Myth and history in eschatology of Gogol’s “Viy”

Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki

Svetlana O. Egorova¹ 

[1] Volgograd Аcademy of MIA, Volgograd, Russian Federation;

关键词: Gogol;    myth;    story;    eschatology;    personified land;    infantilization of a character;    decline of Cossacks;    fable;    fairy tale;    ballade;   

DOI  :  10.18522/1995-0640-2016-3-26-35

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article reveals the historical background of the eschatological final of the narrative «Viy» by N.V. Gogol. It is shown that personified historic decline of Cossacks in Homa Brutus is manifested in its infantilization leading the character and chthonic world of evil to total disaster. It is noted that at the level of the poetics the traditional myth andfolk situation of the meeting of the young man and the witch is translatedby Gogol from the genre of true stories and fairy tales into the genre of ballads, reflecting the lyrical feelings of the character due to his connection with the «other» world.

【 授权许可】

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