D.S. Mirsky about the Comic in Russian Literature

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-18.050

Perhin Vladimir V.,

Doctor of Philology,

Professor at Department of History of Journalism at Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Saint Petersburg State University

e-mail: perhin-vlad@yandex.ru

The article analyzes the views of D.S. Mirsky on the nature of the comic in its history of Russian literature. It shows the understanding of the nature of the comic, the variety of techniques to its interpretation and the steady attention to the identification of the synthesis of comic with other stylistic devices in belles-lettres.

Keywords: D.S. Mirsky, comic, Russian literary criticism, style, V.S. Solovyov, A.A. Blok, N.V. Gogol, A.N. Ostrovsky, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A.P. Chekhov, A.T. Averchenko.

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