Imagological Method in Literary and Cultural Research

Imagological Method in Literary and Cultural Research (by Alexandra Kozlova). The categories of otherness and strangeness, mainly expressed in terms of impression of a different people’s culture, language, and mentality shown in another people’s literature, are among the most actual problems of modern literary studies, specifically of comparativistics. Perception of one culture by another gives an idea of a different people or country, which later constitutes a well-defined image. The image can more or less correspond to reality or can essentially differ from it. Formation of the image is a rather long-term process influenced by a lot of different and unexpected factors.