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- A FEMALE LITERARY PORTRAIT IN THE NOVEL «THREE LOVES» BY ARCHIBALD JOSEPH CRONIN
- Novikova A.A. A female literary portrait in the novel «Three Loves» by Archibald Joseph Cronin. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2024, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 77–86. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-4-77-86
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-4-77-86
- УДК: 821(410.5).09”20”
- EDN: CKGZTI
- Publish date: 2024-10-08
- Annotation: The article analyses the artistic concept of female characters in the dynamics of the author’s worldview on the material of the Scottish writer’s novel, identifies attempts to create a typology of Archibald Joseph Cronin’s female characters, and reveals the specificity of the heroines’ portrayal in realistic prose. The author believes that the study of female images with the help of literary portrait helps to determine the essential features of the prose and artistic world of the writer. The article highlights figurative analogies connected with autobiographical facts, and the typological approach chosen by the author to the female image system in the writer’s work allows not only to determine the internal logic of Archibald Cronin’s artistic worldview, but also the presence of “literary and aesthetic commonality”. The research proves that the writer managed to colourfully draw all female images with the help of his heroine, through her emotions and relationships with other characters. Thus, the writer’s female literary portrait is characterised by the preservation of the features of everyday plausibility and individuality: the female characters in the novel have both general typical features and individual ones.
- Keywords: literary portrait, female image, psychological characteristic, novel, autobiography, world literary process.
- Funding and acknowledgments: this work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, code assigned by the founder (organisation) – VGEA-2024-0068
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