Analepsis: “Retrospection” or an “Excursion into the Past”?

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https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.13.16

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analepsis, retrospection, excursion into the past, remembrance device, analepsis motivation devices, dominant analepsis, non-dominant analepsis

Abstract

Possible motivations for analepsis as a plot-shaping device are analyzed in the paper. In the Russian scholarship this device is interpreted either as retrospection introduced by remembrances, or as an excursion into the past conditioned by auctorial activity. An analysis of Yuri Polyakov’s novella Apofegei, supported by references to other Russian works, demonstrates that to motivate analepsis not only remembrance but also many other devices are used, such as introducing a new referent, anadiplosis of informative contexts, or an announced message. That is why the author of the paper proposes to use along with the terms retrospection and excursion into the past also the terms dominant analepsis and non-dominant analepsis. It is underlined that both the retrospection built on basis of a character’s remembrances and excursions into the past produced by the narrator’s constructing activity can be used within the frames of dominant and non-dominant analepses.

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Aleksandr Efimenko, Lanzhou universitet, Insititut inostrannykh yazykov i literatur, Fakultet russkogo yazyka, 730000 Lanzhou (China), ul. Tianshui, 222

Ефименко Александр Евгеньевич – преподаватель Института иностранных языков Ланьчжоуского университета (Китай). Научные интересы: нарратология; уровни структуры художественного текста; диегезис, фабула и сюжет; типология мотивировок; русский формализм; советский и французский структурализм. Из недавних работ: А. К. Жолковский и Ю. К. Щеглов: поиски порождения текста, [в:] Профессия: литератор. Год рождения: 1937: коллективная монография, Елец: Елецкий гос. ун-т им. И. А. Бунина 2017, с. 163–172; ≪Смерть Ивана Ильича≫ Л. Н. Толстого: мотивировки порождения диегезиса, [в:] Интерпретация текста: лингвистический, литературоведческий и методический аспекты: материалы XI Междунаролой научной конференции, Чита: Забайкальск. гос. ун-т 2018, с. 36–39; От ‘sujet’ к ‘сюжету’ и далее к ‘syuzhet’, «Шаги / Steps» 2019, т. 5, № 2, с. 10–35.

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2020-08-28

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Efimenko, A. (2020). Analepsis: “Retrospection” or an “Excursion into the Past”? . Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, (13), 173–187. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.13.16

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