On Headings of Paroemias:  or Who is the Principal in Khvostov’s Poetical World

The article continues the series of author’s publications on Count D.I. Khvostov’s poetics and deals with the headings of the most famous Khvostov’s book (“Paroemi” of 1802). The titles are considered as an important element of the paratext, as a coherent system, organically connected with the other levels of the poetic world of the book. The table of contents is interpreted as a key that the author offers to the reader in order to give a general idea of the poetical world of the book and to divide the readers into “his own” (“congenial”) and “not his own” (“the other”). The article consists of two parts. In the first one, the titles, constructed according to the nominative principle, are comprehended as macrocosm and microcosm, in their mutual reflections. The experience of microphilological classification of headings is presented, the main semantic groups (people, animals, plants, natural phenomena, geographical objects, mythology) and subgroups within each section (for example, for people – profession, age, kinship, physical condition, etc.), key oppositions are pointed out; the use of “favorite&8j1; techniques (four combinatorial operations, grammar games, etc.) in the titles is investigated. The second part of the article presents a grammatical agent, which actively intervenes in the coherent system of classification of titles and sets its own laws for connecting the elements of this system, – the conjunction “and”. Continuous combinatorial play, polyperspectivism makes Khvostov’s poetical world related to the world of emblematics and makes Count Khvostov one of the most emblematic authors.

Keywords

D. Khvostov, paroemias, headings, conjunction “and”, emblematics

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19.12.2022

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19.12.2022

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GOST	Dovgy O. On Headings of Paroemias: or Who is the Principal in Khvostov’s Poetical World // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2022. – V. 81. – Issue 6 C. 53-60 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S160578800023669-1-1 (circulation date: 05.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S160578800023669-1
MLA	Dovgy, Ol’ga L "On Headings of Paroemias: or Who is the Principal in Khvostov’s Poetical World." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 81.6 (2022):53-60. DOI: 10.31857/S160578800023669-1
APA	Dovgy O. (2022). On Headings of Paroemias: or Who is the Principal in Khvostov’s Poetical World. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 81(6), pp.53-60 DOI: 10.31857/S160578800023669-1

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