Парадокс как художественное средство в стиле «плетение словес» (на примере Жития Сергия Радонежского)

T he literary paradox as an artistic device was often used in Old Russian literature of the “weaving of words” style. Antitheses, antinomies and oppo sitions play a special role in the hagiographic works of Epiphanius the Wise: the author emphasizes the most important ideas of the work with the help of the literary paradox: the idea of holiness, the opposition of earthly and heavenly life, the idea of miracle and the presence of the Divine.