Streszczenie:
The main objective of this paper is to describe the types and functions of
biblical and liturgical citation in M. V. Lomonosov’s works. This research into
Lomonosov’s text corpus shows that explicit biblical and liturgical citation
can be revealed in the texts of different genres—both in his poetry and in his
prose works (and not only in “poetic” rhetorical prose). The paper focuses on
different forms of biblical and liturgical contexts in Lomonosov’s panegyric
odes, natural science texts, working papers, and letters. Three sources of biblical
and liturgical parallels were used: the Moscow Bible (1663), the Festal Menaion
(1730), and the Octoechos (1715); the latter includes Lomonosov’s notes in the
margins. The research shows that Lomonosov proceeds in various ways: he
might mention a Bible source with out citation; he might use marked citations;
and he might include biblical and liturgical citations into his own speech without
reinterpretation, sometimes giv ing them some additional semantics. Biblical
and liturgical phraseology can be described as using the following specific
forms: a) phrases that actuate biblical and liturgical semantics in Lomonosov’s
panegyric odes (an im portant issue is to reveal which context is relevant—the
biblical or the liturgical); b) those that demonstrate logical consistency between
science and religion in Lo monosov’s natural science texts; c) those that construct
polemic and ironic context in prose works of different genres; and d) those
that emphasize some statements in Lomonosov’s letters, creating the effect of
“switching the languages.”
