politscienceПолитическая наукаPolitical science1998-1775ИНИОН РАН10.31249/poln/2025.04.10politscience-1245Research ArticleКОНТЕКСТ«Квазинарратив»: к перспективам литературоведческого концепта в политической науке“Quasi-narrative”: towards the prospects of a literary studies’ concept in political sciencehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8562-6541ПоцелуевС. П.PotseluevS. P.

Поцелуев Сергей Петрович, доктор политических наук, профессор, профессор кафедры теоретической и прикладной политологии; главный научный сотрудник лаборатории политологии и права

Ростов-на-Дону

Potseluev Sergey

Rostov-on-Don

spotselu@mail.ruЮжный федеральный университет; Южный научный центр РАНРоссияSouthern Federal University; Federal Research Centre, The Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation20250612202504Психология политических процессов225248Copyright © Поцелуев С.П., 20252025Поцелуев С.П.Potseluev S.P.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://www.politnauka.ru/jour/article/view/1245

Статья нацелена на осмысление перспектив использования концепта квазинарратива в методологии политической науки. Отправным пунктом размышлений автора выступает дискуссия о специфике политического нарратива, обусловленная конкуренцией эссенциалистского и релятивистского подходов к его истолкованию. Отмечая роль развитого в традиции Narrative Policy Framework понятия «индекса нарративности», автор ставит вопрос о необходимости осмысления роли квазинарративов в политическом дискурсе. «Квазинарратив» – это зонтичное понятие для всех видов необычной нарративности, так или иначе не вписывающейся в стандартные определения (понятия) нарратива. В статье отмечается, что концептуализация неестественных нарративов актуализирует вопрос о границах повествовательности как таковой. Квазинарратив играет на границе повествовательности, но оставаясь в ее орбите, отличается от псевдонарратива, который лишь имитирует ее главные отличительные признаки. С опорой на работы известных нарратологов (Брайана Ричардсона, Джеральда Принса, Робин Уорхол и др.) автор предлагает обзор основных видов квазинарратива. К ним отнесены ненарративное [unnarrated], диснарративное [disnarrated], ноннарративное [nonnarrated], денарративное [denarrated], антинарративное [antinarrative], а также неповествуемое [unnarratable] в нескольких его разновидностях и категориальная пара «недорассказанного» [undernarrated] и «сверхрассказанного» [overnarrated]. В заключительной части статьи формулируется ряд соображений и гипотез относительно методологического потенциала данной категориальной сетки в таких исследовательских областях политической науки, как экспликация неявных властных (идеологических) установок и стратегий в дискурсе, когнитивноэмоциональные игры с медийной аудиторией, дискурсивные игры с цензурой, конструирование и деконструкция политических идентичностей, потенциал квазинарративов в прогнозировании социально-политических кризисов. 

he article aims to understand the prospects for using the concept of quasi-narrative in the methodology of political science. The starting point of the author’s reflections is a discussion about the specifics of political narrative caused by the competition between essentialist and relativist approaches to its interpretation. Noting the role of the concept of “narrativity index” developed in the tradition of the Narrative Policy Framework, the author raises the question of the need to understand the role of quasi-narratives in political discourse. “Quasi-narrative” is an umbrella concept for all types of unusual narrativity that somehow do not fit into standard definitions (concepts) of narrative. The article notes that the conceptualization of unnatural narratives actualizes the question of the boundaries of storytelling as such. The author agrees that one of the essential features of the standard narrative is the representation of events in time, as well as the presence of a significant connection between them. Quasi-narrative plays on the borderline of the so-understood narrative, but remaining in its orbit, it differs from pseudo-narrative, which only imitates the narrative’s main distinguishing features. Based on the works of well-known narratologists (Brian Richardson, Gerald Prince, Robin Warhol, etc.), the author provides an overview of the main types of quasi-narrative discourse, including the unnarrated, the nonnarrated, the denarrated, the antinarrative, and the unnarratable in several of its varieties as well as the categorical pair of the undernarrated and the overnarrated. The article formulates several considerations and hypotheses regarding the methodological potential of quasi–narrative categorical grid in such research fields of political science as the explication of implicit power (ideological) attitudes and strategies in discourse, cognitive–emotional games with media audiences, discursive games with censorship, the construction and deconstruction of political identities, and the potential of quasi–narratives in predicting socio-political crises.

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