SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE LITERARY BACKGROUND OF FANTASTIC PROSE OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Cover Image

Z OBSERWACJI NAD TŁEM LITERACKIM PROZY FANTASTYCZNEJ ALEKSANDRA PUSZKINA
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE LITERARY BACKGROUND OF FANTASTIC PROSE OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Author(s): Justyna Karaś
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author discussed examples of the so called internal polemic in fantastic short stories by Pushkin The Coffin Maker and The Queen of Spades with the writer’s contemporary popular fantastic literature with mesmerism as a favourite idea of this literature, with the type of hero described as “sorcerer-magnetizer” with the Russian epigonuses of the horror stories.

  • Issue Year: 21/1991
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 75-87
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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