Tradition of the author"s mask in Russian prose of the 18th-19th centuries. Monograph

The author’s mask is one of the most important signs of literary consciousness from antiquity to modernity, becomes a synthesis of self -expression of the author and its reincarnation from a "real" figure into an artistic image that functions within the text space. The monograph examines the author’s mask as one of the most important elements of the author’s strategy. The place of the author’s mask in the structure of the author’s consciousness in the process of becoming the institution of authorship is comprehended, and the tradition of using the author’s mask in the general context of the history of Russian literature of the 20th century is also studied. On the material of Russian prose of the XVIII-XIX centuries: M. Chulkova, V. Senkovsky, I. Krylov, A. Pushkin, N. Gogol, V. Odoevsky, V. Dalya. The first study of the process of author’s self -identification and the category of mask as a false author’s identification, nature and forms of its functioning expands the idea of ​​the action of the identification mechanism and about the problems of identity as a whole.
For a wide range of readers interested in Russian fiction. It may be useful to students, graduate students and teachers of philological universities and faculties