THE CATEGORIES OF LAW AND GRACE IN LERMONTOV’S POETICS
Journal Title: Проблемы исторической поэтики - Year 2014, Vol 12, Issue
Abstract
The article substantiates the necessity of a new interpretation of Lermontov's works in terms of the categories of Russian philology which emerged over the last decades. In one way or another, all of them go back to the notion of the unity of the Russian culture and actualize various aspects of this culture. The mental model of a preference for the "above the law" freedom to the "legalistic" necessity dominates Lermontov's art world. The ideal, which Lermontov, as well as a number of his characters, would like to put into practice, is unattainable not only in Russia or any other country, but also in general on earth. Relations above the law are inherent in the ideal space of Holy Russia rather than the historical Russia. However, these very above the law relations were recognized both by Russian writers and their readers as a spiritual, ethical and aesthetical reference point of a kind. Through the collision of "the ideal" and "the reality", which researchers mostly trace back to the romantic paradigm, shines the fundamental opposition of Law and Grace and that penetrates the whole space from medieval to modern Russian literature.
Authors and Affiliations
Ivan Esaulov
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP467294
- DOI 10.15393/j9.art.2014.728
- Views 122
- Downloads 0
KIRGHIZ STEPPE IN THE TRAVEL NOTES AND ESSAYS OF M. M. PRISHVIN: IMAGOLOGY AND POETICS
The article investigates the cross-cutting images and themes related to topography of the Kirghiz steppe (now North-Eastern Kazakhstan) in the works of M. M. Prishvin. Three early Prishvin’s texts — a Siberian diary “A J...
PROVOCATION OF THE FANTASY: MYSTIFICATED QUOTATION OF D. S. MEREZHKOVSKY AS A LITERARY FACT IN N. V. GOGOL STUDIES
At the beginning of the 20th century, half a century after the death of Gogol, in the periodicals of that time along with the memoirs of his last days of life appeared a story about how the writer’s spiritual father, arc...
THE GOSPEL TEXT AND SUBTEXT IN THE STORIES “THE DAUGHTER OF A HIGH OFFICIAL” BY IVAN PANAYEV AND “THE PAINTER” BY VLADIMIR ODOYEVSKY
Ivan Panayev’s story “The Daughter of a High Official” and Vladimir Odoyevsky’s story “The Painter” were published in the journal “Otechestvennye Zapiski” (“Domestic notes”) in 1839. The plots of these stories are simila...
FOUR PRAYERS OF MIKHAIL LERMONTOV
Lermontov's contemporaries were against the judgments about the poet's “amorality” and “lack of religious belief”, who was, in fact, a truly devoted Orthodox Christian. This is reflected in his poetry: four works out of...
RESURRECTION MOTIF IN THE WORKS OF LEONID ANDREEV
This article is devoted to the problem of resurrection which was widely spread in Silver age philosophy and literature. Basing on the New Testament, Russian philosophers N. Fyodorov and V. Solovyov associated the resurre...