The author’s “I” of G.D. Grebenshchikov through the prism of compositional-stylistic description (based on military journalism of the early 20th century)
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: INTRODUCTION. The relevance of the research is due to the necessity of filling the gap in the study of the journalistic legacy of G.D. Grebenshchikov. After the writer's emigration in 1920, his name was forgotten in Soviet Russia, which for many years excluded his work from the realm of academic study. Despite the increased interest at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in the personality of G.D. Grebenshchikov and his artistic texts, the writer’s journalism still hadn’t become the subject of thorough analysis. The aim of the study is to examine the ways of expressing the author’s “I” in the journalism of G.D. Grebenshchikov based on the genre peculiarities of the journalistic texts he created during the pivotal years of World War I.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research material consists of G.D. Grebenshchikov’s journalistic texts from the wartime period (1916–1917). A comprehensive linguistic analysis method was used, combining techniques of semantic, stylistic, interpretative, compositional, and comparative analysis, as well as techniques of genre modeling of texts. RESEARCH RESULTS. An analysis of the genre-forming features of the texts is conducted, examining three ways of expressing the author’s “I” in the journalism of G.D. Grebenshchikov: 1) as a participant in events, 2) as an observer, and 3) as a reflective subject. A relationship between the expression of the author’s “I” and the genre organization of the texts is established. CONCLUSION. It has been revealed that texts exhibiting features of journalistic genres embody the author’s position as a participant in events. In texts gravitating toward fiction, the author emerges as a reflective subject. The author’s position as an observer is complementary to the other two modes of expressing the author’s “I”.
Source: Neophilology
Authors: E. V. Lebedeva, T. V. Chernyshova
Institution: Altai State University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7166751963