Ornamental Narration
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Wolf Schmid
About this book
Ornamental Narration is a narration in which thematic and formal equivalences dominate. Equivalence comprises two types of relations: similarity and opposition. They have in common that the elements linked by them are identical in at least one characteristic and non-identical in another characteristic. Equivalence produces, against the sequentiality of the story, a simultaneity of elements which are often distant from one another not only on the syntagmatic axis of the text, but also on the time axis of the story. Equivalence competes with temporal links such as sequentiality and causality. This untemporal relationship brings the temporal change and its logic to light.
The study examines works by Puškin, Rilke, Čexov, Beer-Hofmann, Belyj, Babel’, Vsevolod Ivanov, Nikitin, Pil’njak, Schnitzler, Zamjatin, Barskova.
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Wolf Schmid, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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1 Introduction: Ornamentality
1 - I Theory
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2 Thematic and Formal Equivalence
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3 Ornamentalism – Nineteen Theses
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4 Aleksandr Puškin’s “The Coffin-Maker”
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5 Nikolaj Gogol’s “The Overcoat”
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6 Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Lay of Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
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7 Anton Čexov’s Stories
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8 Richard Beer-Hofmann’s The Death of George
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9 Andrej Belyj
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10 Isaak Babel’
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11 Vsevolod Ivanov’s “The Child”
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12 Nikolaj Nikitin’s “The Dog”
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13 Boris Pil’njak
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14 Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Novella
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15 Evgenij Zamjatin’s “The Flood”
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16 Polina Barskova’s Living Pictures
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17 Summary and Conclusions
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18 Works Cited
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19 Index of Authors and Works
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