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Name: A. Vampilov’s «reflexed worlds» in «The Duck Hunting»: the anamorphosis of faces, subjects, time

Authors: Ivanovа Valentinа Yakovlevna, Smirnov Sergey Rostislavovich

Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The unreal world of «The Duck Hunting», a play by Alexander Vampilov, is reviewed through the prism of the baroque aesthetics and one of its main metaphors, «mirror» and «mirrors». A mirror, as a semiotic window, opens the unique poetical guideline of the play. It is doubling, tripling, multiplying the dramaturgic entire’s elements in their combinations, transformations, overlapping, circumrotation. The clue to finding anamorphism is immediately given by the original text.

Keywords: alexander vampilov, anamorphism, baroque aesthetics, mirror, semantic metamorphosis, double theater code

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