Towards a “Morality of Value”. Knightly Topic or Axiology of New Chivalry – An Experience of Correlation: Elena Guro’s The Poor Knight and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups Cover Image

На пути к «морали ценности». Рыцарская топика или аксиология нового рыцарства – опыт соотнесения: "Бедный рыцарь" Елены Гуро и "Рыцарь кубков" Терренса Малика
Towards a “Morality of Value”. Knightly Topic or Axiology of New Chivalry – An Experience of Correlation: Elena Guro’s The Poor Knight and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

Author(s): Jekatierina Mielniczuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Guro;Malick;Knight of Cups;knightly symbolism

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the research was E. Guro’s novelThe Poor Knight and T. Malick’s film Knight of the Cups. The analysis, inspired N. Bierdiayev’s reflections on the “ethics of values” and the concept of “new knighthood”, indicates the dialogical relations between distant texts of culture. The comparative analysis reveals the following: 1. Guro introduces a new type of literary hero that has a palimpsest character; 2. updates the axiological sense of the knight; 3. the continuity of the knight’s ethos is brought out by the analogy to Malick’s film – their “common places” are: the initiation scheme, the Master / teacherarchetype, and the concept of a knight’s mission.

  • Issue Year: 2/2022
  • Issue No: XXIV
  • Page Range: 165-180
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian