К стилистическому анализу торжественной прозы св. Климента Охридского
Towards a Stylistic Analysis of St. Clement of Ohrid’s Homilies

Author(s): Cristiano Diddi
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: In the last decades the homiletics of St. Clement of Ohrid and his ‘literary school’ has been subject to linguistic and literary analysis. The researcher’s attention was drawn above all by lexis and syntax, composition and single rhetorical devices in separate homilies. Meanwhile, some aspects of stylistics and of the ‘author’s style’ in the light of the conventional requirements of the ‘literary etiquette’ have still not been analyzed thoroughly. The article pays special attention to the specific function of some keywords in the texts, as well as to the origin of some phraseological constructions, appearing in more than one homily, typical of the genre of hymnography. The analysis is carried out on the basis of the full homiletic corpus of Clement of Ohrid, compared to the hymnographic works of Clement on the one hand, and on the other – to the Byzantine tradition. The aim of the analysis is to make an attempt at revealing some specific features of the author’s phraseology in the common layer of the borrowed Byzantine and Old Slavonic literary tradition.

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