SIR WALTER SCOTT’S THE ANTIQUARY: CULTURES, HISTORY, ART AND NARRATIVE ALLIANCES
One of the least known to Russian readers novels of Sir Walter Scott is under analysis. Russian critical thought of Scott does not speak of the novel as it should since The Antiquary (1816) is the novel which demonstrates the movement of the writer’s artistic method towards more complex and realisti...
| Format: | Article |
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| Language: | Russian |
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Ural State Pedagogical University
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Филологический класс |
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| Online Access: | https://filclass.ru/en/archive/2019/2-56/sir-walter-scott-s-the-antiquary-cultures-history-art-and-narrative-alliances |
| Summary: | One of the least known to Russian readers novels of Sir Walter Scott is under analysis. Russian
critical thought of Scott does not speak of the novel as it should since The Antiquary (1816) is the novel which
demonstrates the movement of the writer’s artistic method towards more complex and realistic depiction
of characters and circumstances. The authors of the essay analytically concentrate on the talk of the artistic
structure of the novel as a wholeness that is characterized by quite harmonious alliances which eliminate
various antinomies and dichotomies. The authors argue that the central role in the artistic wholeness of
the novel are played by such antinomies as ‘historical fact – imaginative (fictitious) fact’, ‘man as a private
individual – man as a social being’, ‘past – present’, ‘historical novel – social novel’, ‘historical novel – novel
of manners’, ‘socio – psychological novel – romance’, ‘realism – romanticism’, ‘realistic – gothic’, ‘dramatic –
comic’, ‘Scottish – English’, ‘grassroots culture – high culture’, etc.; the movement of the narration towards bright resolution of them is
revealed in the essay. The authors of the essay also show the role and specificity of ethnographical peculiarities of the Scottish life in the
late 1790s as they were seen and narrated by the writer. |
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| ISSN: | 2071-2405 2658-5235 |