Key Images and Motifs in V.G. Rasputin’s Novella “Money for Maria” (Philological Analysis)

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  • Ekaterina V. Ogoltseva Moscow State Pedagogical University

Abstract

Ekaterina V. Ogoltseva (Moscow, Russian Federation)

The article presents a philological analysis of the story by V.G. Rasputin “Money for Maria”. The author sees the task of such an analysis in a harmonious combination of elements of literary and linguistic approaches. The subject of the research is a system of linguistic means of different levels, united around the dominant psychological characteristics of the main character – the state of anxiety and expectation. The motif of uncertainty is considered as the central in the story with a number of semantic associated oppositions: light – darkness, dream – reality, own – someone else’s, peace – anxiety, real – unreal. It is shown that the whole system of pictorial means of the story correlates with these oppositions. It is identified such key imagessymbols as wind, money, snow, etc. Elements of the “form” – the twists and turns of the plot, features of the composition, the lack of resolution of the event conflict, the entire system of linguistic expressive means – serve to express a borderline, a turning point in the fate of the main characters. The article considers syntactic, morphological, word-forming means associated with the hierarchical system “motive – semantic oppositions – key images-symbols”. The approach presented in the article contributes to the most accurate interpretation of the author’s artistic intention. The text of the story appears, on the one hand, as a complex aesthetic phenomenon, and on the other, as a specially organized system of linguistic means, subordinated to the author’s intention.

Key words: motif, image, symbol, linguostylistic analysis, psychological characteristics, stylistic device.

DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2021-2-133-146

Author Biography

Ekaterina V. Ogoltseva, Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ekaterina V. Ogoltseva – grand Ph.D. of Philology, associate professor; professor. Moscow (Russia), Moscow State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Philology, Department of the Russian Language. Moscow, Russian Federation.

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Published

2021-06-30

How to Cite

Ogoltseva Е. В. . (2021). Key Images and Motifs in V.G. Rasputin’s Novella “Money for Maria” (Philological Analysis). Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, 25(2), 133–146. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1615

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2021)

Section

LITERATURE STUDY

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