The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin
The article investigates the phenomenon of the letter and the word in the essay “The keys of Mary” (1918) written by A.S. Yesenin and the short-story by M.P. Shishkin “Calligraphy Lesson” (1993), and also in his essay “The Saved Language” (2001). The given articles reveals common and opposite theses...
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| description | The article investigates the phenomenon of the letter and the word in the essay “The keys of Mary” (1918) written by A.S. Yesenin and the short-story by M.P. Shishkin “Calligraphy Lesson” (1993), and also in his essay “The Saved Language” (2001). The given articles reveals common and opposite theses between art and linguistic concepts proposed by Serguey Yesenin, a poet of the Silver Age, and Mikhail Shishkin, a writer of the XXI century: they both see the letter as a microcosm, point out the anthropological perception of the letter, and emphasize the creative potential of the word. Yesenin and Shishkin correlate the “living life” of the word with a consistent action, in which there is a beginning, a climax, a conclusion. The plot of “Calligraphy Lesson” develops following the graphic logic of the letter, the narrative about the life of the law writer is moving towards a full-stop. In the “Keys of Mary”, on the contrary, the alphabet plot develops as a story of individual: from the intuitive perception of self to self-discovery. With the explicit anthropological sense of the alphabet, both Yesenin and Shishkin establish their hierarchy of values where a person doesn’t play the main part. Letters and words in the Yesenin and Shishkin’s aesthetic system go far beyond the limits of their cognitive functions. Both Yesenin and Shishkin develop the idea of a word as national cultural memory. The philosophy of the words as presented by both writers is considered as following the stylistic tradition of Epiphanius the Wise. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de0ecf4472424359ae8de291c57b84492022-12-22T00:40:49ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-92472018-12-01231364110.22363/2312-9220-2018-23-1-36-4116301The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. ShishkinNatalya Mikhailovna Solnceva0Marina Alexandrovna Khlebus1<p>Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова</p><p>Московский государственный университет им. М.В. Ломоносова</p>The article investigates the phenomenon of the letter and the word in the essay “The keys of Mary” (1918) written by A.S. Yesenin and the short-story by M.P. Shishkin “Calligraphy Lesson” (1993), and also in his essay “The Saved Language” (2001). The given articles reveals common and opposite theses between art and linguistic concepts proposed by Serguey Yesenin, a poet of the Silver Age, and Mikhail Shishkin, a writer of the XXI century: they both see the letter as a microcosm, point out the anthropological perception of the letter, and emphasize the creative potential of the word. Yesenin and Shishkin correlate the “living life” of the word with a consistent action, in which there is a beginning, a climax, a conclusion. The plot of “Calligraphy Lesson” develops following the graphic logic of the letter, the narrative about the life of the law writer is moving towards a full-stop. In the “Keys of Mary”, on the contrary, the alphabet plot develops as a story of individual: from the intuitive perception of self to self-discovery. With the explicit anthropological sense of the alphabet, both Yesenin and Shishkin establish their hierarchy of values where a person doesn’t play the main part. Letters and words in the Yesenin and Shishkin’s aesthetic system go far beyond the limits of their cognitive functions. Both Yesenin and Shishkin develop the idea of a word as national cultural memory. The philosophy of the words as presented by both writers is considered as following the stylistic tradition of Epiphanius the Wise.http://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/18152антропологиябуквабытиеЕпифаний ПремудрыйЕсенинобразсловофеноменШишкинязык |
| spellingShingle | Natalya Mikhailovna Solnceva Marina Alexandrovna Khlebus The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism антропология буква бытие Епифаний Премудрый Есенин образ слово феномен Шишкин язык |
| title | The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin |
| title_full | The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin |
| title_fullStr | The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin |
| title_full_unstemmed | The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin |
| title_short | The letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by S. Esenin, M. Shishkin |
| title_sort | letter and the world in the fictional realm of works by s esenin m shishkin |
| topic | антропология буква бытие Епифаний Премудрый Есенин образ слово феномен Шишкин язык |
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