Open AccessTHE IMAGEIS OF GERMAN CITIES IN RUSSIAN TRAVELOGUES AT THE TURN OF XIX CENTURY
Author(s) -
Sergey S. Zhdanov
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
vestnik kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2078-8983
pISSN - 2078-8975
DOI - 10.21603/2078-8975-2017-2-189-194
Subject(s) - german , closeness , space (punctuation) , history , realia , focus (optics) , identity (music) , linguistics , aesthetics , art , archaeology , philosophy , mathematics , optics , mathematical analysis , physics
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.