Повествователен модус и литературен жанр в средновековните православни литератури: тезиси
Narrative Mode and Literary Kind in Medieval Orthodox Literatures: Theses

Summary/Abstract: Insufficient attention has been paid to the fundamental distinction between genre (literary kind, or work-type) and mode (manner of representation). Aristotle’s triad of narrative, dramatic, and mixed modes (the latter now generally replaced by lyric in theoretical schemes) is too often misunderstood to be a set of basic “genres”. Instead, mode is a separate, cross-genre factor and may be said to operate even in texts that cannot be identified with established genres. Narrative, in particular, is fundamentally a modal concept, and not generic. Since subject-matter and mode (together with style and function) are sufficient to shape a text, medieval Slavic narrative writings, and especially the more secular ones, often lack clear genre adherence. A further thesis worthy of future study is that there could exist relative modes, i.e., historically determined variants of modal usage that were not yet genres.

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