The principle of binary oppositions as the ideological and compositional basis of Yu. Polyakov’s political story “Demgorodok”
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2022-70-4-139-144
Abstract
The subject of the study is the phenomenon of binary in the political story “Demgorodok” by Yu. Polyakov.
This paper considers binary opposition as one of the most important modes for creating a picture of the world in the story “Demgorodok”. We analyze the four main oppositions in this story: “a princess – a swineherd”, “an EX-president – an ex-PRESIDENT”, “‘Democrats’ – a Deliverer of the Fatherland”, “power – people”, as well as fictional images of characters who have moved from one extreme to another. The abundance of sharp opposites creates a grotesque atmosphere in the story and allows the author to satirically reflect the absurd social phenomena of the early 1990s. The research methodology is based on the conceptual method, there are elements of the descriptive method and a component analysis of the text.
The purpose of the study is to reveal the role of binary oppositions as one of the main methods for building a fictional world in the dystopian story “Demgorodok”.
The study is relevant due to the need to reveal the manifestation of binary in the “Demgorodok” world model from the position of cognitive science.
The scientific novelty consists in the implementation, from cognitive-hermeneutical perspectives, of a multidimensional study of binary oppositions in the world, created by Yu. Polyakov in his “Demgorodok”.
About the Author
He Jinhua
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
He Jinhua, graduate student
119991
GSP-1 Leninskie Gory
Moscow
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Jinhua H. The principle of binary oppositions as the ideological and compositional basis of Yu. Polyakov’s political story “Demgorodok”. Philology and Culture. 2022;(4):139-144. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2022-70-4-139-144
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