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“The Great Frost” and the Russian Plot Line in V. Woolf’s Novel Orlando: Studying the Literary Parallel

Literary Science , UDC: 821.111.0 + 82.091 DOI: 10.25688/2076-913X.2021.43.3.01

Authors

  • Chesnokova Tatiana Grigoryevna docent, PhD (Philology)

Annotation

It is the Russian plot line in the first chapter of V. Woolf’s novel Orlando: a biography that attracted the attention of literary scholars more than once. The same concerns Shakespearean motifs in the poetics of the book. Yet the parallels between the above mentioned “Russian episode” and Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost have not been thoroughly studied, while they appear a notable example of the modernist writer's two interests intersecting: that for the “Russian point of view” and that for the Bard’s plays. Beside the plot parallels between the two works, the article focuses on the archetypal motif of the debate between Winter and Spring / Summer reflected in them, which becomes the metaphoric clue to the characters and situations.
Tags:
W. Shakespeare; Love’s Labour’s Lost; V. Woolf; Orlando; comparative analysis; the dispute of Winter and Spring.

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Chesnokova, T. G. (2021). “The Great Frost” and the Russian Plot Line in V. Woolf’s Novel Orlando: Studying the Literary Parallel Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2021, №3 (43), 8-20. https://doi.org/10.25688/2076-913X.2021.43.3.01
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