Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Poetics of the Interpretative Ecphrasis in Valentin Rasputin’s Story “Izba”

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (5)
Authors
Stepanova, Vasilina А.; Степанова, В.А.
Contact information
Stepanova, Vasilina А.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail: ; Степанова, В.А.:Сибирский федеральный университет Россия, 660041, Красноярск, пр. Свободный, 79
Keywords
V. Rasputin; story “Izba”; interpretative ecphrasis; heterotopia
Abstract

The article discusses the peculiarities of the interpretative ecphrasis in V. Rasputin’s story “Izba1”. The particular interest of contemporary literature studies to the problem of the intermedial poetics is associated with the replacement of the cultural paradigm: moving from literocentrism to art-centrism. The poetics of the interpretative ecphrasis allows us to consider the text in a metatextual way. In the story, many plot-forming constructs typical for the traditional prose are generally transformed: coming out to war, continuing the traditions, getting ready to die or inter oneself, destructing and reconstructing cosmogonia. The space of the izba in the story is described as “other place” (heterotopia). The surrounding world in the exegesis is chaotic and, moreover, eschatological. The analysis of the ecphrasis allows us to understand and determine all these meaningful constructs. Thus, the izba remains to be heterotopia based on its own axis mundi, and consequently able to stand against the chaos of the “worn-out” world. Agafya’s izba itself, which has become a spiritual shelter in heterotopia, is a tree of life, some place for the righteous and sinful people to meet. Such transformations show the loss of previous utopian ideals and the attempt to find alternatives to being inside the space of chaos, which in turn is a sign of moving from traditionalism

Pages
790-797
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10363

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