"The Queen of Spades"

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The paper defines Romanticism and goes on to point out the main Romantic elements in Alexander Pushkin's story "The Queen of Spades". The paper examines the main character, Hermann, and shows how he is a typical dark, Romantic hero.

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"The Queen of Spades is certainly the best prose achievement of Pushkin. Pushkin is indubitably one of the greatest Romantic poets. Like most Romantic poets, he believed that the best and truest expression of art was in poetry. Surprisingly, his short story, The Queen of Spades, is not written in the typical Romantic style at all. There are no lengthy descriptions and even the descriptive adjectives and adverbs are used sparingly. The prose has a minimum of detail and description, either of atmosphere or characters. The terse and economical prose style however does not make the story less effective or less Romantic, as Pushkin manages to convey powerful ideas and impressions despite the laconic and curt style of the work. Interestingly, besides the curt style of the text there is yet another quality that seems to minimize the Romantic effect of the text."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Pushkin, Alexander. The Queen of Spades and Other Stories. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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