Genre potential of the lyrical etude cycle in the disclosure of émigré consciousness in mod-ern small prose of the Russian abroad
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The article studies the genre of the lyrical cycle productive in Russian foreign small prose, this genre is an organic form for expressing emigrant consciousness.The analysis of representative samples (the cycle "A City for a Storyteller (lyrical etudes)" by N. Sundeev and the cycle "Florida Etudes" by M. Morgulis) proves that the cycle of lyrical etudes is one of the genres, which can adequately express a lyrical experience and represent a mosaic of feelings and sensations experienced by the emigrant of the 21st century who fits into another space.He does not oppose the categories "ours" to "theirs", but reconciles them, addressing supranational, timeless things.The rhythmic and melodic organization of the text, in which the plot movement is determined by the development and gradation of the characters' mental states, is of special importance in such works.In the analyzed cycles, "etudes", as a specific genre definition, indicate the dominance of the lyrical-associative aspect, associated with emotionality, with the poetics of incompleteness, suggesting the activation of the readers' co-creation process.The article reveals the similarity of genre trends in small prose of the first and fourth waves of Russian emigration (actualization of its lyrical nature, the surge of small genres of lyrical prose).
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3000289258