Title of the article:

NON-STYLISTIC IMITATIONS AS AN EVENT IN WORLD LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Author(s):

Alexander B. Kudelin

Information about the author/authors

Alexander B. Kudelin — DSc in Philology, Full Professor, Academician of the RAS, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya Str., 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: abkudelin@rambler.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2018

Volume

Vol. 48

Pages

Pp. 101–112.

Received

February 12, 2018

Date of publication

June 15, 2018

Index UDK

80

Index BBK

83.3(0)4

Abstract

The present article, widely drawing on the works of the world literature, pays particular attention to the so-called non-stylistic imitations, which were closely analyzed by D. S. Likhachev in his study A Poetics of the Old Russian Literature. Our probing into the principles of medieval literature of the Near and Far East allows for deepening our knowledge of this particular technique informing the Medieval texts. New insights into historical and theoretical aspects of literary studies have spurred reconsideration of literary phenomena on certain regional and inter-regional levels up to overall reassessment of medieval literary development at large. Considering the Medieval period as unique in World studies, as emanating a very particular type of artistic consciousness, this article offers a new take on ‘non-stylistic imitations’ as an effective technique integral to Medieval literature. 

Keywords

Non-stylistic imitations, stylization, Dmitry S. Likhachev, world literature of the Middle ages, artistic means employed by the old Russian Literature, the Medieval literature of the Near and Far East, naȥira, poetic competition.

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