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Galina I. Romanova
Moscow State Pedagogic University
Kristina V. Rizayeva
Moscow State Pedagogic University
Genre specificity of Mikhail Albov’s dilogy "Of People "in Search of the City""
Romanova G.I., Rizayeva K.V. Genre specificity of Mikhail Albov’s dilogy "Of People "in Search of the City"" // Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2020, vol. 26, № 2, pp. 145-150 (In Russ.). DOI 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-145-150
DOI: 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-145-15
УДК: 821.161.1.09”19”
Publish date: 2020-04-30
Annotation: Genre specifics of the stories "Lyol'ka's Upbringing" and "A Day in the Vastness of Nature" by Mikhail Albov is considered. Historical-typological analysis of both works is given. Chronotope, type of plots, features of speech organisation in both stories, which are considered as a dilogy, are analysed. The overview characteristic of the existence of the genre of story in the Russian literary process is given, the exclusive affiliation of story genre to Russian literature is noted. Literary trends of the late 19th century are marked, the significant role of the story genre in Russian literature in the 2nd half of the 19th century is indicated. Two traditions in determining the specifics of the story genre – by formal features and by meaningful characteristics - are noted. Mikhail Albov's works general specificity - the static character of heroes when repeatedly using the same names and life stories of characters in different works of the writer – is presented. The story "Lyol'ka's Upbringing" by Mikhail Albov is characterised as storytelling traditional one for literature about suffering children, a conclusion about the writer's creative perception of Fyodor Dostoevsky's works is made. The story "A Day in the Vastness of Nature" by Mikhail Albov is defined as one unrelated to the story "Lyol'ka's Upbringing" by plot. The article proves that the stories constitute a dilogy. Prevalence of psychology in portraying heroines of both stories is noted; the genre invariant of a story, characteristic of belles lettres of the last third of the 19th century, is identified.
Keywords: genre, story, narrator, Mikhail Albov, dilogy, belles lettres, tradition.
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Author's info: Galina I. Romanova, ORCID 0000-0002-6173-2411, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of Russian Literature department, Institute for the Humanities of Moscow City Pedagogic University, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: galinroma@mail.ru
Co-author's info: Kristina V. Rizayeva, ORCID 0000-0001-6163-0629, Institute for the Humanities of Moscow City Pedagogic University, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: minushinak@gmail.com