{"id":5135,"date":"2026-05-26T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:42:06","slug":"31flsk126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/31flsk126.html","title":{"rendered":"M.Yu. Lermontov’s \u00abThe Demon\u00bb in the mirror of Karolina Pavlova’s \u00abA Double Life\u00bb: an experiment in intertextual analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poltavets Margarita Aleksandrovna<\/strong>
\nShenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China
\nE-mail: margaritapoltavets@yandex.ru
\nORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-5451-7809<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract.<\/strong> The article examines intertextual connections between M.Yu. Lermontov’s poem \u00abThe Demon\u00bb and K.K. Pavlova’s sketch \u00abA Double Life\u00bb. A systematic comparison of the Demon’s monologues addressed to Tamara and the speeches of the mysterious \u00abspirit\u00bb that sound in the dream of Pavlova’s heroine reveals the ways in which the Romantic model undergoes semantic transformation. The study employs methods of intertextual and structural-typological analysis, as well as a parametric comparison method, which allows the results to be presented in a system of tables. The article analyzes key parameters of the speaking subject: his ontological status (who speaks), the nature of the addressee (to whom the speech is addressed), the illocutionary goal of the utterance (for what purpose), as well as spatial organization (where and under what conditions the voice sounds) and rhetorical strategies (how the utterance is constructed). The study identifies speech and motif parallels between the works: the formula of recognition, rhetorical negation, the motif of exile, the antithesis of two worlds, and the motif of the awakening of the soul. It is found that Pavlova does not reproduce Lermontov’s structures verbatim but reworks them, transferring them from the ontological plane to the socio-psychological one. The study identifies four main directions of transformation of Lermontov’s text in Pavlova’s sketch: the desacralization of the \u00abdemonic\u00bb principle, the inversion of the female image, the sublimation of amorous passion into creativity, and the internalization of conflict. It is demonstrated that Pavlova, while preserving the typological structure of Lermontov’s text (voice \u2014 heroine \u2014 existential choice), transposes the metaphysical conflict into the socio-psychological realm, reflecting the transition in Russian literature from Romantic universalism to psychological realism.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> Lermontov; Pavlova; \u00abThe Demon\u00bb; \u00abA Double Life\u00bb; intertextuality; poetics; internal conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poltavets Margarita Aleksandrovna Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China E-mail: margaritapoltavets@yandex.ru ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-5451-7809 Abstract. The article examines intertextual connections between M.Yu. Lermontov’s poem \u00abThe Demon\u00bb and K.K. Pavlova’s sketch \u00abA Double Life\u00bb. A systematic comparison of the Demon’s monologues addressed to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-1-2026","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}