Trofimova-Herman A. Dramas of F. Sologub: Stylization and Intertext

The object is a tragedy “Pobeda smerty” (Victory of Death) (1907), a tragedy “Dar mudrykh pchel” (The Gift of the Wise Bees) (1906), a drama “Vanka Klyuchnik and Pazh Jean” (Key-keeper Vanka and a Pageboy Jean) (1908) and a dramatic fairy tale “Nochnye plyaski” (Night Dancing) (1908) in the sequence chosen by F. Sologub during the compilation of his authorized “Collected Edition” (St. Petersburg, 1910); the aim is to understand the originality of F. Sologub's dramatic poetics in the aspect of stylization and intertext; methods – descriptive and analytical, historical and genetic, comparative and typological, biographical, mythopoetic, the method of intertextual analysis; novelty is due to its object and the chosen aspect of the analysis as well. In the research, the volume of F. Sologub's dramatic heritage related to stylization is outlined, and the place of these works in the writer's heritage is defined; the pretexts of F. Sologub's plays have been discovered, the choice, ways, purpose and types of stylization have been comprehended; the specifics and forms of intertext in the writer’s plays have been described; the features of interconnections between the plays and the author’s philosophical and creative concept have been established. F. Sologub's dramaturgy is put in the context of his heritage and the symbolist dramaturgy of the 1910s; results – the materials can be used during the study of the history of the Russian literature of the late XIXth - early XXth century in high school; while special courses and seminars devoted to the work of F. Sologub and the dramaturgy of the Russian symbolism, while working on master's thesis researches, during the further study of the writer’s artistic heritage; field – philology.