Information about the author:
George S. Prokhorov
George S. Prokhorov, DSc in Philology, Professor, State University of Social Studies and Humanities, Zelyonaya St., 30, 140410 Kolomna, Russia.
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4652-8698
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Abstract
The article contains an approach to how writers of rhetorical traditionalism and creative poetical paradigm interact with literary tradition. Dissecting the Lyro-Epic Hymn on the Expulsion of the French from the Fatherland by G. Derzhavin, the Eulogi- um in Front of the Dead Body of Great Emperor Alexander the First by Moses the Bish- op (Bogdanov-Platonov-Antipov), The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostoevsky, the essay A.M. Bukharev by N.P. Hiliarov-Platonov, and contemporary midrashim by E. Frankel, the author traces a shift from the customization of traditional fables to their rewriting and reinterpretation. Since the Romanticism, writers have rather focused on the Zeitgeist and a time gap between their cultural epoch and the past than on framing of events around them into old fables. Aesthetic vision of the creative poetical paradigm demands a coexistence of the precedential and the new; thus, the literature of the last two centuries is turned into a collection of varied neo-styles.
Keywords: cultural precedent, innovation, plot, fabula, adaptation, aesthetic strategies, historical poetics.
