The figures of thanatos and eros in A. S. Pushkin’s Poetics

Marianna A. Dudareva; Svetlana M. Morozova; Svetlana V. Smirnova; Olga V. Avakova

Marianna A. Dudareva Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, Russia.
Svetlana M. Morozova Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, Russia
Svetlana V. Smirnova Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, Moscow, Russia
Olga V. Avakova Foreign Languages Department Moscow State University of Technology "STANKIN" (MSUT "STANKIN") Vadkovsky lane, 3A, Moscow, 127055, Russia

Keywords: Thanatos, philosophy, Eros, archetype, folklore, Pushkin.

Abstract

The article deals with ontological issues of creativity and mortal implied sense of Pushkin's fairy tale. The study object is the figures of Thanatos and Eros in ‘The Tale of the Golden Cockerel’ fairy tale. The images of King Dadon and the Queen of Shamakhan are revealed in symbiotic relationship with folklore aesthetics. Reference to folklore is caused not only by genre of the work but also by metaphysical nature of oral tradition since the Russian people have a special attitude to the theme of death. This is evidenced by the Russian fairy tale with search of “the other kingdom” in which a hero must suffer a temporary death in order to get a wonderful object, save a prophetic bride and obtain the sacred knowledge.

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Author Biographies

Marianna A. Dudareva, Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, Russia.

Candidate of Philology Senior lecturer Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, 10, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russia.

Svetlana M. Morozova, Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, Russia

Candidate of Philology Senior lecturer Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, 10, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russia

Svetlana V. Smirnova, Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, Moscow, Russia

Associate professor Russian Language Department No. 2, the Russian Language and General Education Faculty RUDN University Build.3, 10, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russia. Moscow, Russia

Olga V. Avakova, Foreign Languages Department Moscow State University of Technology "STANKIN" (MSUT "STANKIN") Vadkovsky lane, 3A, Moscow, 127055, Russia

Candidate of Philology Associate professor Foreign Languages Department Moscow State University of Technology "STANKIN" (MSUT "STANKIN") Vadkovsky lane, 3A, Moscow, 127055, Russia

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