Soboleva N. V. Intellectual and Historical Novel “Memoirs of Hadrian” by M. Yourcenar: Patterning of Genre and Thematic Complex

(Moscow Pedagogical State University)

Abstract ◊ The article covers the problem of genre peculiarity of intellectual and historical novel in the 20^th century by the example of M. Yourcenar’s novel “Memoirs of Hadrian”. The author analyzes the mechanism of modeling of historical reality in a literary work about the past and singles out typologically significant components of novelistic thought. The genre dominants of this novel modification are specified.

Keywords: novel, intellectual genre, history, reminiscence, imaginative character, cultural dominant, category of time, reader’s expectation.

Soboleva Nadezhda Vladimirovna — an assistant, postgraduate student of the World Literature Department at Moscow Pedagogical State University, member of the International Center for the Research on M. Yourcenar’s Works (CIDMY, Brussels). Tel.: +7 (499) 132-46-47. E-mail: saybl@list.ru

Citation: Soboleva N. V. Intellektual'no-istoricheskii roman M. Iursenar «Memuary Adriana»: modelirovanie zhanrovo-tematicheskogo kompleksa // Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie. 2011. № 1. S. 168–172.

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