Original vs Borrowed: The Borrowing Mechanism in the Russian Seminary Poetry of the Second Half of the 18th Century (Based on the Materials from the Tver Theological Seminary) Cover Image

Свое и чужое: механизм заимствований в русской семинарской поэзии второй половины XVIII века (по материалам тверской духовной семинарии)
Original vs Borrowed: The Borrowing Mechanism in the Russian Seminary Poetry of the Second Half of the 18th Century (Based on the Materials from the Tver Theological Seminary)

Author(s): Alina Silina
Subject(s): Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Russian seminary poetry;occasional poetry;Tver Theological Seminary;borrowing methods;manuscripts

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses one of the peculiarities of the Russian seminary versifying – the practice of borrowing from other poems. Based on the materials of printed editions and manuscripts of the Tver Theological Seminary, the author of the article shows that in the second half of the 18th century, when composing occasional poetry, seminarians regularly turned to borrowing from earlier school essays and gives examples of various borrowing methods.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 25-35
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian
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