A Gentle Creature’s Paradox. The aim of this article is to analyze a smile as a mimetic, nonverbal facial expression. Although a smile most often displays joy and pleasure, it sometimes expresses emotions such as sadness, cruelty, anger, etc. This analysis aims to focus on the paradoxical “mistrustful, silent, and evil smile” of A Gentle Creature. Her smile marks the beginning of her life with the Pawnbroker and it is her companion until the end of her life. The paradox of smile illuminates other paradoxes such as that of communication (verbal/nonverbal, communication/its negation), of death (suicide and the icon, destruction/resurrection, silence/birth of words), of the Pawnbroker’s story (author-narrator, narrative/story, fantastic/realistic, contradictions in the story), and of the event (real event/event in the narrator’s mind).
University of Zagreb, Croatia - ORCID: 0000-0001-8740-3934
Titolo del capitolo
Парадоксальность Кроткой
Autori
Jasmina Vojvodić
Lingua
Russian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3.12
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Ф.М. Достоевский: Юмор, парадоксальность, демонтаж
Curatori
Dar'ja Farafonova, Laura Salmon, Stefano Aloe
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
222
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0122-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0121-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0122-3
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0123-0
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
ISSN della collana
2612-7687
e-ISSN della collana
2612-7679