title: Strindberg’s A Dream Play and Gumilyov’s Allah’s Child. A mystery plot
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metadata.value: Kumukova, Dzhamilya
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-01-31T12:07:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-01-31T12:07:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Kumukova D. D. Strindberg’s A Dream Play and Gumilyov’s Allah’s Child. A mystery plot. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 2, pp. 311–327.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38929
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metadata.value: Тhe article explores the issue of implementation of a mystery plot in the dramaturgy
  of the turn of 19th–20th centuries. Within the aspect of the given topic, two plays
  are considered — A. Strindberg’s drama A Dream Play, and N. S. Gumilyov’s fairy tale
  Allah’s Child. It is an attempt to demonstrate that in these works one can find the same
  plotline, which can be traced back to the myth of Persephone. With various interpretations
  still around as to the content of the ancient Greek mystery, is can generally be acknowledged
  that the myth comprised the foundation of the sacred action at Eleusis; the
  debate only concerns its “stage” adaptation. At the turn of 19th–20th centuries, the story
  of Persephone is already creating its own, new myth about the trials of a wandering soul
  on the path of knowledge. In Strindberg’s and Gumilyov’s plays, the soul (Persephone)
  is played by a divine being: in A Dream Play it is the daughter of god Indra of ancient
  Indian mythology, and in Allah’s Child it is the daughter of a god from the mythology
  of peoples of Central and Minor Asia. Both heroines go through a hard path of earthly
  sorrows, and in the denouement return to the divine world. This plot structure, which
  mirrors the development of an ancient mystery, both playwrights — Swedish and Russian
  — introduce the Poet as a character. In both A Dream Play and Allah’s Child the
  Poet becomes an intermediary between the earthly and divine lives, bridging the gap
  between those worlds, and, in essence, acting as Dionysus. The general trend, whereby
  the dramaturgy of “the turn” looked back to ancient mythology, speaks to the ongoing
  process of myth structuring, as it acquires new meaningful layers.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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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 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: drama
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Strindberg
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gumilyov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A Dream Play
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Allah’s Child
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metadata.value: mystery
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: myth
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: poet
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Strindberg’s A Dream Play and Gumilyov’s Allah’s Child. A mystery plot
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metadata.value: Article
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