From “Three Sisters” to “Two Sisters”. Reduction as a technique for transforming an “alien” text in the process of reception
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-3-60-69
Abstract
The term reduction as a method of transforming a “alien” text in the process of its reception is not widely used in literary criticism. However, the term characterizes, in our opinion, one of the constant trends in the intertextual engagement of two texts – precedent and generated – when truncation occurs, “cutting out” some elements of the plot and accentuation of others in order to create new meanings. We will consider that trend using the example of a chain of literary texts interacting, in V.N. Toporov’s terminology, in the “resonant space” of “Three Sisters”.
About the Author
M. M. Odesskaya
Russian State University for the humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Margarita M. Odesskaya, Dr. of Sci. (Phillogy), professor
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Odesskaya M.M. From “Three Sisters” to “Two Sisters”. Reduction as a technique for transforming an “alien” text in the process of reception. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2024;(3):60-69. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-3-60-69
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