“Mermaids” Theme in A. P. Chekhov’s Short Stories «Trouble» and “Nervous Breakdown”
Short stories «Trouble» and «Nervous Breakdown» have social and psychological issues. However, as it often happens in A.P. Chekhov’s works, it is realized with the involvement of a folk culture language with which it creates the basis for its national identity. A folklore image of a mermaid and conc...
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| description | Short stories «Trouble» and «Nervous Breakdown» have social and psychological issues. However, as it often happens in A.P. Chekhov’s works, it is realized with the involvement of a folk culture language with which it creates the basis for its national identity. A folklore image of a mermaid and concepts related to it have an important role in these realistic short stories. The image, being constructive in both cases, appears in different forms and performs different functions. In the first case, the mermaid creates an associated field of indifference, devastation. In the second – temptation, fall, seduction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1c2f471b58a47758534e9fd340b92ab2022-12-22T04:15:19ZengSourthern Federal UniversityIzvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki1995-06402312-13432020-03-0120202121710.18522/1995-0640-2020-2-12-17“Mermaids” Theme in A. P. Chekhov’s Short Stories «Trouble» and “Nervous Breakdown”Anna A. Zubanova0Marina Ch. Larionova1Rostov State Medical UniversityFederal Research Center the Southern Scientific Center of Russian Academy of ScienceShort stories «Trouble» and «Nervous Breakdown» have social and psychological issues. However, as it often happens in A.P. Chekhov’s works, it is realized with the involvement of a folk culture language with which it creates the basis for its national identity. A folklore image of a mermaid and concepts related to it have an important role in these realistic short stories. The image, being constructive in both cases, appears in different forms and performs different functions. In the first case, the mermaid creates an associated field of indifference, devastation. In the second – temptation, fall, seduction.https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1462chekhovfolk culturemermaid«trouble»«nervous breakdown» |
| spellingShingle | Anna A. Zubanova Marina Ch. Larionova “Mermaids” Theme in A. P. Chekhov’s Short Stories «Trouble» and “Nervous Breakdown” Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki chekhov folk culture mermaid «trouble» «nervous breakdown» |
| title | “Mermaids” Theme in A. P. Chekhov’s Short Stories «Trouble» and “Nervous Breakdown” |
| title_full | “Mermaids” Theme in A. P. Chekhov’s Short Stories «Trouble» and “Nervous Breakdown” |
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| title_short | “Mermaids” Theme in A. P. Chekhov’s Short Stories «Trouble» and “Nervous Breakdown” |
| title_sort | mermaids theme in a p chekhov s short stories trouble and nervous breakdown |
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