A LETTER-INVECTIVE AS A GENRE VARIETY OF “A LETTER TO THE TSAR”

Abstract

By the material of the Russian literature of the XIX-XX centuries the article suggests emphasizing a special epistolary genre - the genre of “a letter to a ruler”, represented by two invariants - “a letter to a tsar” and “a letter to a leader”, the definition of such subvariety of a genre as a letter-invective is given. Then the analysis of a concrete material - letters-invectives to the tsar by M. Tsebrikova and V. Korolenko, is conducted. As a result preliminary conclusions concerning the functioning of this genre subvariety in the history of the Russian literature are made.

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• Published: November 30, 2015.

Keywords

• эпистолярная литература
• «письмо властителю»
• «письмо царю»
• «письмо вождю»
• письмо-инвектива
• русская литература
• цензура
• литература и власть
• epistolary literature
• “a letter to a ruler”
• “a letter to a tsar”
• “a letter to a leader”
• a letter-invective
• Russian literature
• censorship
• literature and power

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