ПУШКИН И БАЛЫ: ЗВУК И ТЕМА В РОМАНЕ «ЕВГЕНИЙ ОНЕГИН»

Abstract

Object of the essay: the author's digression about balls (dance events) in the first chapter of the novel in verse by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" (EO, 1, XXIX-XXX). Subject of the essay: sound patterning (phonetic shift, alliteration and anagrams). Purpose of research: to uncover the semantic connection between the theme and sound patterning. Results: The essay demonstrates that the love-erotic theme is the leitmotif in the author's digression about balls and is realized primarily at the lexical level. The sound patterning techniques (shift, alliteration, anagram) used in the digression are analyzed. A sound shift is revealed in the text, which occurs when individual lines are perceived by ear. This shift (fusion of sounds) creates a phonetic imitation of an obscene verb, which enhances and underscores the love-erotic theme of the digression at a profane, carnivalesque level. Sound shift is an acoustic-phonetic phenomenon when the ending of one word and the beginning of the next or two words standing next to each other form a new word that changes the meaning of the phrase. The same obscene verb is camouflaged in the anagrammatic construction of some lines. The clustering and repetition of the sounds б-л (b-l) in adjacent words creates a phonetic field in which a semantic meaning, associated with the leitmotif theme, emerges. Application: literary criticism, Pushkin studies, teaching Russian literature of the 19th century. Conclusions: Alliteration on б-л (b-l) highlights the phonetics of the leitmotif word "бал" (ball). Sound shifts and anagrams in the author's digression about balls serve as a phonetic accompaniment to the leitmotif love-erotic theme.