RELATIONSHIP OF EPIGRAPHS AND TEXT IN A. S. PUSHKIN’S STORY “THE QUEEN OF SPADES”
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2022-4-72-84
Abstract
Aim. We consider the role of repetitions in A. S. Pushkin’s story “The Queen of Spades”, as well as the artistic function of epigraphs and their meaning in this work.
Methodology. Use is made of a stylistic and semantic analysis of Pushkin’s story “The Queen of Spades”. Special attention is paid to the steady repetition of many motifs and images, as well as individual words and expressions in “The Queen of Spades”; the epigraphs and the text of Pushkin’s story are compared.
Results. It is suggested that some of the repetitions in “The Queen of Spades” are not designed to remind the previous usages and arise by chance. But most of Pushkin’s self-repetitions are used quite consciously and thoughtfully and carry a certain emotional and expressive load. It is found that Pushkin managed to achieve in his story an exact correlation between the epigraph and the text and skillfully used literary repetitions as the author’s literary device, which manifests itself at different levels of his poetics.
Research implications. Determining the artistic function of epigraphs and their relationship with the text of “The Queen of Spades” can be important for commenting on Pushkin’s story, as well as for identifying the ambiguity and diversity of the main characters of the work, its philosophical issues, in particular, the problem of necessity and chance. In “The Queen of Spades”, the echo of the plot situation and the lexical-semantic connections of epigraphs with the text and plot twists of each chapter are clearly visible.
About the Author
S. A. Dzhanumov
Moscow City Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Seyran A. Dzhanumov – Dr. Sci. (Philological Sciences), Prof., Department of the Russian Literature, Institute of the Humanities
prosp. 2nd Selskokhozyaystvenny 4, Moscow 129226
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