GENESIS AND GENRE SPECIFICITY OF PASSAGES IN N.M. KARAMZIN’S PROSE (1789–1792) Cover Image

ГЕНЕЗИС И ЖАНРОВАЯ СПЕЦИФИКА ОТРЫВКОВ В ПРОЗЕ Н.М. КАРАМЗИНА (1789–1792 ГГ.)
GENESIS AND GENRE SPECIFICITY OF PASSAGES IN N.M. KARAMZIN’S PROSE (1789–1792)

Author(s): Tatiana Aleksandrovna Alpatova
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Special Branches of Philosophy, Russian Literature, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: passage; descriptive poem; natural philosophy; sentimentality; pre-romanticism; N.M. Karamzin; J. Thompson;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the genetic relation of N.M. Karamzin’s early prose (“Walk”, “Village”, and “Night”) to descriptive poem traditions, such as in J. Thompson’s “The Seasons”, a retelling translation in the form of prose created by the Russian writer not long before the above-stated works. The genre nature of N.M. Karamzin’s “short prose” is considered in the paper as an actualization of the model of “passage” (fragment), which became popular later in the literature of romanticism. The specificity of N.M. Karamzin’s passages is the synthesis of psychological intensity, emotional and subjective origins, and deep natural philosophical thoughts dominated by the idea of reflection of the whole in the particular, as well as the large in the small. This determined the philosophical and aesthetic specifics of passage as a genre in the artistic system of sentimentalism.

  • Issue Year: 158/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-106
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian