Skaz
Skaz (Russian: сказ, IPA: literary device, but is also used as an element in Russian monologue comedy.[4]
Skaz was first described by the Russian
Turgenev or Leskov), and double-voiced skaz, where an author's parodistic intention is evident (as found in Gogol or Dostoevsky).[7]
In the nineteenth century, the style was most prominently used by Nikolai Leskov, in addition to Gogol. Twentieth-century proponents include Aleksey Remizov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Andrei Platonov, and Isaac Babel.[1] The term is also used to describe elements in the literature of other countries; in recent times it has been popularised by the British author and literary critic David Lodge.[8] John Mullan, a professor of English at University College London, finds examples of skaz in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little.[9]
References
- ^ a b c Cornwell, Neil (2005). "Skaz Narrative". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ "skaz". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Britannica. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ISBN 0-521-34460-3.
- ^ S2CID 194082040. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ a b Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones. "Skaz". Russian History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ Bakhtin, M., "Discourse Typology in Prose" (1929), in Readings in Russian Poetics, ed. L. Matejka and K. Pomorska (Ann Arbor, 1978), pp. 180-182.
- ^ Bakhtin, Mikhail (1984). Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. University of Minnesota Press. p. 194.
- ISBN 0-14-017492-3.
- ^ Mullan, John (2006-11-18). "Talk this way". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
Further reading
- Hicks, Jeremy Guy (2000). Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Poetics of Skaz. Nottingham: Astra. ISBN 0-946134-61-8.
- Victor Terras, ed. (1985). Handbook of Russian Literature. New Haven, London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03155-6.
- Danielle Jones, ed. (2015). Skaz: Masters of Russian Storytelling. Canada: Translit Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9812695-42.
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