THE IMAGE OF HUNTING IN MIKHAIL PRISHVIN’S WORKS IN THE LIGHT OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION
- Authors: Dekhtyarenok A.V.1
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- Issue: Vol 46, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 59-65
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-1077/article/view/293256
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/uchz.art.2024.992
- ID: 293256
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The article examines the image of hunting in Mikhail Prishvin’s works and its interconnection with thefundamental ideas of Plato’s aesthetics. The relevance of the stated topic is determined by the search for new approachesto the study of the writer’s works and the need for a comprehensive study of the influence of the ancient tradition onPrishvin’s writing. The objective of the study was to investigate the reflection of images, ideas, and symbols of Platonismin Prishvin’s “hunting texts” in order to to establish the motives of his referral to Platonic aesthetics and to identify thespecifics of the representation of this ancient philosopher’s ideas in the semantic paradigm of the image of hunting. Themain research methods were the intertextual, comparative, and motive-figurative analysis. The study revealed the imageof hunting in different contexts and at the different levels of artistic representation – as a space of the soul and ametaphor for knowledge, creativity, love, and life itself. The article focuses on the polyphonism of Prishvin’s discourse,which combined different approaches to understanding the phenomenon of hunting – the traditional Russian huntingnarrative, the refined aestheticism of the turn of the century, and the sustainable reception of Platonic thought, whichhad a vivid continuation in the literature of modernism. It was concluded that in Prishvin’s literary world picture theunderstanding of the hunting phenomenon as a specific lyrical space for the author’s reflection and a metaphor for creativity and the quest for eternal truths was the development of the Platonic tradition.
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A. V. Dekhtyarenok
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Email: geba13@mail.ru
Cand. Sc. (Philology)
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