THE NOVEL “THE UNWOMALNY FACE OF WAR” OF S. ALEXIEVICH AS A CYCLIC DOCUMENTARY-FICTIONAL PROSE: STRUCTURE AND POETICS

Cover Page

Cite item

Abstract

The research focuses on the issues of cyclization in the documentary fictional prose of the famous writer. It is important to understand the content of the concepts of “cycle” and “cyclization” and the features of their manifestation in modern prose texts. The subject of analysis is the work by S. Alexievich “The Unwomanly Face of War” and ways to connect individual stories into one. We investigate the system of motive, which provides the artistic unity of the novel.

About the authors

Karolina Górska

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: gorska.karoliewa@gmail.com

PhD student, Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, RUDN University

10/2, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

References

  1. Alexievich S. U voyny ne zhenskoye litso [The Unwomanly Face of War]. Moscow, 2016. 347 p.
  2. Alexievich S. U voyny ne zhenskoye litso [The Unwomanly Face of War]. Moscow, 1998. 463 p.
  3. Anninskiy L. Oglyanutsya v slezakh // Alekxievich S. U voyny ne zhenskoye litso [Look back in tears. The Unwomanly Face of War]. Moscow, 1998. 463 p.
  4. Antonyan Yu.M. Velikaya mat: realnost arkhetipa [The great mother — the reality of the archetype]. Moscow, 2007. 278 p.
  5. Vinogradov V.V. Poetika russkoy literatury [The poetics of Russian literature]. Moscow, 1976. 511 p.
  6. Darvin M.N., Tyupa V.I. Tsiklizatsiya v tvorchestve Pushkina [Cyclization in the works of Pushkin]. Novosibirsk, 2001. 292 p.
  7. Gareeva L.N. Voprosy teorii tsikla (liricheskogo i prozaicheskogo) // «Stikhotvoreniya v proze» I.S. Turgeneva: Voprosy poetiki [The Questions of Cycle Theory (The Lyrical and Prosaic). I.S. Turgenev’s Prose Poems: Issues of Poetics]. Izhevsk, 2004. 19—82 pp.
  8. Gin M.M. O svoyeobrazii russkogo realizma Nekrasova [The originality of Russian realism of Nekrasov]. Petrozavodsk, 1966. 268 p.
  9. Lyapina L.E. Tsiklizatsiya v russkoy literature XIX veka [Cyclization in the Russian literature of the XIX century]. St. Petersburg, 1999. 279 p.
  10. Kovalenko A.G. Tsiklizatsiya v sovremennoy proze. Problema tselostnosti // Filologicheskiye nauki. № 3 [Cyclization in modern prose. The problem of integrity. Philological Science. No. 3]. Moscow, 1987. 3—9 pp.
  11. Meletinsky E.M. O proiskhozhdenii literaturno-mifologicheskiy syuzhetnykh arkhetipov // Literaturnyye arkhetipy i universalii pod red. E.M. Meletinskogo [The origin of literary and mythological subject archetypes. Literary archetypes and universals]. Moscow, 2001. 431 p.
  12. Khalizev V.E. Teoriya literatury [Theory of literature]. Moscow, 1999. 397 p.
  13. Smirin I.A. Novellisticheskiy tsikl kak forma khudozhestvennoy tselostnosti // Tselostnost khudozhestvennogo proizvedeniya i problemy ego analiza v shkolnom i vuzovskom izuchenii literatury [Novelistic cycle as a form of artistic integrity. Integrity of a non-fiction work and problems of its analysis in literature studies in school and university]. Donetsk, 1977. 302 p.
  14. Starygina N.N. Problema tsikla v proze N.S. Leskova [The problem of the cycle in the prose of N.S. Leskov]: avtoref. diss. … kand. fil. nauk. Leningrad, 1985.
  15. Eisenstein S.M. Izbrannoye sobraniye sochineniy [Selected works]. Moscow, 1946. T. 2. 672 p. [16] Jung C.G. Arkhetip i simvol [Archetype and symbol]. Moscow, 1991. 297 p.

Copyright (c) 2018 Górska K.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies