THE IMAGEIS OF GERMAN CITIES IN RUSSIAN TRAVELOGUES AT THE TURN OF XIX CENTURY
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2017-2-189-194
Abstract
The paper deals with specific features of representing German cities and towns in Russian travelogues at the turn of the XIX century written by V. N. Zinov'ev, D. I. Fonvizin, N. M. Karamzin and F. P. Lubyanovskiy. These texts reflect pursuance of Russian self-identity on the basis of comparison with Western Europe, in particular, with Germany. The Russian authors focus on culturespecific elements of the represented locuses. Cleanness, comfort, space limitation and closeness should also be mentioned as characteristics of the German urban chronotopos. The urban locus is represented from two points of view: as a space of cultural artifacts and as an anthropic space of citizens. The second aspect is important for N. M. Karamzin and F. P. Lubyanovskiy’s sentimentalistic texts but can hardly be found in works by V. N. Zinov'ev and D. I. Fonvizin. The urban descriptions in sentimentalists’ travelogues are more voluminous, filled with figures of speech, different historic and contemporaneous realia.
About the Author
S. S. Zhdanov
Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
10, Plakhotnogo St., Novosibirsk, 630108
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Zhdanov S.S. THE IMAGEIS OF GERMAN CITIES IN RUSSIAN TRAVELOGUES AT THE TURN OF XIX CENTURY. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2017;(2):189-194. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2017-2-189-194
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