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Name: Frost, Death and «The Enchanted Dream» (Connotative capacity of the key episode of N. A. Nekrasov’s poem «Frost the Red Nose»)

Authors: Romashchenko Svetlana Anatolyevna, Zhilichev Pavel Yevgenyevich

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: This paper analyses the receptive and semiotic aspects of N. A. Nekrasov’s poem «Frost the Red Nose» as, including both the interpretation of the key episode (the appearing of Frost) and the description of its structural and semantic connections with the variational final episode. Based on the principle of isomorphism of a part and the whole, both fragments are regarded as interpretants which ambiguate the interpretation of «the pictures from peasants’ life». The poetic capacity of intertextual and mythopoethical connotations, spreading over the entire text of the poem, as well as the relatedness between Daria and the personified creator (contemplating and narrating) make the reader feel as if he was a coparticiupant of the act of writing in the process of «slowed down» reading. To sum it up, the episode of Frost’s appearance not only broadens the assosiations within the semantic field of «winter and death», but also externalizes the natural selfreferential actualisation of Nekrasov’s work.

Keywords: n. nekrasov, receptive mindset, «winter» connotations, models of interpretation, reader’s concretization, poetics of the final

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