scholarly journals Sources and Literary Context of Dostoevsky’s Novel "Poor Folk"

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 7-31
Author(s):  
Valentina E. Vetlovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World View ◽  
Sentimental Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Single Motif ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Definition Of

The article considers literary self-definition of Fyodor Dostoevsky at the starting point of his career as a writer. Its purpose is to reveal connections of the young author with contemporary writers and his place in the literary process on the basis of specific texts. The article continues the research presented in two articles published in 2013 and examines a wider range of texts related to Dostoevsky’s first novel, Poor Folk. By applying the principles of comparative analysis to the repeated narrative elements, the author of the article shows that Mikhail Voskresensky’s story “Zamoskvoretskie Tereza i Faldoni” (1843), which is considered to be parodied in Poor Folk, has just one common feature with Dostoevsky's novel: names of one main and one secondary character. The names refer to a popular sentimental novel by Nicolas Germain Léonard (1783), retold with disapproval by N. M. Karamzin, while Voskresensky’s story was unworthy even of caricature for the insignificance of its content and its poetics. It should also be noted that not a single motif that exclusively belongs to this story was reproduced by Dostoevsky at any time later. The situation is quite different in the case of Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Conspirators (Le Chevalier d’Harmental), published in a newspaper in 1841–1842 and as a separate edition in 1843. The novel’s plot twists, main characters, some features of their personalities and some details regarding what happens to them are reflected in Poor Folk. But this was not done for reasons of parody. Dostoevsky chose the novel by the famous Frenchman only to promote his own world view and the new principles of art – the nascent realism with its unadorned “truth of life”, harsh and often tragic reality in contrast to the benevolent romanticism

scholarly journals The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Current State of Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 196-314
Author(s):  
Valentina V. Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Current State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Modified Formula

The review analyses the current state of research of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent. The starting point is the tradition of academic commentaries to the text, which allowed achievements in textual criticism during the 1960-1970s. Today we are obviously facing a new turn in both textual studies and commentaries to the novel. The main trends indicate that researchers aim at discovering the spiritual meaning of The Adolescent, its poetics, and sources. Nevertheless, contemporary surveys are characterized by a diversity of academic discourses, originated from psychology, history, cultural studies, linguistics, etc. In the field of literary studies, both Russian and foreign works show a rising interest in the poetics and the analysis of the role of the Christian tradition in the novel. Traditionally, the novel is studied within the prospective Dostoevsky’s Five great works. Monographs reveal the artistic success and unique character of The Adolescent and integrate it into the meta-text of Dostoevsky’s life and oeuvre, giving a variety of typological reasons. Academic research maintains a typological and comparative-historical approach to this novel, though its literary context has not significantly expanded. A substantial aspect of Dostoevsky’s studies is dedicated to the narratology of The Adolescent and its genre features; the traditional definition of the book as a Bildungsroman has now gained a new modified formula. The article pays close attention to the few existing monographs that concentrate on The Adolescent. The article not only provides a review that helps understand how the novel is studied today but outlines prospects of research. Dostoevsky’s novel is organized as a multilayer reality. Therefore, it requires a complex approach - biographical, historical, literary, and mythopoetic (broadly speaking) – in order to allow a full reception of the novel The Adolescent, especially in the mass culture.

scholarly journals The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Current State of Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 196-214
Author(s):  
Valentina V. Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Current State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Modified Formula

The review analyses the current state of research of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent. The starting point is the tradition of academic commentaries to the text, which allowed achievements in textual criticism during the 1960-1970s. Today we are obviously facing a new turn in both textual studies and commentaries to the novel. The main trends indicate that researchers aim at discovering the spiritual meaning of The Adolescent, its poetics, and sources. Nevertheless, contemporary surveys are characterized by a diversity of academic discourses, originated from psychology, history, cultural studies, linguistics, etc. In the field of literary studies, both Russian and foreign works show a rising interest in the poetics and the analysis of the role of the Christian tradition in the novel. Traditionally, the novel is studied within the prospective Dostoevsky’s Five great works. Monographs reveal the artistic success and unique character of The Adolescent and integrate it into the meta-text of Dostoevsky’s life and oeuvre, giving a variety of typological reasons. Academic research maintains a typological and comparative-historical approach to this novel, though its literary context has not significantly expanded. A substantial aspect of Dostoevsky’s studies is dedicated to the narratology of The Adolescent and its genre features; the traditional definition of the book as a Bildungsroman has now gained a new modified formula. The article pays close attention to the few existing monographs that concentrate on The Adolescent. The article not only provides a review that helps understand how the novel is studied today but outlines prospects of research. Dostoevsky’s novel is organized as a multilayer reality. Therefore, it requires a complex approach - biographical, historical, literary, and mythopoetic (broadly speaking) – in order to allow a full reception of the novel The Adolescent, especially in the mass culture.

scholarly journals Still Ekphrasis? Visual and Non-Visual Art in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Jarosław Hetman
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Contemporary Novels ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

<p>The article explores the ancient notion of ekphrasis in an attempt to redefine it and to adjust it to the requirements of the contemporary literary and artistic landscape. An overview of the transformations in the world of art in the 20<sup>th</sup> century allows us to adjust our understanding of what art is today and to examine its existence within the literary context. In light of the above, I postulate a broadening of the definition of ekphrasis so as to include not only painting and sculpture on the one side, and poetry on the other, but also to open it up to less conventional forms of artistic expression, and allow for its use in reference to prose. In order to illustrate its relevance to the novel, I have conducted a study of three contemporary novels – John Banville’s <em>Athena</em>, Kurt Vonnegut’s <em>Bluebeard</em> and Don DeLillo’s <em>Mao II </em>– in order to uncover the innovative ways in which novelists nowadays use ekphrasis to reinvigorate long prose.</p>

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the usage of concept "hospitality" in the phraseological units of English, Russian and Uzbek languages on the basis of the English translation of the novel “Silence” by S.Ahmad

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1640-1648
Author(s):  
Kholmuradova Leyla Eshkuvvatovna ◽  
Maya Sultanova Tuychievna ◽  
Sharofova Diyora Furkatovna ◽  
Mamarizaeva Farangiz Zohidjon Qizi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Life Events ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lexical Unit ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Process

At present, in connection with globalization, the language is especially interested in cross-cultural understanding. Today, the interest in the study of original and translations of the text "Silence" in the world literary process is attracting the attention of orientalists and translators around the world. The scientific study of the content and phrase logical aspects of the novel "Silence" by world scholars, such as the creative personality, the writer's creative method, artistic skills, allows to identify and evaluate the features of the development of literature. According to structure of phrases, a phrase is a lexical unit that is equivalent to a sentence, semantically whole, has a generalized meaning, is not created in the speech process, but is ready to be introduced into the speech. According to the linguist Mamatov, phrases are a separate unit of language, which, according to their structure, is a free connection or equivalent to a sentence, fully or partially semantically reconstructed figurative, stable phrases. Phrases are specific figurative expressions of people's conclusions based on observation of life events, assessment of acceptable and unacceptable actions in society, generalization of life experiences. Writers are often not content to select and use phrases appropriate to the purpose of the image.

scholarly journals Expanding the Meaning of the Term “Document” as a Possible Factor of Reconsideration of the Objects of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics. 2. Old Definitions of the Objects of “Metrices” in the Context of the New Definition of the Term “Document”

2020 ◽  
pp. 226-242
Author(s):  
V. S. Lazarev
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Broad Interpretation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Scientific Fields

Introduction. In the first part of the article, an attempt was made to trace some of the evolution of the concept of a “document”, which is now understood as any material object that can be used to obtain the information necessary for a person. In the second part, assuming that such an interpretation of the concept of a “document” is fruitful for possible reconsideration of viewpoints on the objects of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics, a number of definitions of the objects of these three “metrices” have been examined with a speculative “inlining” the new meaning of the term “document” to the definitions of objects.Materials and methods. Comparative analysis of the viewpoints of the objects of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics that were expressed in some examples of definitions of these scientific fields; speculative “inlining” the new meaning of the term “document” in them; consideration the meanings of the objects of “metrices” altered as a result of the mentioned “inlining”.Results. It is shown how noticeably the understanding of the objects of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics can be revised as the result of the use of the updated “broad” interpretation of the concept of a “document” and how much the interpretations of the objects of bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics can be even closer in their meanings than previously was recognized.Discussion and conclusion. Such a comparative analysis of the objects of the “metrices” might be helpful for identifying both similarities and differences among bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. This is important, since the awareness of them is an obvious starting point for the mutual enrichment of “metrices” with knowledge and concepts. A more complete and detailed analysis of representations of the objects of the “metrices” in comparison with the updated “broad” interpretation of the concept of the “document”, as well as a comparison of the methodological components of “metrices” is the subject of further research.

scholarly journals The drama and the libretto "The Storm" by Alexander Ostrovsky: a historical plan in the image of the patriarchal world

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Nadezhda G. Mikhnovets
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the problem of studying the historiosophical views of Alexander Ostrovsky. The author examines it on the material of two works by the playwright written in different years: the drama "The Storm" and the libretto "The Storm". The article provides a comparative analysis of these works and substantiates the provision that they are in complementary relations. The author comes to the conclusion that Alexander Ostrovsky as a librettist restores the character of public and private life of the heroes of the 17th century, consistently removing the themes indicating the crisis state of the patriarchal world in the mid 19th century. The article shows that at the same time, the playwright reveals the causes of this crisis. The author points out the convergence between the libretto "The Storm" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as the book "The History of a Town" by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. The study helps clarify the historical and cultural realities of the two works of the same name by Alexander Ostrovsky and deepen their interpretations, which is topical in the context of the preparation of his Complete works and letters to publish.

scholarly journals Ontology of nature in the novel by P. S. Bakhlykov «The Bear Creek Valley» in the context of Russian «village prose» of the ХХ century

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-498
Author(s):  
I. M. Kulikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Ontological Dimension ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Bear Creek

Introduction: the article is devoted to the consideration of the formal and content aspects of the novel by the Yugra prose writer P. S. Bakhlykov «The Bear Creek Valley» in the aspect of the researched problem. Objective: definition of originality in the writer’s solution of the problem «man and nature» in its ontological dimension considered in the context of the literary process of the last third of the XX century. Research materials: the scientific, critical, reference literature on the work by P. Bakhlykov and the problems of the modern literary process is studied. The basis of the study is the text of the novel «The Bear Creek Valley». Results and novelty of the research: the main results of the research are related to the identification of the specifics of artistic disclosure in the work by P. Bakhlykov of the ontological nature of the problem «man and nature» determined by his philosophical views. Scientific novelty is due to the identification of features of refraction in the text space of the novel of stylistic features of «village prose»: this is the first attempt to characterize the novel by P. Bakhlykov.

scholarly journals SENTIMENTALIST CODE IN THE NOVEL ‘SERОTONIN’ BY M. HOUELLEBECQ

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Inga V. Suslova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Private Person ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Attentive Reader

The article analyzes sentimentalist origins in the poetics of the novel Serotonin (2019) by M. Houellebecq. It considers realization of the sentimentalism traditions in the literature process at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries; the analysis is based on the studies of Russian and foreign scholars. The revival of interest in the inner world of a private person, sincerity of the words is considered to be one of the main reasons for developing ‘new sentimentality’. The research is focused on J. J. Rousseau’s traditions in sentimentalism. The paper provides a comparative analysis of the novel under study and autobiographic works by J. J. Rousseau such as The Confessions (Les Confessions, 1765–1770) and Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire, 1776–1778). The starting point of the plot in both Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Rousseau and Serotonin by Houellebecq is the narrator’s statement of his absolute solitude and premonition of his coming death. In such tragic circumstances every person tries to say the last words about themselves. In both novels the theme of writing is of great importance and the narrator’s own personality and destiny become an object of creative reflection. The main purpose of the narrator in Reveries of the Solitary Walker is to tell the truth about himself to himself. There is no companion in the person of a compassionate reader, which is important to the sentimentalist tradition, in the Rousseau’s novel. The character of narrator in the novel by Houellebecq is focused on describing the circumstances which led him to the failure in the fight for survival. That is why his life ends in loneliness, sadness and suffering. Reflecting upon his own life, he offers the attentive reader to fill the gaps and establish a casual connection. The theme of memory is realized in relation to the process of self-description. In the Rousseau’s novel, the narrator’s diving into himself and writing about himself are done during his solitude walks full of dreaming and contemplation of nature, which helps him find peace and quiet. The Houellebecq‘s narrator compares his own experience with that of the Rousseau’s character and admits the mediocrity and insignificance of his own existence. He is running on a sentimental journey to the places of the lost love and friendship but he is incapable of reaching unity with nature, which could be salvation for him. His lot is despair. Reproducing a significant number of motifs and images used by Rousseau in The Confession and Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Houellebecq reflects on the human and eternal values via the dialogue.

scholarly journals Andrey Mytishchev and Leon Ploshovsky as expressers of the type of hero without dogma in the prose of M. V. Krestovskaya and G. S Sienkiewicz

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
Anna Kharitonova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Literary Images ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
First Time

This article reviews the type of hero typical to the literature of the turn of the XIX &ndash; XX centuries and refers to a little-studied storyline from the history of Russian-European ties of this period. In the center of author&rsquo;s attention are two literary works: the novel by the Polish classic G. Sienkiewicz &ldquo;Without Dogma&rdquo; (1890) and the novella &ldquo;Confessions of Mytishchev&rdquo; (1901) by almost forgotten Russian writer M. V. Krestovskaya, who was greatly impressed by the book of her contemporary. Both works contain a number of parallels on compositional level, means of narration and the plot itself, but the root of their correlation is attention to a new type of European person, born at the end of the century, and suffering from its &ldquo;illnesses&rdquo;. Comparative analysis is conducted on protagonists of the literary works of Sienkiewicz and Krestovskaya &ndash; Leon Ploshovsky and Andrey Mytishchev &ndash; as representatives of the type of hero-skeptic, hero without dogma, whose appearance in the literature became an organic stage in evolution of the hero-individualist. The time has raised its question, namely on the need to be guided by moral values and follow some dogmas. These works of the Russian and Polish literature of the turn of the XIX &ndash; XX centuries are put a single historical and literary context for the first time, and their main characters are viewed as expressers of the European person of that period. Reference of the modern audience to these literary images allows better understanding cultural, historical, philosophical and social prerequisites for the emergence of those who had similar worldview in the late XIX &ndash; early XX century. This defines the novelty and relevance of this research.

The Winning Formula. Convenții și stereotipuri ale romanului haiducesc în Mina haiduceasa. Fata codrilor de George Baronzi

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Dragoș Varga
Keyword(s):  
Female Character ◽  
Sentimental Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Literary Period

The article aims to identify some of the peculiarities of the XIXth century outlaw novel in relation to the conventions and the stereotypes of the adventure novel, focusing on George Baronzi’s novel, Mina the Outlaw. The Girl of the Forests, an agreeable novel in spite of several narrative clumsiness. The novelty comes from the fact that the novel proposes a female character in the role of the hero, somehow accumulating the conventions and some narrative invariants specific to the outlaw novel, but also to the sentimental novel, the plot having as a starting point a love story. The novel is, therefore, chracterized by a certain naivity specific to the subgenre and to the literary period to which it belongs, but the author cannot be blamed for the lack of a certain sense of suspense and proliferation of adventures, by moving from one conflict to another, by changing the setting of the action thus activating its narrative potential.

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