Before the bombs

In the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a scholarly paper like this highlights the futility of violence, the hideous odour of, in Hannah Arendt's fitting words, the banality of evil. Ukrainian scholars in a Ukrainian university discussing the mutual echoes of Russian and English love tropes in literature. Published one month before Putin's spiral of death and hate.

The theme of love in English and Russian literature of the 19-th century

Kalashnikova, O.; Vorova, T.; Besarab, O.; Aliseienko, O.; Riabovol, S.

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, 72, Gagarin Ave., 49010, Dnipro, Ukraine

Ad Alta, Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 11/02-XXI., p 141 (2022-01-21)

The article attempts to compare the themes of love expressed in the Russian and English literature of the 19th century, with implications on the later period literature, up to the beginning of the 21st century. In particular, works of Brontë and Byron are considered, and their reflection in the Russian literature. The study of the topic of love, its perception and embodiment by the authors of the 19th century in their novels and images, especially women's, is always relevant for research, because the theme of love constantly arises against the background of social identification and spiritual liberation of women, the antithesis of family values and social development individual, Puritanism and freethinking, debauchery. The female theme is one of the dominant in English literature of the 19th century. The relevance of the study is determined by the need for a multifaceted analysis of the artistic interpretation of the theme of love, identifying some progress in the perception and implementation of this important aspect of personality development, including a woman and society in relation to the individual and its needs. The genre, style, conflict and plot of appropriate literature works are analyzed.