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- REPRESENTATION OF THE GOSPEL CODE IN THE NOVEL “GETTING INTO CHARACTERˮ BY H.L. OLDIE THROUGH THE PRISM OF SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRICAL METAPHOR
- Shchukina M.S. Representation of the Gospel code in the novel “Getting into Characterˮ by H.L. Oldie through the prism of Shakespeare’s theatrical metaphor. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2024, vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 107–111 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-1-107-111
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-1-107-111
- УДК: 821.161.1.09”20”
- EDN: EZZIMG
- Publish date: 2023-12-15
- Annotation: In the presented study the novel “Getting into Characterˮ (1991) by Henry Lyon Oldie (the pen name of Dmytro Hromov and Oleh Ladyzhens’ky) is considered as a part of Hamlet`s text of modern Russian-language literature. The peculiarities of the representation of the Gospel code of the novel are analysed. They are conditioned by the author’s concept of the artistic world, which assumes the recreation of reality according to the stage laws. It is established that the transformation of the Gospel code in the novel occurs at the level of the image system (Actor-Hamlet-Christ, mentor/Master-Messiah, pupil/apprentice-follower, stage word as Logos, theatre as religion, abyss as unrealised creative work), motif structure (motifs of mentoring, faith, salvation and resurrection of the soul). The ideological and thematic content of the artistic work is changed (the theme of art and its Creator, the problem of faith and faithlessness, the idea of redemption of human sins – the humanistic mission of the protagonist). It is determined by the theatricality as the most important category of the novel`s poetics, underlying the construction of the artistic reality of “Getting into Characterˮ. Special attention is paid to the representation of Shakespearean theatrical metaphor, as well as to the intertextual connection of H.L. Oldie’s novel with Shakespeare’s “Hamletˮ tragedy.
- Keywords: H.L. Oldie, Gospel code, Hamlet context, transformation, Shakespeare’s theatrical metaphor, Hamlet, Christ, intertextuality.
- Funding and acknowledgments: the work was financially supported by the grant from the Government of the Russian Federation (agreement No. 23-28-00989, 14.06.2022, implementation period 2023–2024) “English Classical Literature in World Culture: Receptions, Transformations, Interpretationsˮ.
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