THE SEMANTICS OF COLORATIVES IN TOLSTOY’S NARRATIVES (“THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH”, “THE KREUTZER SONATA”, “THE DEVIL”)

In Tolstoy’s stories of the 1870s the coloratives have negative semantics. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” the yellow color “implicates” a movement to death. In “The Kreutzer Sonata” this color aggravates Pozdnyshev’s moral sufferings and embodies deception and lust. In “The Devil” the description of...

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Main Author: Elena A. Masolova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Petrozavodsk State University 2017-03-01
Series:Problemy Istoričeskoj Poètiki
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Online Access:http://poetica.pro/files/redaktor_pdf/1488807901.pdf