ARTISTIC SPEECHES IN THE HISTORY OF JEWISH WAR (FIGURATIVE)

Category: Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature: Issue 23
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Author: Anatoly S. Demin
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Anatoly S. Demin, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

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Demin, A.S. “Artistic Speeches in the ‘History of Jewish War’ (Figurative).” Germenevtika drevnerusskoi literatury [Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature]. Issue 23. Ed.-in-chief O.A. Tufanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 123–138. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/HORL.1607-6192-2024-23-123-138 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/HORL.1607-6192-2024-23-123-138
UDC: 821.161.1.0
Keywords: eloquence, figurativeness, expressiveness, appearance of a scribe as a writer.

Abstract:

The article examines the cases of figurativeness in the speeches of characters in the Old Russian translation of the History of Jewish War. Seventeen speeches of various figures in the monument are analyzed. It is concluded that the figurativeness in History arose spontaneously as a result of a detailed description of events and that the figurative places in the work were not actually the author’s end in itself, but served the expressiveness of the narrative, like other means of poetics. As confirmation, the Appendix to the article provides examples of paradoxical aphorisms and figurative usage in the monument text.

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2 Flavii Iosif. Iudeiskaia voina [Jewish War], trans. by Ia.L. Chertka. St. Petersburg, Tipo- litografiia A.S. Landau Publ., 1900. 529 p. (In Russian)