On the Poetics of Irina Polyanskaya’s Story "The Pencil Case"

Authors

  • Aleksandr Stepanov Tverskoi gosudarstvennyi universitet, Kafedra istorii i teorii literarury, 170002 Tver, Prospekt Chaikovskogo, 70; Lanzhou universitet, Insititut inostrannykh yazykov i literatur, Fakultet russkogo yazyka, 730000 Lanzhou (China), ul. Tianshui, 222 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5342-3945

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.13.18

Keywords:

poetics, analysis and interpretation, metaphor, Irina Polyanskaya

Abstract

The subject of research is the poetics of Irina Polyanskaya’s story “Penal” (“The Pencil Case”). Deliberations on the specific character of a “feminine mode” of writing (cf. Helene Cixous) usually mention an enhanced physicality, subjectivity, irrationality, nonlinearity, fragmentation, imitation of non-literary forms and limiting the presentation to the private sphere. These characteristics are equally present in the works of many a male author, therefore considering them signs of women’s writing is hardly correct. I am interested in the poetics of the story not as an embodiment of a special, feminine worldview, but as a process of meaning formation, one allowing Polyanskaya to convey individual authorial meanings, including gender-marked ones. I try to trace the semantic dynamics of the key image which is present in the title and which defines the semantic structure of the text. The purpose of the article is to show how the author “works” with the language, with material detail, creating a mature and original work.

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Author Biography

Aleksandr Stepanov, Tverskoi gosudarstvennyi universitet, Kafedra istorii i teorii literarury, 170002 Tver, Prospekt Chaikovskogo, 70; Lanzhou universitet, Insititut inostrannykh yazykov i literatur, Fakultet russkogo yazyka, 730000 Lanzhou (China), ul. Tianshui, 222

Степанов Александр Геннадьевич – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры истории и теории литературы Тверского государственного университета; преподаватель русского языка и литературы Института иностранных языков Ланьчжоуского университета (Китай). Научные интересы: поэтика, стиховедение, стилистика, русская поэзия XIX–XXI вв., поэзия И. Бродского. Из недавних работ: ≪Поэма осени≫ Рубена Дарио в переводе Геннадия Шмакова и ≪Пьяцца Маттeи≫ Иосифа Бродского: проблема влияния, [в:] Авторитетът на смисъла. Теория и интерпретации: сборник в чест на доц. д-р Атанас Бучков. Пловдив: Пловдивски Университет «Паисий Хилендарски» 2019, с. 247–258; Осторожно, парад! Стихотворение Олега Чухонцева ≪Репетиция парада≫, «Шаги / Steps» 2019, т. 5, № 2, с. 136–148; Что видит Другой: русская живопись глазами китайских студентов, [в:] Другой в литературе и культуре: сборник научных трудов: в 2 т., Москва: Новое литературное обозрение 2019, т. 1, с. 332–351.

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Published

2020-08-28

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Stepanov, A. (2020). On the Poetics of Irina Polyanskaya’s Story "The Pencil Case". Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, (13), 201–211. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.13.18

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