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“My Motherland is the Captain’s Daughter”: Prishvin as a Reader

  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Ivan A. Esaulov
  • Pages: 261–269
  • 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: Mikhail Prishvin’s Literary Heritage: The Context of National and World Culture
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0780-9-21-261-269
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/IERMIC
  • Year of publication: 2024
  • Place of publication: Moscow

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  • Esaulov, I.A. “ʽMy Motherland is the Captain’s Daughter’: Prishvin as a Reader.” Literaturnoe nasledie Mikhaila Prishvina: kontekst otechestvennoi i mirovoi kul’tury [Mikhail Prishvin’s Literary Heritage: The Context of National and World Culture], ed.-comp. Elena Yu. Кnorre, Anastasia G. Gacheva. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 261–269. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0780-9-21-261-269

Information about the author:

Ivan A. Esaulov

Ivan A. Esaulov, DSc in Philology, Professor, Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing, Tverskoy Blvd., 25, 123104 Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract:

The article examines in detail the diary entry of M.M. Prishvin on September 7, 1933, in which the writer likens Pushkin’s novel “The Captain’s Daughter” to his true homeland (in contrast to the real-biographical Yelets and St. Petersburg). The analysis of the entry takes account of the context of the ideological and historical realities of the first decades of Soviet power and the dominant trends concerning historical Russia. The article uses the categories of “relative” and “absolute” mythology (A.F. Losev), as well as “small” and “great” time (M.M. Bakhtin).

  • Keywords: homeland, big time, small time, relative and absolute mythologies.

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