"The Gray House" by Mariam Petrosyan: on the Structure and Poetics of the Text

Student: Schegolkova Elizaveta

Supervisor: Elena Zemskova

Educational Programme: Comparative Studies: Russian Literature in Cross-cultural Perspective (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The thesis analyzes the text of M. Petrosyan's novel "The Gray House" (2009, 2017). The goal is to give a description of the source, to analyze its structure and composition, to consider the system of characters and to identify the genre affiliation of the novel. In addition, we consider the experience of reception of the novel by critics. To justify the idea that "The Gray house" is a fantastic novel, we need to consider the question of what is fantastic and to give it definition. The paper shows the network of characters, created using resources https://ezlinavis.dracor.org and the "Gephi".

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