RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN WRITERS IN PISEMSKIY’S NOVELS INTERTEXTUAL FIELD
The article examines intertextual field of Pisemskiy's novels 'Thousend souls' and 'Boyarhood' which include not only domestic but also foreign pretexts. The main forms of the intertextuality were revealed: quotations, allusions and reminiscences, which bring us to explication of the author’s position and consideration of already known images and motives in a new cultural context. The conclusion is made that intertextual connections enriches significantly artistic world of Pisemskiy's novels introducing to the writer’s worldbuilding additional semantic connotations and forming overtones of his works. The basic methods of the research in the declared aspect are the comparative-historical, intending the discovery of common elements in the works of various national literatures for a long period of time, and intertextual analysis method focused on the study of intertextual interactions and revealing the role of intertextual dimensions which create a special twist of the novels’ conceptual meaning on the basis of their relationship with other artistic texts.