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Title of Article

«I AM ALWAYS GLAD TO NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE»: INTERIOR MIRRORS IN «EUGENE ONEGIN»


Issue
3
Date
2021

Article type
scientific article
UDC
821.161.1
Pages
60-75
Keywords
А.С. Пушкин, «Евгений Онегин», система «внутренних зеркал», микрофилологический подход к тексту, A. Pushkin, «Eugene Onegin», «interior mirrors» system, microphilololgical approach to literary text


Authors
Dovgiy Olga Lvovna
Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni M.V. Lomonosova


Abstract
The paper presents a new testing of the microphilological approach to the literary text. The particularity of this interpretive method is in the constant striving for defamiliarisation arising from the fixation of the smallest shifts at the microlevels of the text; the most frequent rotation of the research kaleidoscope. Reading texts through the prism of the system of "interior mirrors" is an organic part of the author's method presented in the article. By "interior mirrors" we mean repetitions at different levels of text. This is the use of the same words to denote different, often opposite things and actions, according to the principle of diaphora. Each word used by the poet more than once can be viewed as a mirror reflecting some facet of the novel world. The more times a word is repeated, the wider the coverage of the reflection is. But a single pair of repetitions can also be very important. The definition of "interior mirrors" expresses the very essence of the phenomenon: interior - because they can be traced at various levels of the text; mirrors - because the very principle of a mirror is not a repetition, but a reflection with a change (albeit barely noticeable). This is a very convenient way to "notice the difference". The fixation and analysis of interior mirrors of various text levels makes it possible to constantly change the optics, since it allows you to read a work by choosing as a "key" any word that occurs more than once. «Onegin» provides an excellent opportunity to illustrate this method of interpretation. Reduplication system of the novel can provide material for a book. The article highlights only some of the interior mirrors of the novel at the level of vocabulary, grammar, phonetics, rhyme.

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