  andreeva-vg-vestnik-2021-3.pdf |
- 11
- Epic Novel: to the problem of liberating terms from pseudo-meanings
- Andreeva V.G. Epic novel: on the problem of making terms devoid of pseudo-meanings. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2021, vol. 27, № 3, pp. 92–101 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-3-92-101
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-3-92-101
- УДК: 821.161.1.09"19"
- Publish date: 2021-08-18
- Annotation: The article examines the concept of an epic novel – a special historical genre phenomenon that arose as a result of the successful implementation by Russian classics of the second half of the 19th century. The author discusses the pseudo-names that appeared in Soviet literary criticism due to its politicisation and ideologisation back in the 1920s –30s and she shows that the terms of epic novel and epopee novel were used at the indicated time for the sake of the Communist party tasks, but contrary to their true meanings. As noted in the article, this required a rejection of the traditions of Russian classical literature, a rejection of the genetic memory of the universal vision of the world and human inherent in the epic novel. Analytical comprehension of the polemics of literary critics of different generations made it possible to show that a number of researchers who rightly saw the problem, forgot to “rehabilitate” the above concepts and transferred the line of denial of Soviet ideology to the terms themselves. The author of the article explains the importance of using the concept of an epic novel in its true meaning, in relation to the voluminous works of Russian classical literature.
- Keywords: epic, novel, epic novel, Russian classics, genre, world image, ideology, pseudo-meanings, Soviet criticism, Soviet literary criticism, ideal.
- Funding and acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project number 20-012-00102
- Literature list: Andreeva V.G. Narodnaia tema kak epicheskaia osnova romana I.S. Turgeneva “Nov'” [Folk Theme as an Epic Basis of Ivan Turgenev’s Novel “Virgin soil”]. Izvestiia Iuzhnogo federal'nogo universiteta [News of the Southern Federal University], 2020a, № 4, pp. 169–181. DOI https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2020-4-169-181 (In Russ.) Andreeva V.G. Obraz zemli kak odna iz epicheskikh osnov khudozhestvennykh mirov romanov L.N. Tolstogo [The image of the earth as one of the epic foundations of the artistic worlds of Leo Tolstoy’s novels]. Dva veka russkoi klassiki [Two centuries of the Russian classics], 2020b, vol. 2, № 2, pp. 192–227. DOI https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2020-2-2-192-227 (In Russ.) Andreeva V.G. Fenomen russkogo epicheskogo romana [The phenomenon of the Russian epic novel]. Filologicheskie nauki. Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly [Philological sciences. High school scientific reports], 2020v, № 6, pp. 110–117. DOI https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-20.110 (In Russ.) Bakhtin M.M. Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo [Problems of Dostoevsky's Creativity]. URL: http://az.lib.ru/b/bahtin_m_m/text_1929_problemy_tvorchestva_dostoevskogo.shtml (In Russ.) Bakhtin M.M. Epos i roman [Epic and novel]. Voprosy literatury i estetiki [Questions of literature and aesthetics]. Moscow, Khudozh. lit. Publ., 1975, pp. 447–483. (In Russ.) Beglov V.A. Epopeia v russkoi literature XIX–XX vv.: stanovlenie i transformatsii: avtoref. … dokt. fil. nauk [Epic in Russian literature of the XIX–XX centuries: PhD thesis], 2006, 46 p. (In Russ.) Belaia G. “Fokusnicheskoe ustranenie real'nosti” (O poniatii “roman-epopeia”) [“Fictional elimination of reality” (On the concept of “novel-epic”)]. Voprosy literatury [Voprosy literatury], 1998, № 3, pp. 170–201. URL: https://voplit.ru/2021/03/29/fokusnicheskoe-ustranenie-realnosti-o-ponyatii-roman-epopeya/ (In Russ.) Berkovskii N.Ia. O mirovom znachenii russkoi literatury [On the world significance of Russian literature]. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1975, 184 p. (In Russ.) Bursov B.I. Lev Tolstoi i russkii roman [Leo Tolstoy and the Russian novel]. Moscow; Leningrad, AN SSSR Publ., 1963, 152 p. (In Russ.) Bursov B.I. Natsional'noe svoeobrazie russkoi literatury [National originality of Russian literature]. Leningrad, Sov. pisatel' Publ., 1967, 396 p. (In Russ.) Veselovskii A.N. Istoriia ili teoriia romana? [History or theory of the novel?] URL: http://az.lib.ru/w/weselowskij_a_n/text_1886_istoria_ili_teoria_romana.shtml (In Russ.) Gachev G.D. Soderzhatel'nost' khudozhestvennykh form [The richness of artistic forms]. Moscow, Prosveshchenie Publ., 1968, 302 p. (In Russ.) Gulin A.V. Nesbyvshiisia epos (L.N. Tolstoi v rabote nad romanom iz vremeni Petra I) [An unrealised epic (Leo Tolstoy busy with a novel of the days of Peter I)]. Dva veka russkoi klassiki [Two centuries of the Russian classics], 2020, vol. 2, № 3, pp. 86–117. DOI https://doi.org/10.22455/2686-7494-2020-2-3-86-117 (In Russ.) Ermolaeva N.L. Mnogoznachnost' obraza kamnia v epicheskom mire romannoi trilogii I.A. Goncharova [Multiple meanings of the image of stone in the epic world of the novel trilogy by I. A. Goncharov]. Verkhnevolzhskii filologicheskii vestnik [Verkhnevolzhsky philological bulletin], 2020, № 2 (21), pp. 8–16. DOI https://doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2020-2-21-8-16 (In Russ.) Ermolenko S.I. Roman v russkoi literature 80-kh gg. XIX veka: k probleme “krizisa” zhanra [A novel in Russian literature of the 80s. XIX century: on the problem of the “crisis” of the genre]. Filologicheskii klass [Philological class], 2015, № 3 (41), pp. 36–40. (In Russ.) Ivanov V.I. Dostoevskii i roman-tragediia [Dostoevsky and the tragedy novel]. URL: http://az.lib.ru/i/iwanow_w_i/text_0010.shtml (In Russ.) Kazakova S.K. Chastnyi interes i obshchee blago: otzvuk epokhi velikikh reform v romane I.A. Goncharova “Obryv” [Private interest and common good: echo of the great reforms era in Ivan Goncharov’s novel “The Precipice”]. Uchenye zapiski Petrozavodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University], 2020, vol. 42, № 7, pp. 95–102. DOI https://doi.org/10.15393/uchz.art.2020.530 (In Russ.) Kozlov V.I. N.L. Leiderman. Teoriia zhanra [N.L. Leiderman. The theory of genre]. Voprosy literatury [Questions of literature], 2012, № 4, pp. 506–509. (In Russ.) Kozhinov V.V. Roman – epos novogo vremeni [The novel is an epic of modern times]. Voprosy literatury [Questions of literature], 1957, № 6, pp. 64–93. (In Russ.) Kravchenko O.A. Kontseptsiia “romana-tragedii”: polemika M. Bakhtina s Viach. Ivanovym [The concept of a “novel-tragedy”: M. Bakhtin's polemic with Vyach. Ivanov]. Novyi filologicheskii vestnik [New philological bulletin], 2011, № 1 (16), pp. 120–128. (In Russ.) Leiderman N.L. Dvizhenie vremeni i zakony zhanra [The movement of time and the laws of the genre]. Sverdlovsk, Sred.-Ural. knizh. izdat. Publ., 1982, 256 p. (In Russ.) Leiderman N.L. Teoriia zhanra: issledovaniia i razbory [Genre theory: research and analysis]. Ekaterinburg, UrGPU Publ., 2010, 904 s. (In Russ.) Meletinskii E. Voprosy teorii eposa v sovremennoi zarubezhnoi nauke [Questions of the theory of the epic in modern foreign science]. Voprosy literatury [Questions of literature], 1957, № 2, pp. 90–112. (In Russ.) Mikhnovets N.G. Roman L.N. Tolstogo “Voskresenie” kak epicheskii: avtorskii podkhod k izobrazheniiu faktov sovremennosti i ikh otsenka [The novel “Resurrection” by Leo Tolstoy as an epic – the author’s approach to the image of facts of contemporaneity and their appraisal]. Vestnik Kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Vestnik of Kostroma State University], 2020a, vol. 26, № 2, pp. 132–138. DOI https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-132-138 (In Russ.) Mikhnovets N.G. Epicheskii razvorot siuzheta viny ot sna Prokharchina k snu Dmitriia Karamazova [Epic Reversal of the Plot of Guilt from Prokharchin’s Dream to Dmitry Karamazov’s Dream]. Nauchnyi dialog [Nauchnyi dialog], 2020b, № 9, рр. 265–283. DOI https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2020-9-265-283 (In Russ.) Svintsov V. Vera i neverie: Dostoevskii, Tolstoi, Chekhov i drugie [Faith and unbelief: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and others]. Voprosy literatury [Questions of literature], 1998, № 5, pp. 176–207. (In Russ.) Tamarchenko N.D. M.M. Bakhtin, A.N. Veselovskii i Viach.I. Ivanov: teoriia romana i ego istoricheskaia poetika [M.M. Bakhtin, A.N. Veselovsky and Viach.I. Ivanov: Theory of the Novel and Its Historical Poetics]. Novyi filologicheskii vestnik [New Philological Bulletin], 2007, № 2 (5), pp. 34–48. (In Russ.) Tamarchenko N.D. Epika [Epica]. Teoriia literatury [Theory of literature]. Moscow, IMLI RAN Publ., 2003, t. 3: Rody i zhanry [vol. 3: Clans and genres], pp. 219–244. (In Russ.) Khrapchenko M.B. Iskusstvo epicheskikh obobshchenii [The art of epic generalizations]. Voprosy literatury [Voprosy literatury], 1960, № 10, pp. 66–86. (In Russ.) Chicherin A.V. Vozniknovenie romana-epopei [The emergence of the epic novel]. Moscow, Sov. pisatel' Publ., 1975, 376 p. (In Russ.)