Object's details: „The Text Was Considered Miraculous”. Magic Words in Pasternak’s „Doctor Zhivago”

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Title:
„The Text Was Considered Miraculous”. Magic Words in Pasternak’s „Doctor Zhivago”
Creator:
Stanton, Rebecca Jane
Description:
In Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak brings scientific and political discourses into dialogue with magical ones. In an emblematic episode, two soldiers from opposing sides each wear a protective amulet containing the „miraculous” text of the 90th Psalm. One dies; one survivesWhile this discrepancy is easily traced to scientific and socioeconomic causes, the episode isdesigned to foreground the least rational explanation: that done right, magic actually worksEmbodying Pasternak’s interest in the interrelationships among science, politics, poetry, andmagic, the textual amulet is especially significant because it represents a magical power that is reserved for words. This article finds that Pasternak’s novel contains numerous examples of such efficacious „magical” texts – from the Gospels to peasant songs, from political slogans to Zhivago’s poems – and argues that reading Doctor Zhivago by the light of these„magic words” yields insights into the aesthetics and design of the novel.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2013.01.01
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Artykuł naukowy
Language:
English
Source:
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 4 (2013): Magiczna moc słów w językach, literaturach oraz kulturach słowiańskich; 165–176;
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 4 (2013): Magiczna moc słów w językach, literaturach oraz kulturach słowiańskich; 165–176;
2450-2731;
2084-3011
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/1297/1192
Subject:
Pasternak;
Doctor Zhivago;
magic;
politics;
poetics;
fairy tale;
socialist realism
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/1297
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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