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• Title:
  The Borders of Irony – the Borders of Illusion. On the Character Ontology in Alexander Pushkin’s and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”
• Creator:
  Borkowska-Rychlewska, Alina
• Description:
  The article presents the characteristics of the romantic irony employed in Alexander Pushkin’s digressive poem Eugene Onegin and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s opera titled alike. The analysis of selected fragments of the libretto which were based on the verses constituting the digressive (rather than storytelling) layer of Pushkin’s work allow one to conclude that the operatic version of Onegin expresses exactly the same kind of romantic irony which was used by the romantic poet. The authors of the libretto achieved something typical of Pushkin’s irony – a flow of the border between illusion and disillusion and an effortless crossing of the dialectic borders of time and space. They did so by multiplying and splitting into layers the “I” of the main character which functions both in the dramatic plane and beyond it, taking over the functions which in Pushkin’s text were performed by the narrator.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska
• Date:
  2022.09.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Poznań Polish Studies. Literary Series; No. 42 (2022): Postać w operze; 137-155;
  Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka; Nr 42 (2022): Postać w operze; 137-155;
  2450-4947;
  1233-8680
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/35698/30727
• Subject:
  Eugene Onegin;
  Alexander Pushkin;
  Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
  digressive poem;
  romantic irony;
  stage illusion
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/35698
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text