Open AccessMANOR TOPOS AND GENRE SPECIFICITY OF TURGENEV’s NOVEL
Author(s) -
Ребель Галина Михайловна
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. istoriâ i filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2454
pISSN - 2412-9534
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-6-1055-1060
Subject(s) - topos theory , hero , ethos , ideology , plot (graphics) , literature , pathos , aesthetics , philosophy , sociology , art , linguistics , law , mathematics , politics , political science , statistics
The article polemically comprehends the practice of considering the manor topos as a genre-defining feature of Turgenev's novel, since this strategy ignores the plot logic, the content of the main characters, the essence of their relationships and the final meanings of the works. In addition, this approach inevitably destroys the aesthetic unity of Turgenev's work, because “Smoke” and “Virgin Soil” do not fit into the “manor” genre paradigm, even at the level of formal criteria. In this article, based on the material of Turgenev's novels - mainly those in which there is a “Turgenev’s girl” (“Rudin”, “A Nest of Gentlefolk”, “On the Eve”, “Virgin Soil”), - it is shown that the vector of the heroine's fate is directed from the manor world to the big world of search and struggle. The thirst for active good lies at the heart of the choice of the heroine: her chosen one, in contrast to the usual environment, is a spokesman of the spirit of the time, a hero of time, which opens up new horizons of life for her. The plot logic of Turgenev's novel is due not to the chamber circumstances of the life of a noble estate, but to the pathos of the ideas proclaimed by the hero and the thirst for self-realization of the characters in a socially significant field. This determines the genre specificity of Turgenev's novel as an ideological novel.