“SECULAR BOWL” BY M. PRISHVIN: THE PRAYER FOR LIGHT

Abstract

The article examines historical realia of the Russian provincial life of the lean 19 ^th year of the XX century. Prishvin applies to a myth formula to create a comprehensive and ambivalent description of a metaphysical battle of a “Christ-like potential of a human being and satanic darkness”. The system of binary oppositions, in particular, opposition light/darkness becomes the most adequate means to implement the national phenomenon in Prishvin’s discourse.

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• Published: June 20, 2015.

Keywords

• Россия
• тьма
• свет
• миф
• бинарные оппозиции
• Russia
• darkness
• light
• myth
• binary oppositions

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