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THE AUTHOR’S CONTINUATION IN THE NOVEL HERO: ABOUT THE POSSIBLE SOURCES OF THE M.M. BAKHTIN’S FORMULA

Ivanitskii A.I.

Aleksandr I. Ivanitskii, DSc in Philology, Leading Researcher, Russian State University for Humanities, Miusskaya Square., 6, 125993, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: meisster@mail.ru

Abstract

The folklore fairy ballad can show the universally psychological base of the author’s continuation in the novel hero, that was described by M.M. Bakhtin. On the one hand, the ballad had reflected the evolution of the initiatory relations with the personified fairy Nature and its agent in the various folklore genres. The result of this evolution, including under the influence of the church, would the mutual lovely attraction, that had assumed the total self-continuing in each other as the antipodes. On the other hand, the ballad lyricism had allowed the executor to identify himself in the hero and to continue himself in the hero’s face in the fairy counterparty. The hero of the social-psychological novel had replaced for the author the fairy counterparty. But the self-continuing in the hero gad lost its initiatory base and so was no more reflected.

Keywords

the author’s continuation in the hero; the ballad lyricism; the personified fairy Nature; the initiatory contact; the evolution of the folklore models

Recieved

15.08.2021

Accepted

10.09.2021

For citation

Ivanitskii, A.I. “The author’s Continuation in the Novel Hero: About the Possible Sources of the M.M. Bakhtin’s Formulaˮ. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 4(54), 2021, pp. 134–154. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2021.54.08

DOI: 10.31249/litzhur/2021.54.08

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