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Баллады Адама Мицкевича в художественной интерпретации Александра Пушкина
Ballads by Adam Mickiewicz in Alexander Pushkin’s artistic interpretation

Author(s): Valentina Macapura
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: a ballad; an original; translation; artistic interpretation; artistic structure;

Summary/Abstract: The main target of research in this article is the ballads by Mickiewicz Czaty (The watch),Trzech Budrysów (The three brothers Budrys) in comparison with the ballads by Pushkin Воевода(The waywode) and Будрыс и его сыновья (Budrys and his sons). In particular, there have beencompared the artistic specific features of the mentioned works, the role of opposition, the role ofethnic flavour in their structure, language features, peculiarities of rhythm system and stanzaicprosody, functions of aposiopesis, rhetorical questions and exclamations and etc.When finding out the common and the different between the ballads by Mickiewicz andPushkin, the author of the article points up the difference between the original and the translation.The type of these differences testifies, that the ballads The waywode and Budrys and his sonsmediate between the translation and the original creative work and can be considered an independentinterpretation of the ballads by Mickiewicz. It becomes apparent especially well in the text ofPushkin’s ballad The waywode.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: XIX
  • Page Range: 99-110
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian