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Mythological structure of the «Queen of Spades» by А.S. Pushkin and P.I. Tchaikovsky

Гудимова С.А.

Abstract

The paper analyzes the mythological structure of crime and madness in the story of A. S. Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades and the return to the sentimentalist myth Poor Lisa in the opera by P. I. Tchaikovsky.

Keywords

peeping; incest; matricide; life is a game; “fall”; suicide; the poetics of “sensitive” style.

DOI: 10.31249/hoc/2019.02.02

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