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• Leonid Andreyev’s Panpsychic Drama “Requiem”

  Katalin H. Végh

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  This article examines the role of Leonid Andreyev’s work in the emergence of the New Drama in Russia and, through an analysis of the play Requiem, highlights the genre-specific and formal characteristics of panpsychic dramas. The author emphasises that Andreyev’s panpsychic drama is a groundbreaking experiment that demonstrates just how far the concept of the dramatic genre can be expanded. The text of the panpsychic drama shows that eventfulness, previously considered one of the main criteria of drama, is by no means fundamental in the New Drama. In this way, the frequency of external events decreases, while the significance of internal events increases, and the role of mental and psychological events becomes increasingly important. On the other hand, Andreyev’s dramatic text already contains within itself an impoverishment of the referential function of artistic language, and the pursuit of the autonomy of tropes becomes the organizing principle of the drama’s structure. These phenomena give Andreyev's drama panpsyche special significance on the way to the contemporary understanding of the New Drama.

   

   

• Metaphors in Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s Short Story ”The Queen of Spades”

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  Angelika Molnár

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  In this paper it opens up how Lyudmila Ulitskaya in her short story “The Queen of Spades”develops the crisis situation whichher heroes getsinto. So, the problems of the crisis should beanalysed also from a broader perspective, however, we will confine ourselves to only one rather narrow aspect of the analysis of poetic utterance, namely the tropological one.The chosen (mechanical and animalistic) metaphors are connected with the figure of the main heroine and also her revolting daughter.