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A MYTH ABOUT SINFUL WOMAN IN THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE 19TH – BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURIES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 11 (113). P. 109-111

In the paper we depict the process of forming the national myth about revival of sinful woman in the Russian literature of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. The three stages are examined in series. The first is the creation of the myth based on the “initial” motive about Jesus the Christ and Mary Magdalene and realized embodied in the traditional model “male redeemer/female victim” in the works by N. V. Gogol’, N. A. Nekrasov, N. G. Chernyshevsky (the 30–60s). The second is the myth’s destruction in the works by A. I. Levitov, A. P. Chekhov (the 60–80s of the nineteenth century). And finally, the third is creation of the neomyth about female redeemer in the works by F. M. Dostoevsky and L. Andreev.

Keywords: Russian literature, myth, neomyth, women in literature