Article

Name: “Anna Karenina” – of Dostoevsky. The Incident of Rhetoric

Authors: Yurii V. Shatin

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The article considers a special case of rhetoric in which the discourse invented by the author gains illocutionary power over the creator and begins to dictate speech strategies and narratives that do not agree with previous intentions and completely change the author’s ideas about goals and objectives of artistic whole. Among such cases is the interpretation of Levin’s image in eighth part of “Anna Karenina”, which was reflected in Dostoevsky’s “Diary of Writer” for 1877. The discourse of war inventing by Dostoevsky was used to justify the Russian – Turkish operation and thereby came into conflict with the discourse of misunderstanding of the nature of war, characteristic of Tolstoy. The desire to condemn the position of protagonist of Tolstoy’s novel forced Dostoevsky to abandon the most principle of his artistic thinking and poetics associated with polyphony and use rhetoric techniques that are questionable from the point of the validity.

Keywords: “Diary of writer”, “Anna Karenina”, rhetoric, discourse, narrative, interpretation

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