ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Literary studies |
Sharypina T. A. | Lobachevsky State University |
Keywords: modality subjective modality fi ction modality fairy tale myth genre existential situation intermediality |
Summary: The paper for the fi rst time analyzes the poetological functions of authorial modality through the example
of the works of Franz Fühmann and Bernhard Schlink in a comparative aspect. The relevance of the paper is confi rmed
by its multidisciplinary focus and the problem of the communicative space of a literary text. The aim of the study is to
discover the main tendencies of authorial modality and its functioning in style formation based on a comparative analysis
of the works of Fühmann and Schlink. The comparative and typological perspective proves that the originali ty of authorial
modality expression and its evolution in the creative practice of writers is determined by the strongly pronounced
personal background and individual experience of authors. Specifi cally, the withdrawal from the biased binarity of a fairy
tale in favour of the myth’s polysemy and the diff usion of canonical genres in Fühmann’s works opened new stylistic
possibilities for the ways of expressing authorial modality, while the choice of artistic devices, as well as the autho rial
modality of Schlink’s works were predefi ned by the axiological principles and priorities of Pro testantism which had
formed Schlink’s personality in his childhood and then found a certain legal basis in his mentality as a lawyer. It explains
the diff erence in the attitude to the phenomenon of the Word between Fühmann who doubted its eff ectiveness and appealed
to the emotional universality of dance at the end of his career and Schlink whose novels are marked by the use of
artistic and photographic ekphrasis, which is widening his narrative technics. Despite all the diff eren ces in the origins of spiritual experience and life peripeteia, the intermedial discourse which fi nds its expression in the mature creative practice of Fühmann and Schlink becomes a way of comprehending “eternal” questions of existence. |
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