IMAGE OF DECEMBRIST’S WIFE IN ARTISTIC AND AUTODOCUMENTARY DISCOURSE OF XIX CENTURY (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE NOVEL BY А. DUMА “TEACHER OF FENCING” AND “MEMORIALS” OF P. ANNENKOVA)
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2017-2-82-86
On the material of the novel “Teacher of fencing” by А. Duma and memoirs of P. Annenkova the author examines the semantics of the image of the decembrist’s wife expressed in the culture of the second half of the 19th century. The specificity of functioning of this type of woman personality comes to light in artistic and autodocumentary discourse. In addition, the analysis is carried out in a comparative aspect: the variants of the Russian and French reception of the decembrist culture and the image of decembrist’s wife are compared. In Russian literature maintenance of the concept of decembrist’s wife is based on spiritually-moral descriptions: oblatory love, devotion, loyalty, patience, courage. The ethical markers of this woman type are genetically related, on the one hand, to аutodocumental tradition of description of a wife, sharing the fate of the “disgraced” (often exiled to Siberia) spouse; and on the other hand, ascend to canonical character of a righteous wife, characteristic of the hagiografic genre. In the novel of А. Duma the beloved of the decembrist I. Annenkov is represented exceptionally in the field of love and love plot, and the chronotop of the novel is limited to the space of intimate history. Thus, the love of the character is interpreted by the teller only as a display of a strong woman passion and is not connected with the spiritually-moral categories of debt, sacrifice, etc. The image of the woman character in the Duma’s novel substantially differs from its prototype (P. Аnnenkova) and from the heroic type of woman personality presented in the Russian literature.
Keywords: dekabrizm, autodocumentary literature, reception, dialogue of cultures, poetics, woman personality, referentional, character, discourse, historical novel
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Issue: 2, 2017
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: PROBLEMS AND POETICS OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF XIX–XX CENTURIES
Pages: 82 — 86
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