Die Funktion der Tropen in Aleksandr Prochanovs literarischer Publizistik

Abstract

This paper investigates the tropological structure of Aleksandr Prochanov’s journalistic writing froma deconstructive perspective. The aimof my analysis is to show that the presence of tropes in Prochanov’s journalism cannot simply be explained as a political-ideological manipulation of literary language, as stated by most of the scholars. In my opinion it is connected to the rhetorical nature of language, i. e. to the possibility to speak and write in images and thus to subvert the relation between signified and signifier. As I show in the analysis of the exemplary text Stalin is not bronze but the speed of light, the tropological structure of the language deconstructs not only the text, but the relationship between the author andthe text andthus leads us to a reinterpretationof the literary journalismas such.