TY - JOUR N2 - The article studies such cultural phenomenon as madness in its romantic (Edgar Poe) and expressionistic (Ivan Shmelyov) interpretation. Refl ecting upon the philosophical concept introduced by Michel Foucault the author analyzes how visual-plastic and verbal experience of interpreting madness in terms of literature is realized. Verbal and literary peculiarities of creating an aesthetic image of madness within the romantic canon in Poe’s story is compared to the specific features of verbal and visual images created in the style of expressionism by Shmelyov. Techniques of literary image visualization, revealing the specific nature of interaction between different forms of literature, art, cinema peculiar to the first third of the twentieth century, are studied in the process of transition from the aesthetics of story to the aesthetics of presentation. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109430/PDF/Sl.Orient.%204-18%208-A.Stiepanowa.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109430 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 EP - 690 DO - 10.24425/slo.2018.125406 KW - phenomenon of madness KW - romantic canon KW - expressionistic style KW - visual-plastic image KW - verbal image KW - aesthetics of presentation KW - expressionist paintings KW - expressionist movie A1 - Stiepanowa, Anna PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXVII DA - 2019.01.02 T1 - "It Was" (Eto Bylo) by Ivan Shmelyov and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" by Edgar Poe: Expressionistic Interpretation of the Romantic Plot T1 - "It Was" (Eto Bylo) by Ivan Shmelyov and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" by Edgar Poe: Expressionistic Interpretation of the Romantic Plot SP - 679 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109430 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -