title: From the Romantic to Hilarious: Pretext Alterations in A Legend of the Rhine by William Thackeray
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metadata.value: Tuliakova, Natalia A.
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metadata.value: 2017-07-19T14:34:58Z
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metadata.value: 2017-07-19T14:34:58Z
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metadata.value: 2017-03
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metadata.value: Tuliakova N. A. From the Romantic to Hilarious: Pretext Alterations in A Legend of the Rhine by William Thackeray. Vestnik SPbSU. Language and Literature, 2017, vol. 14, issue 1, pp. 40–48.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2017.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6978
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metadata.value: The article compares the text of A Legend of the Rhine by Thackeray with Othon l’archer by Dumas,
  père, which was used as a pretext by Thackeray. Among the identified compositional differences between
  the texts, the most significant one is the absence of the embedded tale of the Swan knight, a
  variation of Lohengrin legend, in A Legend of the Rhine. The reasons for Thackeray’s omitting this
  tale are analyzed. First of all it was necessary to simplify the text from the cultural and psychological
  perspectives in order to make a burlesque out of it. Another reason was a more complicated system
  of narrative voices used by Thackeray compared to Dumas, which did not allow the English writer to
  introduce yet another narrator. Next, the embedded tale in Othon l’archer heightened the verisimilitude
  of the narration as a whole, whereas Thackeray emphasized the fictionality of his tale. Finally, the
  narrative centre was shifted by Thackeray from the dramatic episode to the comic one (the legend of
  Windeck castle). Refs 24.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 14; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: William Thackeray
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metadata.value: Alexandre Dumas, père
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metadata.value: parody
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: burlesque
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: embedded narrative
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metadata.value: From the Romantic to Hilarious: Pretext Alterations in A Legend of the Rhine by William Thackeray
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