Transformation of 'internal reviews' genre in the provincial text of 19th century Russian literature

The article is devoted to the study of internal reviews deformation in provincial text. In the beginning of the article we make an attempt to describe some characteristics of internal review. So, internal reviews were a ''description of reality'', on the one hand, and ''description of art discourse'', on the other. To our mind, we can compare internal reviews with ''boundary layer'' of Russian fiction of the 19th century. "Internal reviews'' as a genre are determined by the provincial text of Russian literature. Many motifs, plots and "stories" connected with province theme, constructed this thematic field. It is due to such precedent texts as Gogol's ''Dead souls'', Herzen's ''Who is to blame?', and Sologub's ''Carriage''. These masterpieces formed the main features of Russian hypertext and determined its semantic limit and range. So, the same representation of province towns in literature after ''Dead souls'' is closely connected with Gogol's myth, images and style. A town without a name and properties (city without history and face), N., Malinov and Kalinov became the main scene of artistic and inartistic texts. As E. Ertner stated, ''Province image is not a creative essence. This essence has a semiotic symbolic structure and operates like an indicator of a conditional province. This symbol of ''dead soul'' is not connected with reality perception, but with a literature model''. Inartistic texts are transformed and modified in provincial text like part of the global art discourse. In the article we research some plots and peculiarities of narration in internal reviews. The principal part of the article is connected with the research of internal reviews taken from the Russian magazines ''Patriotic Notes'' (''Otechestvennye Zapiski'') and ''Ears of corn'' (''Kolosya'').There are fictional stories, literature characters, motifs and reminiscences in the articles of magazines. Big part of ''internal reviews'' presented a normal everyday-life of N. For example, we research Sleptsov's and Melnikov's articles and novels: some peculiarities of this genre are presented in their narration. Ryazanov's statements and Krasilnikov's phrases allow to detect these peculiarities. In both cases we see replacement of factual information by a set of stable senses (with determined denotation), which is creation of a meta-language. We can say that internal reviews had some transformation in provincial context. Firstly, it is closely connected with the influence of Russian fiction and native narrative tradition. Secondly, ''reviews'' of provincial press were a productive material for satirical and ironic narration. Thirdly, internal reviews were written for the educated metropolitan reader. Finally, these peculiarities are due to phenomenological features of the province in the Russian culture. In conclusion, we can say that plots of internal reviews could be perceived and used by the authors of ''provincial stories''.

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