Kirill Turovsky’s “The Word for Antipascha” as a Monument of Eloquence Within the Framework of Medieval Literary Custom
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyzes the structure, content and artistic features of Kirill Turovsky’s “Words for the New Week on Easter or Anti-Easter.” The author reveals the multifaceted composition of the work, reflecting Kirill’s diverse and multidimensional thinking using a traditional set of rhetorical techniques. Noting the connection of the Old Russian speaker with the unified Greek-Byzantine and South Slavic kallological tradition, the researcher compares Kirill’s oratory with such Russian masters of the word as Metropolitan Hilarion, Metropolitan Cyprian and Epiphanius the Wise, emphasizing the common features in their literary manner. Like them, the Turovsky speaker used single-handedness, enumerative constructions, phrasal, lexical and morphological repetitions, semantic and pictorial antitheses, syntactic parallelism and rhythmization of the verbal flow, biblical and gymnographic images, quotations, allusions, paraphrases, dramatic form of an appeal to the gospel story. In general, the article reveals the meaning of the “Word for Antipascha” as an outstanding literary and theological work.
Source: Studia Litterarum
Author: Vladimir M. Kirillin
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7147533987