Forms of Expression of the Author’s Consciousness in Contemporary Russian Drama Cover Image

Формы выражения авторского сознания в новейшей русской драме
Forms of Expression of the Author’s Consciousness in Contemporary Russian Drama

Author(s): Olga Zhurcheva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: problem of the author; conflict; character; genre; ‘new drama’

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of authorial intention in contemporary Russian drama. Firstly, major theoretical approaches to the ‘problem of the author’ in drama are identi ed. It is then demonstrated how cultural paradigms change in an artistic consciousness and how, as a con- sequence, the most important structural components of drama – con ict, character, genre – become discredited and deconstructed. There follows an overview of speci c examples of such transforma- tions of these generic features of drama. It is argued in the paper that such transformations result from the activation of the author’s consciousness and are a manifestation of the author’s intentions regarding the modern picture of the world.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 277-285
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian