Article

Name: The formation of provincial stories in the Russian literature of the end of 18th – the first third of the 19th century

Authors: Kozlov Aleksey Evgenyevich

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper investigates the genesis and formation of provincial stories. At first the author considers the interconnection of the provincial plots with the three main sources: Russian comedial, publicistic, and prosaic works of late Sentimentalists and Romanticists. Analysis of these spheres makes it possible to identify the main processes in the formation of the plots under investigation: metonymy and metaphor, parody, and reduction. In conclusion it is stated that provincial stories as a united structure were preparing the provincial text of the Russian 19th century literature.

Keywords: russian literature, provincial story, writing of comedies, sentimentalism, romanticism

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