The Interaction of Narrative and Performativein I.A. Bunin’s Prosimetric Short Stories
Journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University
Year: 2025

The article presents the study of interaction of the lyrical and the epic (the performative and the narrative) in the prosimetric fictional text. Attention is drawn to the aspect of the impact of lyrical discourse with its special way of organizing the artistic whole on epic discourse which completes «narrated event» in the «storytelling event». Inclusion of poetic inserts in a prosaic text should be considered not only from the point of view of rhythm or as a manifestation of intertextuality, b