“Here is my plan”. An artistic detail and its role in the formation of semantics of the time flow in The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-53-64
Abstract
The article makes an attempt to evaluate the role that an artistic detail plays in the formation of meaning related to the concept of time in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. The episode where Yermolai Lopakhin represents the contents of his plan is taken as a material for the analysis. The examination of the plan becomes very important if one uses it for interpretation of a vision of the future that the character suggests. The close analysis of the details included into the plan allows finding that Lopakhin’s image of future life contains some elements of the past or the recurrence of what already existed in the past. The linguistic and semantic repetitions and intersections for the sense bearing components of out-of-stage artistic details related to imaginary future and the details that exist in the stage and out-of-stage space of the present lead to the formation of certain motifs. The examination of the system of details in the context of the episode where Lopakhin describes his plan and in the context of the literary text of the play as a whole gives an opportunity to look from a new angle at the semantics of the time flow and at the ontological layer in the last Chekhov’s play.
About the Author
E. A. Maryakhina
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena A. Maryakhina, applicant
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Maryakhina E.A. “Here is my plan”. An artistic detail and its role in the formation of semantics of the time flow in The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(3):53-64. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-53-64
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