azerbaijani and Greek Epics (toward Invariants) - Izabella Horvath: Eurasian Folksong Texts as Carriers of Poetic Archetype - Aslan Mamedly: Scientific Discourse of Post-Totalitarian Regimes. Fears and Hopes - Simon Sorgenfrei: Renditions of Rumi in Europe and North America - Tatiana Megrelishvili: Archetype of the Creator. The Semantics of Cultural Universals of the East (Mikhail Lermontov's "Ashik-Kerib") - Angelina Saule: Desiring the Oriental "Other" in the Persian Poems of Velimir Klebnikov - Gorkhmaz Guliyev: Hamlet and Iskandar. The Breakdown of the Persona Archetype as a Condition for Identity Formation - Gonul Bakay: Faustus as Archetype - Mamed Godjaev: Archetype of the Russian Man in Dostoyevsky's Work - Khuraman Mursalieva: Gods Don't Talk, Poets Talk instead of Them (Archetype of Poet) - Sevinj Bakish: Archetype and Symbol of a Wise Old Man - Saddik M.Gohar: The Role of Translation in the Integration of Western/Christian Archetypes in Contemporary Arabic - Islamic Literature - Khalida Isa-zada: Symbols and Archetypes as Foundation of Phraseological Units in Languages - Hatice Övgü Tüzün: Dostoevsky's Underground Man as a Literary Archetype in Postmodern Literature - Elnare Garagyezova: The Mill Archetype in Literature - Gunay Garayeva: Symbolization of Celestial Bodies as an Archetype in the Azerbaijani New Period Poetry - Anuar Galiev: Archetypes of Turkic Culture - Irina Modebadze/Tamar Tsitsishvili: Artistic Personification of Opposites: Analyses of "Medea" by Sandro Shanshiashvili - Yordan Lyutskanov: The Holy Grail, Whore of Babylon (or Rome), Mother Earth, and the Purifying World Conflagration in the Works of Nikolay and Lev Gumilyov - Igor Yankov/Larisa Piskunova: The Archetype of Construction Sacrifice in the Formation of a City's Identity. From a "City-Factory"

Rahilya Geybullayeva is Professor and Head of the Department of Azerbaijani Literature at Baku Slavic University. She holds a PhD from Moscow State University, served as Visiting Professor as Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, as UNESCO Scholar at the University of London and as Carnegie Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.