The expressiveness of Leonid Andreyev's literary works in the context of František Miko's system of expression Categories

Abstract

The study identifies the parallels between the poetics of Leonid Andreyev, one of the leading figures of Russian literary modernism, and literary expressionism. The author of the study uses the ideological and aesthetic program of the writer's work in the context of literary canon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as a basis for her research. The author defines the expressive element in Andreyev's work as a product of semantic disproportion between object and subject (based on František Miko's system of expression categories and his category of expressiveness) that manifests on both thematic and linguistic level of writer's prosaic and dramatic works.

Keywords

• Leonid Andreyev
• expressiveness
• expressionism
• František Miko
• system of expression categories