| Title of the article: |
Female type of «temptress» and «spiteful wife» in Russian narrative of the late-sixteenth-century – early-eighteenth-century |
| Author(s): |
SULITSA E. I. |
| Section: |
Old Russian Heritage |
| Year: |
2014 |
| Issue: |
№ 4 (34) |
| Pages: |
168-177 |
| Index UDK: |
821.161.1.0 |
| Index BBK: |
83.3(2Рос=Рус)1 |
| Abstract: |
Study of a female theme is not new and relevant in Old Russian literature, but issues of female figure classification and typology are still unsettled. The main goal of this article is to describe Old Russian character type detailed in ranks of medieval female theme and defined as «woman-temptress», and reveal its role in plot-composition structure of text. Main traits of detailed type, its origins and traditions are defined by the method of female ideal and its antipode comparative analysis; we examine its evolution and transformation by the example of diversified characters in late-sixteenth-century – early-eighteenth-century narrative literature. In the process of comparison and analyses we use sixteenth-seventeenth century edifying works of literature: «Domostroy», «Father and son’s talk about women anger», «Daniil Zatochnik’s speech», «Ioann Zlatoust’s speech “About kind wives and spiteful wives”», «Parable about the old husband» and domestic tales («Story about Karl Sutulov», «Story about Savva Grudcin») and the histories of Tsar Peter’s times («History about Russian nobleman Alexander»). |
| Keywords: |
Old Russian literature, sixteenth-seventeenth century edifying works of literature, histories of Tsar Peter’s times, female theme, female figure, «Domostroy (rigidly patriarchal and stringently ruled family life)», «Story about Karl Sutulov», «Story about Savva Grudcin», «History about Russian nobleman Alexander» |
| Bibliography: |
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