Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / K.M. Fofanov and V.A. Zhukovsky (on Peculiarities of Literary Reflection of Pre-Symbolist Time)

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (5)
Authors
Anisimova, Evgeniya E.
Contact information
Anisimova, Evgeniya E.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords
Zhukovsky; Fofanov; literary jubilee; canonization of the classics; biography; aesthetic perception; motif; ballad
Abstract

The article traces Konstantin Fofanov’s perception of V.A. Zhukovsky’s poetical heritage. As it is shown in the article, Fofanov’s understanding of “the first Russian romanticist’s” literary biography contains genre, motif and life-creating aspects. Their analysis leads to the conclusion about a forging influence of Zhukovsky’s artistic world on the lyrical system of Fofanov as a pre-symbolist. Fofanov’s musings about Zhukovsky caused an occasion to express his understanding of the Russian literary classics and to put a crucial question about the correlation between verse and prose as two different types of the writer’s self-affirmation. Another set of motifs associated with Zhukovsky derives from Fofanov’s visit to the ceremony of the opening of Zhukovsky’s monument in 1887. This fact was rethought by Fofanov in the perspective of a famous poetic theme – exegi monumentum. Finally the “ballad fear”, introduced to Russian literature by Zhukovsky, acquires distinct social connotations in Fofanov’s interpretation while the ballad genre starts functioning as a part of socially-oriented literature

Pages
748-756
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10358

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