Article

Name: The Observer as a Plot Position in the Poetry and Prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya

Authors: Anastasia A. Ponomareva

Institute of Philology, Mass Information and Psychology of Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Literary Life of the Plot

Abstract:  The article presents investigation the phenomenon, characteristic for poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya. It is actualization of the observer figure in the plot. The author determines poems by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya have stories micro-plots. The center is a lyrical heroine watching else’s life. The poetic creation of this plot position is eclectic. The motif theme is developed with the help of romantic and naturalistic clichés. On the one hand, the author reproduces the romantic situation of social alienation, elegiac motives of memory, loss, etc. On the other hand, the author actualizes the theme of the influence of the environment on the person, the idea of useful work, etc. The article shows the plot position, formed in poetry, organically entered into prose in the heyday of the “fiction talent” by writer. In prose works the lyrical component is absorbed by the plot. The observer is not only not removed from the events, but also actively involved in them. The article gives a thorough description of the story “Behind the wall” (1862). This story is exceptionally representative. The narrator watching the love story of his neighbors is brought to the fore. Fable observation is presented through a situation of listening, not peeping. The actualization of the poetic principle in the prose plot leads to the weakening of “fabulousness”. The constructive beginning, forming a prose plot, is the reflection of the narrator. Else’s love story is the background of his experiences. The shift of the plot emphasis from the lovers to the narrator leads to the fact that the social component of the plot, associated with the issue of female emancipation, is “extinguished”, there is a psychologization of the narrative. In conclusion that the figure of the observer in poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya has an important plot value, organizing the semantic core of the plot. In the poetic and prose versions of the plot position is repeated the same motif theme. In the process of observation before the lyrical heroine and the hero-narrator open the opportunity to live else’s life. The ways of its development differ in the poetry and prose by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya.

Keywords: N. D. Khvoshhinskaya, the story “Behind the wall”, the interaction of poetry and prose, the motif of observation, fiction, the middle of the 19th century, woman’s emancipation

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