CONCEPT OF FOOD IN THE NOVEL «VILNA COMMUNARDS» BY M. HARETSKYY IN THE CONTEXT OF LITERATURE GASTRONOMIC TRADITIONS 1920–30’s
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 276, Issue 264
Abstract
The article is devoted to the category of food, that determines the ideological and aesthetic features of the novel «Vilna Communards» by modernist Belarusian Maxim Haretskyy, whose creative career was prematurely cut short by Soviet repressive mechanism. The purpose of our study – to analyze the specific features of the food concept and gastronomic сode in the novel by Belarusian writer. The object of the study – the novel by M. Haretskyy «Vilna Communards». The subject of the study – the specificity of the food concept and features of gastronomic code in the novel «Vilna Communards». It was found, that the concept of food appears as a crucial in the semiotics of the novel. And gastronomic code is a key factor, that forms senses in the text. It also models reading vector, foregrounds the important committed and ideological antinomies and causes its aesthetics and stylistics. The chronology of the events in the novel by M. Haretskyy – both personal life of the hero-narrator, and social and political events – has the gastronomic marks and is integral to line of food. So continuity of historical and gastronomic narrative, the concept of history and the concept of food unity, the syncretism of eventfulness and food imagery are typical for text. Such syncretism eventfulness and food imagery is generally inherent in carnival tradition. So for the artist it is a triggers for carnival text, and combined with the Trickster-greedy image it forms the key tone of the text and its style features – the carnival, tragicomedy, mixing high and low, the totality of the gastronomic symbols and the unity of history and food at consept level.
Authors and Affiliations
N. Gorodnyuk
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP232476
- DOI -
- Views 62
- Downloads 0
MEETINGS AND FAREWELLS OF G. KOSTIUK: TRAGIC TRUTH OR OUTSIDE THE «SOVIET»
The end of the twentieth century was characterized by a new wave of Ukrainian cultural revival and dictated by the dramatic dynamics of the life of the Ukrainian nation and the urgent need to rethink national history. Th...
MENTAL SPACE IN INTEGRATIVE MODEL OF THE Ap. GRIGORIEV
Creative heritage of the Ap. Grigoriev occupies a special place in the history of literary criticism of the mid of XIX century. However, there is no active interest to it in the modern literature science. Applying differ...
THE BIG PERSPECTIVE OF DARA KORNIY’S SHORT PROSE: MYTHOPOETIC ASPECT
The psychology of art remains a controversial and poorly studied area of literary criticism. The intensive myth-making in Ukrainian literature of the XXI century is a harmonious component of global trends and is connecte...
AESTHETIC PLATFORM OF THE LITERARY ORGANIZATION «LANKA»–MARS: EUROPEAN VECTOR
The presence of the literary organization «Lanka»–MARS discourse in Ukrainian literature is indisputable fact. «Lanchiany» were part of the progressive artistic youth who tried and tried to make literature, based on mode...
COMMUNICATIVE FEATURES OF LYRICAL TEXTS OF GULAG PRISONERS (BASED ON PRISON POETRY OF VASYL STUS, JAN ZAHRADNICHEK AND VICTOR BOKOV)
The present article deals with the communication features of lyrical texts were written in prison conditions. In this article we try to combine the analysis of the literary text and the processes of literary communcation...