On Some Problems of the Modi and Narrative Modality of the Provincial plots of the Russian Literature

The paper investigates the process of creating narrative modi of provincial plots. These plots were connected with mass-literature, so they were based on definite narrative patterns, common places and stamps and represented a peculiar «reduction prism», where different narrative modi - satirical, adventure-picaresque, sentimental - come together, are deformed and lose their initial meanings. Contaminating and correcting one another in this contamination, by the 1830s these three modi form the narrative structure of a provincial plot. One can describe their interaction via the linguistic analogy as the relation «denotation - connotations» The semantic specificity of the provincial plot also determines the narrative modality. So, this problem has both a historico-literary and a theoretico-literary sense. The research on the considered stories of the journal «Contemporary» («Sovremennik») makes it possible to illustrate this thesis and to show a certain correlation between the eventfulness and the specific modality of the plot.

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