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A.M. Gorky Institute
of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

IWL RAS Publishing

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 IWL RAS

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  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Svetlana G. Semyonova
  • Pages: 508-529
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: Creative Heritage of M.A. Sholokhov at the Beginning of the 21st Century
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0650-5-508-529
  • Year of publication: 2022
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Semyonova, S.G. “People’s Laughter Culture in the Work of Sholokhov.” Creative Heritage of M.A. Sholokhov at the Beginning of the 21st Сеntury. Ex. ed. Yury A. Dvoryashin. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2022, pp. 508–529. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0650-5-508-529

About the author:

Svetlana G. Semyonova, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

Abstract:

A system of comic images and motifs in the works of M.A. Sholokhov is analyzed, taking its origins in the culture of folk humor. Most fully it is embodied in his novels Quiet Flows the Don and Virgin Soil Upturned, representing the opposition of laughter to the tragic period and persistence of people’s worldview.

  • Keywords: M.A. Sholokhov, the culture of laughter, comic themes and motifs, transformation and reduction of canonical meanings.

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