Browsing by Author "Keba, O. V."

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MYTHOPOETICS AND PRAGMATICS OF THE SOVIET ANECDOTE
(2019) Ilinska, N. I.; Bokshan, H. I.; Keba, O. V.; Kuznetsov, I. V.
The article focuses on the mythopoetics and pragmatics of the Soviet anecdote as a speech genre as well as a genre of urban folklore, its definition, genre modus and sociocultural specificity. A case study of “the folklore of intelligentsia” (Yu. Boriev) has been conducted. Much attention is given to the typological convergence of the phenomena of a myth and an anecdote. In the article the myth and the anecdote are revealed as a repository of historical and cultural memory, a product of mass consciousness, which is manifested in the anonymity, myth-creative potential, compensatory function. The hero of the anecdote is the ambivalent figure of the trickster, which goes back to the traditional myth. The emphasis is drawn to the metatextuality inherent in “the folklore of intelligentsia”. The Soviet anecdote poetics performs pragmatic function of the ideological mythdeconstruction.
STRATEGIES OF MYTH-MAKING IN THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF THE NOVEL “THE WANDERING JEW” BY S. HEYM
(2019) Ilinska, N. I.; Bokshan, H. I.; Keba, O. V.; Pomohaibo, J. O.
The article deals with the strategies of myth-making in the historical and philosophical discourse of the novel “The Wandering Jew” by S. Heym. The concepts of “myth-making strategies”, “discourse”, and “multi-genre nature” are being clarified. Genre modifications of the historical novel by S. Heym through its comparison with the genre invariant of the traditional historical novel have been revealed. The author’s transformations of the principle of historicism, “Gothic anthropologism”, the myth-making strategies in the interpretation of history have been ascertained. The historical images of Martin Luther and Paul von Eitzen, the postmodern poetics of their artistic realization have been characterized. It is proved that the main myth-making strategy is the demythologization of history as a discourse of power. The features of the genre structure of S. Heym’s novel “The Wandering Jew” as a postmodern historical novel have been described.
“THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO AHASUERUS”: APOCRYPHAL DISCOURSE OF THE NOVEL “THE WANDERING JEW” BY S. HEYM
(2019) Ilinska, N. I.; Bokshan, H. I.; Holyk, S. V.; Keba, O. V.
The article deals with the theoretical aspect of the concept of “apocryphal novel”, its difference from other literary transformations of Old Testament and canonical subjects and images. The specificity of the apocryphal discourse, its plot and meaning-forming functions in S. Heym’s novel “The Wandering Jew” are revealed. It is indicated that its components are a modification of the legendary image of Ahasuerus, an apocryphal evangelist in the text of the novel, and a semantically related narrative of the earthly ministry and the sin offering of Jesus. The principles of apocryphization and transcoding of the canonical gospels, as well as other religious and paralegal sources, are analyzed. The conclusions about the anti-dogmatic intentions of the author of the apocryphal novel “The Wandering Jew” are made, which aim at any manifestations of monopoly on truth and utopianism.