Ancient Ekphrasis Serving the Ideas of Modernism: The Magic of Experience and the Mystery of Transformation of a Hero in the Story Little Angel by Leonid Andreyev

Authors

  • Юлия Коварская [Yulia Kovarskaya]

Keywords:

ruska književnost, kratka proza, božična zgodba, harmonija, umetnost, lepota, modernizem, Russian literature, short story, Christmas story, harmony, art, beauty, Modernism, Silver Age

Abstract

According to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the eternal harmony embodied in literature and art can act on the soul with such a force that it makes our spirit more sensitive to the effect of beauty, which in a particular moment can have a beneficial effect on our emotional state and play a redemptive role in our destiny. The Russian modernist writer, Leonid Andreyev, develops this idea in his Christmas story "The little angel", which is focused on a description of an object of decorative art-a waxen angel. The visual animation of the image of an angel and the supernatural, mysterious, and transforming power hidden in the image is created in the text using an ancient literary device-ekphrastic.

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Published

2016-04-15

How to Cite

Коварская [Yulia Kovarskaya] Ю. (2016) “Ancient Ekphrasis Serving the Ideas of Modernism: The Magic of Experience and the Mystery of Transformation of a Hero in the Story Little Angel by Leonid Andreyev ”, Slavistična revija, 64(4), pp. 503–512. Available at: https://srl.si/ojs/srl/article/view/COBISS_ID-63356258 (Accessed: 12 December 2024).

Issue

Vol. 64 No. 4 (2016)

Section

ARTICLES

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