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Проблемы поэтики раннего Чехова в соотношении с газетным дискурсом. Список как формат текста
The Problems of Chekhov’s Early Poetics in Correlation with Newspaper Discourse: The List as a Text Format

Author(s): Dominika Zoltán
Subject(s): Russian Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Chekhov’s early poetics; newspaper discourse; newspaper genres; interdiscursivity; universality; list; metonymy; Thoughts of Readers of Newspapers and Magazines; A Memo;

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines some features of Chekhov’s early poetics (1880–1885) in comparison with the newspaper as a discourse contemporary to his time. In the first half of the 1880s, the daily newspaper emerged as the dominant organ in the new system of the press. This was also the birth of mass communication in Russia, a necessary part of which was the emergence of “the small press”, i.e. the sphere of humorous journals, thin magazines, and daily newspapers in which Chekhov began to publish his works. The paper also summarizes the outcomes of the studies that reconstructed the cultural space of Russian newspapers and magazines of the period in question. The concept of “newspaper discourse” is introduced for the purposes of comparison and understood in the paper as a new and unified space that aims towards a universal modelling of the world through the production of texts. Newspaper discourse as a term is different from the concepts of “the small press” and “journalism”. At the end of the first part, the paper discusses the notions of discursive practice and interdiscursivity as one of the types of intertextuality defined by N. Fairclough.

  • Issue Year: 67/2022
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 225-234
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian
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