"It seems I saw them myself": the confrontation between man and superpersonal forces in the novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann "Doge and Dogaressa" and in the oeuvre of Russian poets of the late XIX - early XX centurie
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The relevance of the study lies in the scientific significance of the study of the multimodal nature of the artistic literary text, in which the problems of human existence find a verbal-visual, verbal-sound embodiment, as well as in the significance of the study of the transfer of a verbal-visual image with a moral and philosophical plan of content from one national historical context to another. The article examines the dialogue of Russian poets-readers with the "Venetian novel" by E. T. A. Hoffmann "Doge and Dogaressa" in the aspect of semantic confrontation between personality and superpersonal power (from the power of mighty fate, the visible hypostasis of which becomes the sea, to divine providence), while the relationship in the poetics of the visual (landscape, ekphrasis, color-light solutions, subject detail) and abstract-conceptual (freedom, power, dream, soul, fate, providence) finds an individual drawing in Hoffmann's reception by Russian poets of the late XIX – early XX centuries, including through the unfinished poem by A.S. Pushkin "The night is quiet, in a heavenly field... In the process of analysis, a comprehensive literary approach is used, combining historical-cultural, comparative-typological, comparative, mythopoetic methods. It is shown that the mystical plan of Hoffmann's novel, dating back to the religious and philosophical concepts of spirituality and the power of nature, turns out to be dominant in the value-semantic structure of Doge and Dogaress. Visualization techniques give artistic elaboration to matrimonial and metaphysical motives. Functionally significant in this aspect "sea" microplots, symbols are highlighted. Attention is paid to the emblematic detail ("wounded dove"), emphasizing the angelic principle in the image of the heroine. The "picturesque" scenes presented (in particular, the night sea voyage) turned out to be in demand by domestic poets. The novelty of the study is due to the fact that the poetics of the studied works revealed the systemic presence of visual as a picture visualization in the context of the conflict between superpersonal forces and heroes, which manifested itself in the diverse development of the transmission of the mystical principle associated with the "human" and foreign essence of the Adriatic; with an expression of a foreign point of view. The private plot of the Venetian text of culture is first covered as a cultural myth in demand in Russian literature, containing ambivalently the motives of the power of beauty and "beauty" of power, loyalty and betrayal, man and nature, immanent and transcendental, superpersonal forces and freedom of personality.
Source: Филология научные исследования
Institution: Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7117974415