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LOCUS OF GRAVE / TOMB IN RUSSIAN SENTIMENTAL NARRATIVE

Literary Сriticism

Authors

  • Kulikova Irina

Annotation

Locus of a grave / tomb of heroes and especially heroines is noticed in the narrative structure of many Russian sentimental narratives of the end of XVII - the beginning of XVIII centuries. All heroes are passionate love victims or they are its objects. The main philological-artistic genre opposition “love-death" is realized in heroes fates. Such typological features of sentimentalistic grave / tomb as 1) indication to the buried person; 2) location of the grave; 3) image of the grave; 4) emotional feelings and behavior of the people visiting the grave are analyzed in the article on the base of the narratives by N. Karamzin, G. Kamcnev, P. Lyvov, V. Izmaylov, P. Shalikov. A. Klushin and other authors. The appearance of a grave locus as a stable narrative element of sentimental narratives is determined as a direct consequence of the new understanding of a man as a private person which was made up in XVIII - XIX centuries According to this opinion a person has the right to be free in feelings and actions not depending on religious, state and class regulations. A loving person became a symbol (sign) of this new understanding and love passion became a main goal of humans life. The genre of sentimental narrative reflected these new ideas describing them in the locus of the grave of a hero.
Tags:
grave/tomb , russian sentimental narrative

How to link insert

Kulikova, I. . (2009). LOCUS OF GRAVE / TOMB IN RUSSIAN SENTIMENTAL NARRATIVE Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", # 4, 2009,
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