Information about the author:
Yuliya Yu. Anokhina
Yuliya Yu. Anokhina, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8917-5445
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Acknowledgements:
The research has been carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF, Project no. 17-18-01432-П).
Abstract:
The article discusses the notes from Vyach’s Ivanov lecture about “The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” (1938). Using the example of the specifics of Ivanov’s understanding of the historiosophical ideas expressed in the “poem”, the question of the methodological features of Ivanov’s interpretation is explored. It is shown that the lecture notes reflected the approach to the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” as a dialogical work. The principle of dialogism is revealed, on the one hand, thanks to a historical and literary analysis of the form of the legend, the genesis of its plot and the ideas embodied in it. The principle of dialogism is revealed, on the one hand, through the historical-literary analysis of the legend's form, the genesis of its plot, and the ideas embodied in it, and on the other hand, through the clash of viewpoints of the characters (Ivan Karamazov and Alyosha, Ivan Karamazov and Elder Zosima), as well as the worldview perspectives of the author of the poem (Ivan Karamazov) and the author of the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” (Fyodor Dostoevsky).
