ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Literary studies |
Chernyak M. A. | Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia |
Tsvetkova E. G. | Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia |
Keywords: modern literature children’s literature graphic novel Eugene Onegin literary commentary visual narrative playing with classical text |
Summary: The paper addresses the phenomena of modern literature’s referral to classical fi ction texts and adaptations
of classical literature. Assigning a new place to classical literature in the modern cultural and historical consciousness
is directly related to the socio-cultural parameters of the epoch. Modern literature often refers to the image of Alexander
Pushkin and his works. Furthermore, the presence of Pushkin’s verses and the image of the poet himself in “other
author’s texts” is an important feature of the modern literary process. The article presents the examples of various sequels
and adaptations of Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin. A graphic guide with a commentary to Eugene Onegin created by
a writer and school teacher Alexey Oleynikov and illustrated by Natalia Yaskina is a new form of comprehending the
classical novel, which is a combination of a graphic novel and a real historical and literary commentary that covers
various aspects including those of Pushkin’s epoch. The book is an alternation between the original Pushkin’s text and the commentary with some historical and cultural references and infographics. Such interpretation of a classical book is an illustrative example of creating new types of texts amid the crisis of literature-centrism. |
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