A Scapegoat for All Seasons
The Unity and the Shape ofThe Tales of Belkin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4207236 |
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| Authors | Richard Gregg (0000-0003-2401-8611), Richard B Gregg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 748-761 |
| Publication date | 1971-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2493846 |
| OpenAlex | W2327373967 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Pushkin'sTales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkinare five in number, and four of them ("The Shot," "The Blizzard," "The Stationmaster," and "The Lady-Peasant") belong to the same literary species. The narrative features binding this quartet of stories together are, in the main, conventional. Each relates-among other things-the story of a young man who, having won the affections of a beautiful woman, overcomes some obstacle (or series of obstacles) which threatens their union, thereby paving the way to, or consolidating, amariage d'amourat the end of the tale. All of which is to say that embedded in each is one of the oldest of all plots, the "successful courtship
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Courtship · Literature · Narrative · Peasant · Scapegoat · Theology · Zoology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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