Character in the Short Prose of Ivan Sergeevič Turgenev / / Sander Brouwer.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics ; volume 25
• VerfasserIn: Brouwer, Sander,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : BRILL,, 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; volume 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 307 pages).

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction. CHAPTER 1. Some general considerations on literary character. 1.0 Preliminaries. 1.1 Some reasons for discontent. 1.2 The Formalist contribution. 1.3 The actantial approach. 1.4 Further structuralist approaches. 1.5 The semiotic dilemma. 1.6 'Verbal art' and 'narrative art'. 1.7 Levels of the narrative text. 1.8 Thematical qualities of characters at the level of story. 1.9 Properties of non-actual individuals. 1.10 Identifying a personality model. CHAPTER 2. Literary character in Turgenev's prose. 2.1 Some problems of Turgenev's prose. 2.2 State or understate? 2.3 Narrator and character. 2.4 Individual existence and the problem of meaning. 2.4.1 Hamlet and Don Quixote. 2.5 Novels and stories. 2.6 The paradigmatic image of character. 2.6.1 Invariant event structure. 2.6.2 The transgression scheme in Turgenev's short prose. 2.7 The cultural context. CHAPTER 3. Notes of a Hunter. 3.1 Oppositions. 3.2 Contrast. 3.3 Hunting. 3.4 Ambiguity of the hunter figure. CHAPTER 4. Be_in Meadow. 4.1 Indirect characterization of the I-narrator. 4.2 Direct and indirect characterization of the boys. 4.3 Characterization as the result of thematic equivalences. CHAPTER 5. Mumu. 5.1 The theme. 5.2 Thematic and formal equivalences. 5.3 Intertextual equivalences. 5.3.1 Vasilij Buslaev. 5.3.2 St. Christopher. 5.4 Conclusion. CHAPTER 6. A Journey into Poles'e. 6.1 A journey into Nature. 6.2 The motif of silence. 6.3 The forest as 'anti-space'. 6.4 Efrem. 6.5 Egor. 6.6 The opposites converge. CHAPTER 7. The Dog. 7.1 Generic context. Style. 7.2 Thematic equivalences: the dogs. 7.3 The theme of sight. 7.4 Miracle-tale structure. 7.5 Cherchez la femme! 7.6 Redeeming dog and Aleksander Herzen. CHAPTER 8. Punin and Baburin. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Narrative perspective. 8.3 Characterization on the level of story. 8.3.1 Baburin. 8.3.2 Punin. 8.3.3 Petr Petrovi?c?. 8.3.4 Muza Pavlovna. 8.4 Literary motifs. 8.5 The motif of the garden. 8.6 Baburin's name and outward appearance. 8.7 Conclusion. Conclusions. Fährtensuche. Nachwort. Von Rainer Grübel. References.