The storyline and subject in A. S. Pushkin’s poetics
- Authors: Stroganov M.V1,2
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Affiliations:
- A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- The Kosygin State University of Russia
- Issue: Vol 17, No 2 (2019)
- Pages: 86-110
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9479/article/view/293022
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/j9.art.2019.6582
- ID: 293022
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Abstract
Pushkin’s works of different genres have three permanent characteristics. The first one resides in the contraposition of the completeness or incompleteness of the text; the second one concerns a subordinate position of the storyline in relation to the subject (the completeness or incompleteness of the writing) and the third particularity is an open composition. All the three features are three sides of the unique law of Pushkin’s poetics, which manifested a new stage in the development of historicism in the European aesthetic consciousness. Pushkin depicts life as a process; therefore he uses the artistic techniques that help to embody his idea in specifically artistic forms. This made it possible to publish the work by parts without being sure that it will be completed once, and based on it to build a variable composition (“Eugene Onegin”). These peculiarities of Pushkin’s poetics caused difficulties for researchers of his works: publishers attributed unfinished works to completed ones, and scholars and educators analyzed unfinished works as if the author had fully expressed his idea in them (e. g. unfinished novel “Dubrovsky”).
About the authors
Mikhail V Stroganov
A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences; The Kosygin State University of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: mvstroganov@gmail.com
Doctor of Philology, Leading Researcher
Russian Federation, ul. Povarskaya 25, Moscow, 121069; ul. Sadovnicheskaya 33, Moscow, 117997References
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