Karolina Pavlova's essay ''A Double Life'' as a prosimetrical text

Pavlova's essay ''A Double Life'' is considered as a type of the prosimetrical text in the article. Features of its esthetic nature on the synchronous level are conceptualized on the basis of the reception of the work in the Russian periodicals of 1848. The authors of the reviews in magazines "Sovremennik" (The Contemporary), ''Biblioteka dlya chteniya" (Collection for Reading), ''Otechestvennyye zapiski'' (Notes of the Fatherland), and "Moskvityanin" (The Muscovite) emphasised the relationship of poetry and prose in the works of Pavlova, the relationship of form and content of the essay ''A Double Life'' for the unique nature of its genre. Following the commentators such prosaic and poetic works as a book of the German thinker and writer-romanticist G.G. Schubert ''Die Symbolik des Traumes'', a novel by Novalis ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'', Byron's poem ''The Dream'' are indicated as the possible pretext of this essay. The essay by K. Pavlova as a prosimetrical text is analysed in the unity of its polyphonic content presented through the diverse genre speech styles: domestic fiction, dreams and prophecies represented by verses, intermediate realm between reality and dream expressed by rhythmical prose. Dialogue as a world-modelling, symbolic and genre-speech category is perceived as a structural element of the work of K. Pavlova. The dialogue of poetry and prose as an esthetic basis of prosimetry permeates here not only the home and the dream aspects of life, but also many content and structural elements of the essay: ''day'' and ''night'' chronotope, dreams of the character, plot, metasubject, composition, genre features. The question of philosophy of creativity is conceptualised in the article as a change in the mind of the heroine from the reality to the artistic image, which is defined as a picture of reality, idealised but not fully realised. From the point of view of the author, ''the formula of creativity'' includes poetic dreams, long reflection (''a cherished thought''), the acquisition of ''word'' and further life of the text independent of its creator. The creator has a secondary sensation of the work and the esthetic feeling. The article summarizes the poetics of K. Pavlova's essay ''A Double Life'' as a prosimetrical text. The most important feature of this type is seen in the original text mobility, variability of the author's attitude to the character, use of different points of view, esthetic play with them, dual imagery, in the productive synthesis of different speech genres and forms. ''A Double Life'' as a prosimetrical text is created on the basis of external, cumulative principle and, simultaneously, on the internal principle of structural and semantic switching, which makes the poetic and prosaic pictures of the world in the work are dynamic and transform into each other.

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