Open Access“I'm Looking Outside the Window When the Mountains Begin”: the Genre of the Book “A Trip to the Urals” by Elizabeth Polonskaya
Author(s) -
Юлия Сергеевна Подлубнова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1. problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury/izvestiâ uralʹskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. seriâ 1, problemy obrazovaniâ, nauki i kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-7151
pISSN - 2227-2275
DOI - 10.15826/izv1.2021.27.2.035
Subject(s) - industrialisation , originality , spanish civil war , window (computing) , history , travel writing , scale (ratio) , focus (optics) , media studies , art history , political science , sociology , art , literature , law , geography , archaeology , cartography , computer science , world wide web , physics , optics , creativity
The article examines the genre originality of the book “A Trip to the Urals” by E. G. Polonskaya, written as a result of the writer’s business trip to Sverdlovsk and the Ural Region, while working as a reporter for Leningradskaya Pravda in 1926. “A trip to the Urals”, which first came into the focus of close research attention, is perceived a journalistic text created in the era of Soviet construction, reconstruction of factories and cities. EG Polonskaya succeeds in capturing not just the restoration of production after the Civil War, but proceeding to fixing “our achievements”; the scale of her vision in many ways anticipated a new era — industrialization. The article concludes that in terms of genre, the book continued the traditions of travel literature and became the Soviet version of the travel guide, consisting of a compilation of travel notes, a feuilleton and production essays.