eprintid: 12885
rev_number: 27
eprint_status: archive
userid: 598
dir: disk0/00/01/28/85
datestamp: 2008-11-23 19:57:10
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status_changed: 2008-12-13 16:02:48
type: article
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creators_name: Aizlewood, R.
creators_id: RPAIZ50
title: Leskov's Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda: composition and symbolic framework
ispublished: pub
subjects: Y
divisions: D92
note: Published by Maney
abstract: This article examines the distinctive Leskovian composition of recurrent, linking and overlapping detail and motifs — and the density and open-ended character of the meanings they generate — in his classic story Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, 1865). The analysis begins by showing motif in a metapoetic function and then considers at length the three main overarching and archetypal motifs — water, life and death; the house and imprisonment; the garden and sensuality; it concludes by moving to a consideration of the architectonics of the text's composition, its key themes and symbolic framework. Study of this aspect of his poetics has a key role to play in Leskov studies; at the same time it contributes to the conceptualization of his characteristic heterogeneity and to an understanding of his overall worldview.
date: 2007-07-01
official_url: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/see/2007/00000085/00000003/art00001
vfaculties: VSSEES
rae2008: 51
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
lyricists_name: Aizlewood, R
lyricists_id: RPAIZ50
full_text_status: public
publication: Slavonic and East European Review
volume: 85
number: 3
pagerange: 401-440(40)
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1535-0940
citation:        Aizlewood, R.;      (2007)    Leskov's Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda: composition and symbolic framework.                   Slavonic and East European Review , 85  (3)   401-440(40).          Green open access   
 
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