ОБРАЗНЫЕ СРЕДСТВА ВЫРАЖЕНИЯ АВТОРСКОГО ПРИСУТСТВИЯ В ДРЕВНЕРУССКОМ ТЕКСТЕ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ „СЛОВА О ЗАКОНЕ И БЛАГОДАТИ” МИТРОПОЛИТА ИЛАРИОНА, „СЛОВА НА АНТИПАСХУ” И „СЛОВА НА ПАСХУ” КИРИЛЛА ТУРОВСКОГО)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of traditional figurative symbols and ways of their creative rethinking in the works of Metropolitan Hilarion and Cyril of Turov. The study is of a comparative nature and is aimed at identifying the original and traditional in the works of these writers, as well as the way they transformed the literary canon. The author of the article proceeds from the fact that traditional images-symbols, by falling into the context of the original work as a special coordinate system with interaction and correlation of elements inherent in them, actualize in them additional values, necessary to the literator in order to solve his artistic problems. The works in question belong to the older period of Old East Slavic literature, they are written in the same genre, and created on the basis of a single opposition of the Old and New Testament. Both literators describe this opposition in the form of the images of biblical characters: the Hagar and Sarah from the Old Testament in the works of Metropol- itan Hilarion, and the Evangelical Peter and John in the works of Cyril of Turov. The focus of both literators is on the spiritual path of mankind, on the opposition of the man of the „old” („ветхааго”) and the man of the „new” („новааго”). The characteristics of representation of key images in these works are determined by creative precepts of literators: Metropolitan Hilarion strives towards division and analyticism, and Cyril of Turov strives towards interpre- tation and clarification of biblical symbols, towards the synthesis of „conceivable” and „tan- gible”. The figurative system of Metropolitan Hilarion is more canonical and traditional than that of Cyril of Turov. In the works of Hilarion the biblical symbolism is enriched through the construction of associative series, through the disclosure of semantic nuances of each word-image; on the other side, Cyril of Turov enriches the biblical symbolism by opposing different meanings of polysemantic words and creation of atypical phrases.