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Slavica TerGestina 2012
Historicism and realism in the works of Lyudmila UlitskayaKeywords: realism , historicity , L. Ulitskaya , reality , fiction , L. Tolstoy Abstract: Since the application of realism as an unambiguous category in literary scholarship has been problematic for a long time, it is impossible to provide a comprehensive answer to the question whether a distinct return to 19th cen-tury realism can actually be observed in contemporary Russian literature. Nevertheless, a discreet poetic feature, historicity, which is traditionally part of any definition of realism and which is a characteristic poetic method of 19th century authors and works, is clearly discernible. This study exam-ines how historicity functions and what poetic source it can be connected to in L. Ulitskaya’s works.
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