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GENRE АND POETICS OF I.S. SHMELYOV AUTOBIOGRAPHIC ESSAYS
- Authors: Pinaev SM1
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- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: No 2 (2015)
- Pages: 7-13
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/13309
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The article is devoted to researching of genre nature of I.S. Shmelyov’s autobiographic essays «Leto Gospodne» and «Bogomolye». The main thing is a «soulbuilding» of young man. So one can define the genre as «psychological novel» or «psychological short novel». And also they are «pedagogical novels»: the «ideal tutor», Gorkin, uses the pedagogics of love and virtue founded on Christian doctrines. The author describes also the poetics of Shmelyov’s works based on child’s world outlook connected with colour and sound sensations.
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S M Pinaev
Peoples’ Friendship University of RussiaDepartment of World and Russian Literature
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