Without such approaches we can only get a partial (and perhaps overly deterministic) view of discursive effects, which misconsider their processes of regulation.

From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.

How does the novel realize spatiality? Other art forms such as painting or cinema fill out a sort of pseudospace: the work can imitate, more or less accurately, the space of the world […]

Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.