Cite this article as:

Zakharov K. M. Waiting for Game. To the Question of the XIXth Century Russian Drama Poetics. Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2012, vol. 12, iss. 4, pp. 58-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2012-12-4-58-61

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Heading:

Literary criticism

Language:

Russian

Waiting for Game. To the Question of the XIXth Century Russian Drama Poetics

The article studies the motif of waiting for game situation that often occurs in the story-line of the XIXth century Russian comedies, gives ground for its essential importance for the plot-building and creating the characters of the plays, points to the connection of this intertextual situation with the reality of the Russian society, its social, moral and psychological climate.

Authors:

Zakharov

Kirill

Mikhailovich

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Saratov State University

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Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83

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zahodite@list.ru

Key words:

Russian drama, motif, card game, suspense, Gogol, Lermontov, Sukhovo-Kobylin