Abstract
The aim of the article is the investigation of inter textual relations in the process of genre transformation of the Christmas story into the Yule short story from Charles Dickens to Nikolay Leskov. For this purpose the typical elements of both genres are examined, the conclusion that the Christmas story by Ch. Dickens is a special intertexteme in the Yule short story by N. Leskov. Thorough the comparative analysis of three key ideological, meaningful, and poetic points and spheres (realization of concepts, categories of values and socio-cultural environment) has been made. The categories of values are depicted through the vertical relationship “a man—God”, as well as the opposition of humanity and self-absorption, moral and legal laws. Socio-cultural environment is considered as the image of household items of different classes (the merchants, the peasants, the nobles, the clergy, and the officials in the works by N. Leskov and the bourgeois and the workers in the works by Ch. Dickens) and socio-cultural symbols through the traditions of Christmas celebrating.
Highlights
The creative heritage of Nikolay Leskov is based on the writer’s unconditional contribution to the development of the majority of Russian realist literature genres of the second half of the XIX century, such as novel, story, chronicle, “prologue” legend, drama and publicism.The Yule short story occupies the particular place in the writer’s work among the variety of small epic forms
The aim of the article is the investigation of inter textual relations in the process of genre transformation of the Christmas story into the Yule short story from Charles Dickens to Nikolay Leskov
Socio-cultural environment is considered as the image of household items of different classes
Summary
The creative heritage of Nikolay Leskov is based on the writer’s unconditional contribution to the development of the majority of Russian realist literature genres of the second half of the XIX century, such as novel, story, chronicle, “prologue” legend, drama and publicism. The Yule short story occupies the particular place in the writer’s work among the variety of small epic forms. Leskov has already shown interest to the “Yule” theme since the beginning of the 1860s.The author systematically introduced episodes coincided with Christmas and Yule-tide in the early novels and stories, e.g. The first short story “The Sealed Angel”, subtitled “the Christmas Story”, was published in 1873, the last one—”Pustoplyasy”—was created two years before his death, in 1893. Leskov united twelve stories in a special Yule collection in 1886
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