“At Plato’s Feast in Time of Plague”: on Interpretations of A.S. Pushkin’s “Little Tragedy”

The article attempts to place “A Feast in Time of Plague” by A.S. Pushkin, as well as the immediately preceding poem “Hero” (1830), in an eschatological perspective. The question of possible “pre-texts” of Pushkin's “Feast” is raised; considering the seemingly insignificant shifts of the Russia...

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Autor principal:	Andrei B. Shishkin
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN RU
Publicado:	Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2021
Materias:	a.s. pushkin vl. nabokov viach. ivanov m. tsvetaeva genre of symposium tragedy pandemic Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:04596c3bb87b40bd8312434ff2f799112021-11-24T15:30:38Z“At Plato’s Feast in Time of Plague”: on Interpretations of A.S. Pushkin’s “Little Tragedy”10.22455/2541-8297-2021-20-216-2372541-82972542-2421https://doaj.org/article/04596c3bb87b40bd8312434ff2f799112021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://litfact.ru/images/2021-20/10_Shiskin.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2541-8297https://doaj.org/toc/2542-2421The article attempts to place “A Feast in Time of Plague” by A.S. Pushkin, as well as the immediately preceding poem “Hero” (1830), in an eschatological perspective. The question of possible “pre-texts” of Pushkin's “Feast” is raised; considering the seemingly insignificant shifts of the Russian text relative to the English original, one can come to the conclusion that A.S. Pushkin, as if over the head of J. Wilson, consistently returns to the banquet ritual, reproducing the elements of archaic Dionysianism. The tragic “insoluble contradiction” of the finale of A.S. Pushkin's work is emphasized by the truncated concluding verse: the iambic tetrameter is cut off at the second foot; it is noteworthy that the metric scheme of the ending of the poem “Hero” is the same.Andrei B. ShishkinRussian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literaturearticlea.s. pushkinvl. nabokovviach. ivanovm. tsvetaevagenre of symposiumtragedypandemicLiterature (General)PN1-6790Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665ENRUЛитературный факт, Iss 2 (20), Pp 216-237 (2021)
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spellingShingle	a.s. pushkin vl. nabokov viach. ivanov m. tsvetaeva genre of symposium tragedy pandemic Literature (General) PN1-6790 Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages PG1-9665 Andrei B. Shishkin “At Plato’s Feast in Time of Plague”: on Interpretations of A.S. Pushkin’s “Little Tragedy”
description	The article attempts to place “A Feast in Time of Plague” by A.S. Pushkin, as well as the immediately preceding poem “Hero” (1830), in an eschatological perspective. The question of possible “pre-texts” of Pushkin's “Feast” is raised; considering the seemingly insignificant shifts of the Russian text relative to the English original, one can come to the conclusion that A.S. Pushkin, as if over the head of J. Wilson, consistently returns to the banquet ritual, reproducing the elements of archaic Dionysianism. The tragic “insoluble contradiction” of the finale of A.S. Pushkin's work is emphasized by the truncated concluding verse: the iambic tetrameter is cut off at the second foot; it is noteworthy that the metric scheme of the ending of the poem “Hero” is the same.
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“At Plato’s Feast in Time of Plague”: on Interpretations of A.S. Pushkin’s “Little Tragedy”

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