HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

Postmodern autobiography experience: dmitry prigov's "beast beyond jurisdiction"

2018. №4, pp. 78-85

Romanovskaya O.E. - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Astrakhan State University, Russia, 414056, Astrakhan, 20Р° Tatishchev st

The article aims to study narration peculiarities of Dmitry Prigov’s autobiographic essay “Tvar nepodsudnaya” (“Beast beyond jurisdiction”). The narrative layer of text exemplifies contradictions between postmodern intentions and autobiography’s traditional structure; highlights and describes manifestation forms of this contradiction: irony and self-irony, parody, imitation of lyricism and sentimentality as a "foreign word", elements of "unrepentant confession" by means of narratology research method along with the prosaic word typology by M. M. Bakhtin. The article concludes that postmodern aesthetics transforms the autobiography genre.

Key words: Пригов, постмодернизм, повествование, автобиография, ирония, Prigov, postmodernism, narration, autobiography, irony

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