Dialogue of “literature” and “literature” in the individual-author era: Ecclesiastes and the work of Nikolai Leskov
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-55-65
Abstract
The article is devoted to the issue of the interaction of sacred and artistic words in the individual author’s era. The purpose of the study is to trace how N.S. Leskov’s poetics reflected his attentive attitude to the originality of the biblical word. The material is the story “Languor of the Spirit”, the title and epigraph of which are quotations from the book of Ecclesiastes. On the basis of biblical and literary texts, the semantics of the combination “languor of the spirit” is determined. The study of the corresponding motive in Leskov’s story necessitated the analysis of the work based on the concept of the dialogue of “literature” and “language arts”, developed by S.S. Averintsev. The article indicates the main lines of comparison of the two creative principles formulated by the scientist. The features of “language arts” indicated by Averintsev are compared with the specifics of the genre, architectonics, plot, images of the heroes of Leskov’s story, thanks to which the dominants of poetics are established: an image of the world as an “olam”, an absence of portrait and landscape descriptions, a special concept of memory, an organization of the metaphysical perspective of the narrative around the motif of languor of the spirit. The results of the analysis allow to conclude about the interdependence of the elements of “literature” and “language arts” in the artistic creativity of the writer
About the Author
S. N. Satarova
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sof’ya N. Satarova
48, Moika Embankment, Saint Petersburg, 191186
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Satarova S.N. Dialogue of “literature” and “literature” in the individual-author era: Ecclesiastes and the work of Nikolai Leskov. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2023;(7):55-65. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-55-65
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