Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-108-125
N. Kharitonova
{"title":"R. del Valle Inclán’s Novel Tirano Banderas in the Light of Intersectional Analysis","authors":"N. Kharitonova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-108-125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-108-125","url":null,"abstract":"Spanish writer R. del Valle Inclán wrote the novel Tirano Banderas (1926), when Spain was developing a new policy towards the Latin America after the definite loss of its overseas colonies in 1898. Valle Inclán advocated the restoration of indigenous peoples’ rights, political and economic sovereignty of the Latin American countries. The intersectional analysis clarifies the writer’s anticolonial concept. On the basis of racial identity, the novel’s characters form two groups: Spaniards and foreigners, and Indians and Creoles. Indians are an oppressed race, while the Spaniards and foreigners are oppressors. But General Santos Banderas, who tyrannizes his country, is an Indian too. Additional light is shed due to the analysis of gender and social role and its symbolic dimensions. The female characters in the novel forced to ask men for help but their demands are justified if they act in the interests of their children. Paternity also has the connotations of care and protection, and symbolically, care for the nation. The tyrant Banderas, who kills his insane daughter, fails both as father and as an Indian ruler since he appropriates the oppressor’s role imported from the metropolis.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84155824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-84-109
A. Kotova
{"title":"Similes in Narrator’s and Characters’ Speech as Traditional Elements of Epic Style (on the Material of Virgil’s “Aeneid”)","authors":"A. Kotova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-84-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-84-109","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the peculiarities of the functioning of similes in narrator’s and characters’ speech in Virgil’s “Aeneid.” The author of the article demonstrates the relation between the nature of the distribution of similes and the subject of speech, the content of the text and the development of the plot on the basis of quantitative data. As the analysis shows, similes in the narrator’s speech serve to describe and characterize heroes, people, gods, chthonic creatures and phenomena. Similes in the characters’ speech are used in communication with the shadows of the dead, prophetic dreams, prophecies, descriptions of chthonic creatures, as well as for characterizing actions of the opposing sides and individual heroes in the episode of the fall of Troy. The conclusion is that the distribution of similes in the text of the “Aeneid” is not accidental and follows the previous epic tradition: similes prevail in those parts and episodes of the poem in which the description of battles and duels is given, and they are concentrated in the speech of the narrator, in the speech of the characters they are significantly fewer. While preserving the features of continuity with the previous tradition, Virgil’s poem also distinguishes by its fundamental novelty in the creative selection and arrangement of aesthetic speech elements.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80972553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-368-387
S. S. Makarov
{"title":"Ethnonyms in the Texts of the Yakut Epic","authors":"S. S. Makarov","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-368-387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-368-387","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the functioning of ethnonyms and ethnocultural stereotypes in the texts of the Yakut epic tales. It describes hitherto understudied ethnic groups’ nominations, the contexts and internal logic of its use in folklore narration with the involvement of published and archival sources. The main attention is paid to the tropeic function of ethnonyms, that is their inclusion in the various attributive expressions correlated with certain objects of the epic world. The author shows that three largest ethnic groups — Yakuts, Tunguses and Russians — are at the center of the “ethnogeography” of the Yakut epic. Comparisons with foreigners is characteristic of peripheral (culturally alien) loci of the epic world, and in the character system the concepts associated with them are emphasized in the images of the character’s opponents. Consideration of the attributes of the “others” distinguished by the tradition suggests the importance of economic and cultural features in the formation of their stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79090118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-188-203
V. Polonsky
{"title":"Thirst for Apocalyptic Whirlwinds and Creating a New World: Russian Literature of the 20th Century from the Silver Age to the Soviet Years Aesthetics","authors":"V. Polonsky","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-188-203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-188-203","url":null,"abstract":"In the article, specific attention is paid to the factors that define the development of Russian literature at the most critical stages of the previous century. Especially, it dwells on the Russian revolution of 1917 and its most immediate consequence: creating Soviet Art. The author demonstrates that for many figures of Russian Modernism an orientation towards total social and cultural collapse was part of their aesthetic program. The Revolution mercilessly responded to this deep inner call of Russian culture. The response was received by the public in the shadow of the last book in the Bible: the Apocalypse. New Soviet literature, separated from the “bourgeois heritage” of the Silver Age, however, was deeply connected with its dystopias and phobias, catastrophic intuition and the expectation of the transformation of a Man and World where labor, science and technique should function as divine tools in the Epic Song of the Birth of New Universe. The most important stage in the process of the liberation of Russian literature from mythological constructions of Soviet avant-garde aesthetics was the Second World War. It rehabilitated a central meta-hero of great Russian classical literature, “a little person” debunked by Modernism.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77781311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-156-173
N. Mikeladze
{"title":"Again about “My Kingdom for a Horse”: the Way of Interpretation of “Richard III”","authors":"N. Mikeladze","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-156-173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-156-173","url":null,"abstract":"The article reveals a new way of interpreting the last words of Shakespeare’s Richard III on the Bosworth battlefield (5.4.7, 13). As evidenced by numerous parodies and anecdotes the phrase became an idiom in the age of Shakespeare, and in the 19th century Russian translations has survived metamorphoses ranging from the fairy “half the kingdom” to the alternative “the whole kingdom” for a horse. The available interpretations in scientific editions don’t clarify the expression. It is absent in historical (Hall, Holinshed) and possible literary (Richardus Tertius, True Tragedy) sources, but corresponds to the logic of character and actions of Shakespeare’s Richard. We traced the development of the “white horse” motive, identified its heraldic symbolism and the leading biblical allegory associated with the image of the victor in the battle for the world (Rev. 19: 11, 16), as well as the playwright’s emphasis on the tyrant’s progressing madness. The revealed increase in biblical lexis (“irons of wrath,” “cast,” etc) and imagery (non-sunrise, the paradox of “George” and “dragon”), the symbolism of the stage space (set in accordance with the iconography of the Crucifixion and the Last Judgment) allow us to read the denouement of the cross-cutting theme of the fight between “the world” and “nothing” (1.2.240) in spirit and tradition of religious play. Richard’s “wager” takes the play beyond the boundaries of the genres codified by the Folio (Histories and Tragedies) and raises it to a mystery play, demonstrating the last battle in Heaven. Paradoxically, the first Russian translator of the play, S. Sergievsky, at the end of the 18th century most accurately succeeded in conveying the meaning of the “bet,” following the French translation by Pierre Antoine de La Place.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77199367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-76-93
I. Ershova
{"title":"Dante’s Plot on Francesco and Paolo in Spanish Literature of the 15th–17th Centuries","authors":"I. Ershova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-76-93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-76-93","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the reception of the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) by Dante Alighieri and, in particular, of Canto 5 of the Inferno and its central episode — Dante’s encounter with Francesca and Paolo, in Spanish literature of the 15th–17th centuries. It began at the end of the initial third of the 15th century that was caused by late reception of the European courtesy tradition in Spain. Old translations of Infierno by Dante (Enrique de Villena, Pedro Fernández de Villegas) saw in the story of Francesca and Paolo first and foremost a cautionary example of the tragic effect of the courteous poetry and its ideals on real fates of people, thus partly determining further ways of perception of the narrative of killed lovers and its effect on the Spanish poetry and drama. The brightest expression of this idea is the episode, where Marquess de Santillana, hero of El Triumphete de Amor vision, meets the Dante’s characters and the “dona de Ravenna” gives place to Galician troubadour Macias. The national legend and didactic representation of Dante’s episode forced the narrative of Francesca and Paolo out of the Spanish literature. Lope de Vega’s play titled El castigo sin venganza written on the basis of the plot of Bandello’s novella and transformed under the influence of Dante’s episode became in a way the return to the initial and tragic essence of the story of two lovers.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74218349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-406-429
K. Buynova
{"title":"Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers’ Union in the 1950s.","authors":"K. Buynova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-406-429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-3-406-429","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the development of the Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers’ Union in 1953–1959. Commission’s goals were determined by the new document, “Regulations on the Foreign Commission.” Most of duties fell on consultants involved expanding ties with different countries. The Second and Third Writers’ All-Union Congresses (1954, 1959), where dozens of foreign authors participated, played an important role in the development of the Foreign Commission’s contacts. The main political events of the period, such as the 20th Congress of the CPSU and the Pasternak case, made the work of the institution’s staff more difficult. Aware of the influence of the United States among the foreign writers, as well as the competition of the young Chinese project, the Foreign Commission understood the need for a more open, democratic and businesslike approach, but was failing to achieve its implementation in the 1950s. But still the Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers’ Union was not like other soviet propaganda institutions of its time, mainly because the special status of the foreigners it dealt with, and also due to the fact that this work was carried out not by professional propagandists, but by literary critics and translators.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88015077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-40-61
Tatiana G. Chesnokova
{"title":"Winter in Tomis and “Winter” in Hell: Once More about the Parallels between Dante and Ovid","authors":"Tatiana G. Chesnokova","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-40-61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-2-40-61","url":null,"abstract":"Among the probable sources of “winter” imagery in the last cantos of Inferno a special place belongs to the motif of Scythian winter, developed in detail by Ovid in his “exile poetry” and (before him) by Virgil in the Georgics (III). Despite the absence of direct mentions of Tristia and Epistulae Ex Ponto in Dante’s oeuvre, the majority of modern scholars challenge the statement of E. Moore, who suggested in the late 19th century that later writings by Ovid created in exile may have remained unknown to the author of the Divine Comedy. In correlation with the view of Michelangelo Picone, who, beside tracing the characteristics of Ovid’s winter, also saw in Dante’s wintry parts of Hell a reconsideration of the motif of exile (central to Tristia), the author of the article examines the most important parallels, uniting the Commedia’s first cantica with Ovid’s “exile” verses, namely the description of the solidity of ice covering the river or lake; the hero-author walking on the ice and gazing at beings bound in it; the correlation between winter’s dominance and the escalation of hostility in the relations of persons and tribes; the connection of winter’s setting with the motifs of “death-in-the-life” and the loss of spiritual home; a longing for spiritual Absolute under the reign of winter; potential ambiguousness of “winter” motifs.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73495944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-240-259
M. Kuzmina
{"title":"The Motif of Laziness in the Friendly Correspondence of the Young I.V. Kireevsky","authors":"M. Kuzmina","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-240-259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-240-259","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the motif of laziness in the friendly correspondence of I.V. Kireevsky in the 1820s–1830s. It turns out that for the future Slavophile the interpretation of this motif, which was widespread in Russian lyric poetry and epistolary of the early 19th century, remained relevant. It was authentic, in particular, for the young A.S. Pushkin — as “blessed laziness” accompanying a creative gift and therefore fruitful, associated with the freedom and happiness of creativity. In many ways, Kireevsky perceived such an understanding of laziness through the prism of romantic culture, and particularly of elegiac romanticism under the influence of its major representative V.A. Zhukovsky, his relative and friend. At the same time, the young epistolographer also adopted the understanding of laziness of his correspondents, such as A.I. Koshelev, A.V. Venevitinov, V.F. Odoevsky and etc. From their point of view, laziness in the chosen field of activity for the good of the Fatherland and laziness in friendly correspondence, where, in fact, it is necessary to report on the results of this activity, is completely unacceptable. Consequently, lack of zeal in correspondence is disturbing because it may indicate lack of zeal in activity. Kireevsky has earned a reputation as an idler among his friends. And, on the one hand, he defended freedom of creativity, the right to internal work in the absence of external work, but on the other hand, he worried and repented in front of his friends in laziness, tried to fight it. The motif of laziness has become the main artistic experiments and achievements of Kireevsky as the epistolographer.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83142926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterarumPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-70-87
N. Dolgorukova, A. A. Lyubavina
{"title":"Semantic and Connotations of the Word “Surplus” in French and Provencal Literature of the 12th Century","authors":"N. Dolgorukova, A. A. Lyubavina","doi":"10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-70-87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-1-70-87","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the semantic transformations of the Old French word surplus in French and Provencal literature of the 12th century. In the dictionaries of Godefroy and Tobler-Lommatzsch, surplus is defined as “the rest,” “what is left,” “(all) the rest.” It is in this sense that the word appears in historiography, and then in courtly literature. However, when analysing the novels of Chrétien de Troyes and lais of Marie de France, a semantic shift is revealed: in some fragments, the word surplus becomes an erotic euphemism, denoting “the highest favour of a lady.” There is reason to believe that the origins of this euphemistic meaning go back to the lyrics of the troubadours, in which the words plus and sobreplus were used to denote the highest erotic pleasure. In lai of Nightingale, Marie de France places in a similar context not surplus, but plus. Thus, it can be assumed that the poetess was the first to discover the euphemism among the troubadours, and Chrétien used it under the influence of lais. In the prologue to the lais, written after all twelve texts, Marie de France gives the word surplus a new meaning. It turns into a metaphor of cognition and interpretation, introducing new, additional meanings in the ancient text.","PeriodicalId":41001,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterarum","volume":"210 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85634054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}