From Adultery Short Story to Adultery Novel: "Transparent Consciousness" in Russian Prose of 1840-1850s

Student: Plashinova Anastasia

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2018

The plot of adultery was extensively popular in Russian and European literature during the whole 19th century. The type of the plot and the characters remained quite stable, but there were a considerable number of experiments in the field of ideology and form. This study attempts to describe the evolution of narration in the Russian adultery fiction, considering the type of narration as one of the main distinctions between a short story and a novel. The analysis of the corpus of the Russian short stories of 1825-1850 and the novels by Alexander Herzen, Aleksey Pisemsky and Ivan Turgenev enables to reveal the arise and a development of the techniques of “transparent consciousness” (fully reliable narrative form) in the Russian adultery prose.

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