This book applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorizing Andreev’s unique art and placing it within a literary-evolutionary perspective.
Drawing on a range of literary theory from early Russian Formalism onwards, the study proceeds from one level to another according to a principle of ‘degree of abstraction’, so that each level constitutes firstly an independent account of Andreev’s texts in itself, and secondly one stage in an overall analysis.
This book, originally published in paperback in 1990 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-35-7, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.
Contents:
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A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev 1900–1909 Stephen Hutchings Complete volume as single PDF
(A) Andreev the Lone Figure in Russian Literature — A Writer Without an ‘ism’; (B) An Alternative Perspective — The Text as Sign; (C) Structure, Aims, Terms of Reference.
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Chapter One: Some Aspects of the Poetics of Andreev’s Prose Stephen Hutchings doi:10.59860/td.c7bc9c5
1. Andreev and the Short Story: Poeticity, Narrative Transformation, Narrative Memory, Internal Motivation, The Short Story and Literary Evolution: (A) Poeticity in the Short Story and Andreev; (B) Narrative Transformation; (C) Reduced Narrative Memory; (D) Internal Motivation; (E) The Short Story and the Evolutionary Process. 2. The Assembly of Meaning in the Andreevan Text: Paradigmatics and Syntagmatics: (A) Intertextual Paradigms, Character, Event, Discourse; (B) Internalized Paradigms; (C) ‘Iuda Iskariot’ and the Breach of Character as Unity; (D) Continuation of Paradigm and the Andreevan Ending; (E) From Internalized Paradigm to Intertextual Paradigm; (F) Internalization and Figures of Speech; (G) Paradigmatic and the Centripetal Text; (H) Parallels in the Works of Andreev’s Contemporaries; (I) Metaphor and Metonymy as Syntagmatic Generating Forces; (J) Intext and the Metonymy of Levels; (K) Andreev and the Disjunction of Signifier and Signified. 3. Space and Its Link with Time in the Andreevan Text — The Chronotope: (A) The Andreevan Chronotope and Detemporalization; (B) The Compensatory Function of Space; (C) Space and its Collaboration in Removal of Difference; (D) The Semantic Importance of Space in Other Writers.
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Chapter Two: The Modelling Function of the Andreevan Text Stephen Hutchings doi:10.59860/td.c8cbe0c
1. Text and World: (A) Metaphor and the Fantastic; (B) Metaphor, "Zavershennost" and Genre; (C) Metaphor, Appearance and Reality, Polyvalence. 2. Text and Modality: (A) The Modality of the Andreevan Text; (B) Modality and the Fantastic; (C) Modality and Time; (D) Modality and Polemic; (E) Modality and the Textual Model. 3. Text and Origin, Text and Destination: (A) Enonciation and Enoncé; (B) Discourse and Story; (C) Discourse of Narrator — Discourse of Characters; (D) Discourse as Word-Presentation and Story as Object-Presentation; (E) Style and the Discourse-Story Relationship; (F) The Reader in the Andreevan Text.
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Chapter Three: Literary Evolution and the Codes of the Andreevan Text Stephen Hutchings doi:10.59860/td.c051b6f
1. What is a code? 2. Literary Theory and Literary Evolution; 3. The Andreevan Text and the Master-Code of Realism; 4. Andreev and the Codes of Allegory — Allegory and Motivation; 5. Conventional Allegory; 6. Pseudo-Allegory; 7. Psycho-dramas a; 8. Psycho-dramas b; 9. Non-allegorical Stories; 10. An Internal Typology; 11. Allegory, Inner Dramas and the Common Semiological Problem; 12. Typology — Supplement; 13. The Andreevan Text and Multiple Coding; 14. Andreev, Literary Evolution and Undercoding.
1. The Methodological Principle and the Meaning of Culture; 2. Metaphor and Myth; 3. Andreev and the Broadening of the Aesthetic Function; 4. The New Communicational Situation; 5. The Continual-Mythic and the Role of the Reader; 6. Carnival and the Profane; 7. The Spirit of Contradiction; 8. Synthesis.
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A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev 1900–1909: End Matter Stephen Hutchings doi:10.59860/td.c48e8a3
Bibliography: (A) Theory (Literary, Cultural, Artistic); (B) Published Writings of Andreev, Manuscripts, Memoirs about the Author; (C) Andreev — Secondary Literature; (D) Miscellaneous. Back cover.
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Hutchings, Stephen, A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev (1900-1909), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 32 (MHRA, 1990)
First footnote reference:35 Stephen Hutchings, A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev (1900-1909), MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 32 (MHRA, 1990), p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Hutchings, p. 47.
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