title: The Roads Round Pisa by Karen Blixen — a play with a plot and a form
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metadata.value: Korovin, Andrey
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metadata.value: 2022-08-18T07:20:52Z
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metadata.value: 2022-08-18T07:20:52Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Korovin A. The Roads Round Pisa by Karen Blixen — a play with a plot and a form. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 98–110.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37423
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metadata.value: The article focuses on specific structural features of tales written by Karen Blixen,
  now considered to be the main Danish writer of the 20th century. Her first book, Seven
  Gothic Tales, was published in English in 1934. The Roads Round Pisa and other tales
  from this book are not only full of symbols and metaphors, but also have complex
  structures at the level of composition and of plot. The narration in Blixen’s writings
  contains intense action; it is a dramatization of the text. The concept of “theatricality”
  constantly exists in many her tales and it is important for the interpretation of ideas
  in The Roads Round Pisa: but this concept generally determines a form of the text and
  its composition, which has some similarity to the composition of 5-acts drama. The
  motive of a play becomes the important structural component in this text; it is also
  connected to the plot and to images. Personages in this tale play different roles and
  change many masks. There are two types of heroes: heroes — actors on the stage and
  heroes — members of audience in the tale. The motive of a play creates also a particular
  subtext — required for understanding hidden matters, which a plot is built on. Theatricality
  of a text, on the one hand, brings more complicity, diversity; clarity of perception
  often is lost, because there is a certain coded meaning in the narration. On the other
  hand, it forces a reader to search for ways to comprehend the text. It looks like a reader
  is involved in a play, and only if he accepts rules of this play, he can understand hidden
  meaning of all circumstances. Karen Blixen uses the concept of theatricality to create
  absolutely original narratives inherent only in her poetic manner
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 20; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karen Blixen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theatricality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: play
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: novella
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: drama
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Roads Round Pisa by Karen Blixen — a play with a plot and a form
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