Kam reikalingi žanrai, arba Ką senoji rusų literatūra gali papasakoti apie Dantę ir Peterį Greenaway’ų
Who needs the genres, or what old Russian literature can tell about Dantes and Peter Greenaway

Summary/Abstract: One of the main problems faced by film adaptationists is terminology, by means of which it is possible to discuss and compare the textual features of the literary text and cinematograph. One of the most respectable but hard-to-operationalize terms is the "genre". The boundaries of its application and the direction of modifications in the transmedial perspective are indicated by a discussion on the genre in Old Russian literature, provoked in the late 1980s by the works of DS Likhachev. The proposed alternatives with regard to the Old Russian period are accentuated by the discursive measurement of texts that have a commonality. An additional intrigue arises in the discussion of the relation between the medieval work (Dante's Divine Comedy) and modern cinema text (Peter Greenaway's film), to which this work refers. In this case, the difference in the genre nomenclature and the institutional arrangement of both arts provokes a change in the optics of analysis and the transfer of attention to the scope of the discursive features of both tests. The analogy is found at the level, which in this article is called discourse configuration or discursive constellation of the text.

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