Parable and anecdote as genre components in Aleksey Khomyakov’s letters

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Absract: The article considers the generic structure of A.S. Khomyakov's letters. It comes to light that the theorist of a Slavophile movement opposes friendly confessional correspondence, popular in Russia in the first third of the 19th century, to sermon in a letter form. In his letters, Khomyakov prefers genres targeting public audience (e.g. journal articles, reviews, auto-commentaries, exegetical studies, etc.) to intimate ones; among his preferences are parables, an integral part of any sermon or homily. Khomyakov refers his readers to evangelical parables, thereby making his instructive (uchitelny) word gain in authority; he also speaks in various parables, often using their abridged versions, highlighting their proverbial and aphoristic maxims. In his epistles, not a less important role there plays another, an antinomic to a parable genre of an anecdote, samples of which also appear in complete or condensed forms (punch lines). Anecdotes and jokes seem to weaken the authority of the uchitelny word; however, it gains in effectiveness, since the addressee finds himself free to discourse with the sender of the letter as with an equal.
Keywords: A.S. Khomyakov, letter, genre, sermon, parable, anecdote, proverbial and aphoristic maxim, sharpness
Category: Vol 78, NO 4 (2019)
DOI: 10.31857/S241377150006112-6
Pages: 48-55
Author: Marina Kuzmina
Information about the author: Affiliation: St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies And Design Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

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