Intermediality as a principle of the two historical novels’ poetics (M. Turnier’s «The Erl King» and D. Littell’s «The Kindly Ones»)

Authors

  • Irina V. Danilenko Minsk State Linguistic University, 21 Zaсharava Street, Minsk 220034, Belarus

Keywords:

intermediality, music and literature, history, composition, novel

Abstract

Poetics of Intermediality is getting more and more popular in the works of French authors who are closer to the postmodernist type of artistic thinking. This article deals the interaction of music and literature at the compositional organization level of the novels about World War II. The goal set up is to explore the author’s strategies for harmonizing content and form, as well as the possibilities and limits of art in its dialogue with history (Nazism, genocide, the Holocaust). Comparative and hermeneutic research methods are used to reach the given goal. The comparative study of the precedent musical form and interpretative analysis of the novel’s text allows the comprehension of the essence of literary and musical synthesis carried out in each of the novels. As a result of our research performed, the principles of thematic structure in the novels «The Erl King» and «The Kindly Ones», the peculiarities of the ideological and emotional evaluation (pathos) of the historical events, as well as numerous parallels, analogies, similar motifs common to both arts contributing to understanding the tragedy of the XX century incomprehensible in terms of rationality were identified.

Author Biography

  • Irina V. Danilenko, Minsk State Linguistic University, 21 Zaсharava Street, Minsk 220034, Belarus

    senior lecturer at the department of French lexicology, faculty of Roman languages

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2019-02-28

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No. 1 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

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Danilenko, I.V. 2019. Intermediality as a principle of the two historical novels’ poetics (M. Turnier’s «The Erl King» and D. Littell’s «The Kindly Ones»). Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 1 (Feb. 2019), 53–64.