Klyukina Yu.V., Teplyakova E.K., Shipovskaya A.A.The Description of a Person’s Appearance in Russian and English Fiction: Gender Perspective // Scientific article. Journal "Transactions of the TSTU", vol. 19 , Tambov. TSTU publisher house , 2013. (pdf-file) Abstract: The paper considers male and female portrait description on the examples from Russian and English fiction written at the beginning of the XXI century. The paper focuses on stereotyping of human appearance given the gender aspect.