Ivan Turgenev’s tale “Torrents of Spring” as a prose tragedy: Inner compulsion for mimetic competition as Sanin’s hamartia

We study Ivan Turgenev’s tale “Torrents of Spring” as a prose tragedy. In the inner story, the unity of place, time, and action, so crucial to Aristotle’s concept of the tragedy, is observed. The analysis of the pieces of art mentioned in the story (Danneker’s “Ariadne”, Allori’s “Judith”) shows tha...

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Main Author: Stephan Lipke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2024-12-01
Series:RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
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Online Access:https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/viewFile/41905/24142
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