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This paper presents a method of building a 3D model of the geographic location described in Tana French’s novel Faithful Place. Its action is set in Faithful Place, an invented Dublin working-class neighbourhood, based on the street existing in the past and moved to a different area of the city. It can be defined as M. Foucault’s heterotopia and is central to the novel. The work uses the methodology of literary cartography, an interdisciplinary research area developing verifiable techniques for mapping literary spaces, complementing it with 3D modelling. The analysis is performed in three steps. First, the prototype of the fictitious street is identified using the historic map of Dublin. Then, all geographic information from the novel is put on the map to make a conclusion about the most probable location of fictional Faithful Place. Last, a 3D model of the location is built that generates new knowledge about the literary space featured in Faithful Place and enhances the message of the novel.

This article outlines the content of an elective university course designed for domestic and international students, combining language and international relations. The course is intended to make students more sensitive to the linguistic intricacies of a specialist variety of English. The focus is on its written modes, particularly writing and reading academic (professional) texts dealing with complex foreign policy issues. As a result, students are expected to enhance their academic writing skills. The linguistic component of the course is backed up with a review of world affairs. Conversely, the field of international relations theory is enriched by a systematic study of language effects observed in the respective discourse. The interdisciplinarity of this enterprise benefits students with different academic and cultural backgrounds.

The main idea of this work was to study gender representations in the English “Ballad of Tam Lin”, the Russian fairy tale “Finist the Bright Falcon” and the Turkish tale “Patience-Stone” through the analysis of language units with implicit gender semantics. These folklore narratives have important similarities featuring the female protagonist as the main plot driver and possessor of cultural wisdom. They follow the “female savior” scenario, depicting women as decisive and challenging the traditional role of a decorative victim.