Epic, Lyrical and Dramatic Story in Theoretical and Historical Aspects: Chronicle of the All-Russian Conference “Theory of Literary Plot / Narratology – 6”

This article presents the chronicle of the “Theory of Literary Plot / Narratology – 6” conference, held on May 14–16, 2019, by the Literary Studies Department of the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS). About 60 reports, prepared by researchers working in educational and scientific institutions of Siberia (Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Rubtsovsk), as well as of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm and other cities, were delivered at the conference.Same as in previous years, this traditional conference was dedicated to the problems of creating a Dictionary of subjects and motifs of Russian literature (the work on compiling this multi-volume book is being carried out in the departments for the second decade). At the conference, the questions of literary plot theory and motif were discussed, the plot was taken as a concept of narratology, the history of specific plots was reconstructed, the review of plot and motif thesauruses of individual authors or works was made. The plot was considered in relation to the intertext in the motif – poetic path – poetic formula – name – word series of notions, taking into account the opposition of lyrical and epic, anarrative and narrative.In addition to theoretical reports, as well as studies reconstructing the transversal history of certain plots, works on the narratology and motif theory of the Siberian texts were also presented at the conference. The subject structure of opinion journalism (separately or in comparison with artistic subject structures) and multigenre works were also considered. A separate section was devoted to the ancient literature, and a rather large group (about a dozen) of researchers focused on the study of the lyrical plot, although the main interest was traditionally focused on the study of epos.