2014 # 6 (8)
Pautkin A.A.
Ancient Russian bookishness: historical-literary alternatives
Abstract
The author analyzes the monuments of ancient Russian bookishness that do not meet the general trends in the development of narrative forms of that epoch and treats them as illustrations of unrealized potential – manifestations of the literary trends that were not implemented due to a number of objective and subjective reasons.
Key words
Ancient Russian bookishness, «Pouchenie» Vladimira Monomakha, «Slovo o polku Igoreve», «Molenie Daniila Zatochnika», «Slovo o pogibeli Russkoj zemli», «Povestʼ o Petre i Fevronii», narrative, historical, hagiographic literature, secular biography, author and text, elements of autobiography