CITY AS A RELATED MOTIVE IN KARAMZIN’S TRAVELOGUE "LETTERS OF A RUSSIAN TRAVELLER" |
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| 2022 |
| scientific article | 82 | ||
| 95-102 | Н.М. Карамзин, «Письма русского путешественника», Б.В. Томашевский, город, N.M. Karamzin, "Letters of a Russian Traveller", B.V. Tomashevsky, city |
| The article deals with the principles of depicting European cities in N.M. Karamzin's travelogue "Letters of a Russian Traveller". As the basic approach is used B.V. Tomashevskiy's theory of motif according to which a city can be considered in Karamzin's work as a connected motif. The article shows, how during realization of this motif objective and subjective principles are combined and interact. The author reveals that the historical and cultural facts, the geographical information belong to the objective element while the author's comments to these realities, the emphasis upon the personalities of the philosophers who live in the city the comparison of the European city and its way of life with the Russian traditions belong to the subjective one. |
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