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Adapting pannochka: From Gogol's "Viy" to Kadijević's Sveto Mesto

Seigne, Siobhan Taylor
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713275065121108

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2024, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.
Since its publication in 1835, Nikolai Gogol’s “Viy” has been adapted many times, both in film and literature. Subsequent adaptations preserve many elements of the original, but what may be missing is the title character, Viy. However, the witch character pannochka almost always features in one way or another. This paper traces pannochka from the original short story by Gogol through two film adaptations: the 1967 Soviet film Viy directed by Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachev and the 1990 Serbian film Sveto Mesto directed by Đorđe Kadijević (1990). My analysis is concerned with changes in pannochka’s representation from work to work and is situated within the framework of adaptation theory’s concept of intertextual dialogism as well as psychoanalytic feminist film and literary theory. Informed by these theories, I interrogate the transformations of the character pannochka in three ways (1) how she gains visibility and a greater voice throughout the adaptations (2) how there is an ambiguity in her gender representation and (3) how her reading as a castrating figure in each of the works is problematic. Using these frameworks, I argue that in each subsequent adaptation pannochka gains increased representation within the story but is ultimately still trapped within her original male-authored narrative.
Yana Hashamova (Advisor)
Alexander Burry (Committee Member)
Angela Brintlinger (Committee Member)
48 p.
Slavic Literature

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  • Seigne, S. T. (2024). Adapting pannochka: From Gogol's "Viy" to Kadijević's Sveto Mesto [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713275065121108

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Seigne, Siobhan. Adapting pannochka: From Gogol's "Viy" to Kadijević's Sveto Mesto. 2024. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713275065121108.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Seigne, Siobhan. "Adapting pannochka: From Gogol's "Viy" to Kadijević's Sveto Mesto." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1713275065121108

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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