«THE THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NARRATIVE ANALYSIS»

The article examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of analyzing artistic narrative in Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse Eugene Onegin. The study is based on a complex methodological framework drawing on the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Yuri Lotman, and Alexander Veselovsky. These approaches make it possible to interpret narrative not as a linear sequence of events, but as a multi-level artistic system integrating authorial consciousness, textual structure, and cultural-historical context. Particular attention is paid to dialogism, the semiotic organization of the text, and the principle of free composition. The analysis demonstrates that Eugene Onegin represents an authorial-lyrical, lyric-epic, and dialogically structured type of narrative that played a decisive role in the development of the Russian novelistic tradition.