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Abstract

The paper entitled “The poetic development of the motifs word and deed in Turgenev's novel, Rudin” examines the structure and the semantic evolution of the motifs under scrutiny. It throws light upon the different semantic configurations the variants of word and deed systematically form in different layers of the text-on the plot-level where they reveal themselves focussing around the main hero of the novel (see the protagonist's debate with Pigasov or his complaint about his fate); in their linguistic representations including their lexical and phonic manifestations (cf. e.g. the expression ???????? ??????); in the consequently constructed motif clusters, which reveal significant semantic parallelisms (cf. the semantic sequence of variants: fire-love-wandering-speaking), and in the intertextual practice of the novel. The interpretation formulates the idea of the isomorphic structural and semantic composition of the motifs word and deed, relating their poetic meaning to the problem of semantic motivation. This latter one “overwrites” the evaluation of Rudin's figure offered in the framework of his unrealized love story with Natalya or given by the characters or the narrator. The paper aims at elucidating the true semantic character of the literary figure, deeply embedded in his intertextual role incarnations, out of which the Rudin-Onegin parallelism is paid special attention.