On the Typology of Female Images in the Works by A. S. Pushkin: Gender Aspect

Abstract

The author analyses women’s images created by A. S. Pushkin at different stages of his creative work. Referring to them, the author illustrates the evolution of the poet’s idea of the heroine’s ideal world and the means to create it in progress from the aesthetics of romanticism to the realist paradigm. Having analysed a number of epic and lyrical epic plots created by Pushkin, the author reconstructs the poet’s invariant image of a bride heroine. It reflects Pushkin’s ethical position as related to the role of a woman in society and family, making it possible for it to be used as a basis for a typology of women’s images in Pushkin’s creative work. The author puts an emphasis on the correlation of the aforementioned invariant both with the patriarchal and matriarchal models of gender consciousness. The images of Pushkin’s brides heroines are viewed through the prism of interconnected motifs of rebelliousness and self-sufficiency which reflects the process of the poet’s search for harmony between the ideals of femininity and personal freedom. The article draws a genesis of the bridal plot reflecting the gender preferences of the great poet, starting with different behavioural patterns of the heroines as part of the bridal plot to the plot of spouses in Pushkin’s later works of the 1830s. The author puts forwards a number of suppositions and hypotheses connected with the reconsideration of the traditional interpretations of images and plots created by the outstanding poet.

Keywords

• образ
• структура
• сюжет
• гендер
• патриархатная модель
• матриархатная модель.