UDC

81’42

DOI

10.37482/2227-6564-V005

Authors

Andzhella N. Smolina
Siberian Federal University; prosp. Svobodnyy 82a, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russian Federation;
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0947-3763 e-mail: angelic2009@mail.ru

Abstract

This article deals with peculiarities of intertextuality in the spiritual homily letter, which is a subgenre of the spiritual letter as an epistolary genre of the religious and ecclesiastical style. The research is based on moral and didactical epistolary texts of 20th-century monk writers. It is stated here that the main forms of intertextuality in the spiritual homily letter are quotations (literal and modified), allusions, and reminiscences, whose unique feature is having religionyms as one of their elements. Further, the author outlines the range of precedent texts used by ecclesiastical writers in letters to their spiritual disciples: the Old and New Testaments, writings of the Church Fathers, Psalter, akathists, prayers, hagiographies, and, less frequently, works of Russian and foreign secular literature and Russian proverbs. The most quoted texts are those of Gospels and prayers. It is also claimed here that the main feature of intertextuality in the spiritual homily letter is the ecclesiastical and religious character of its elements. As the principal functions of intertextuality the following are distinguished: argumentative, didactical (instructive), syndicative (the uniting function serving to solidarize the correspondents), axiological (orientating towards the right values) and explanatory. The combination of the above functions is considered here as a characteristic trait of the spiritual homily letter and a specific feature of intertextuality in the texts under study. It is noteworthy that quotations, allusions and reminiscences can fulfil the depictive, informative, sense-making and aesthetic functions. Moreover, it is emphasized that the functional specificity of religious and ecclesiastical intertextemes is accounted for by didactical objectives of the author. These include guiding the disciples towards acquiring virtues, fighting sins and passions as well as seeking salvation.
For citation: Smolina A.N. Intertextuality and Its Realization in the Spiritual Homily Letter. Vestnik Severnogo (Arkticheskogo) federal’nogo universiteta. Ser.: Gumanitarnye i sotsial’nye nauki, 2020, no. 2, pp. 43–52. DOI: 10.37482/2227-6564-V005

Keywords

spiritual homily letter, intertextuality, allusion, reminiscence, intertextual analysis, precedent text

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Received: 6 September 2019
Accepted: 20 November 2019