Heritage of Centuries | 2015 | No. 2 (2) | Elena V. Somova & Natalia V. Svitenko | Русский
The Caucasus as the Topos of Russian Literature: Typology of Literary Journeys (Through the Pages of Russian Poetry and Fiction of the 19th – 20th Centuries)
© Elena V. Somova
Cand. Sci. (National Literature), Assoc. Prof., Department of the History of Russian Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Kuban State University
ist_rus_lit@mail.ru
© Natalia V. Svitenko
Cand. Sci. (National Literature), Assoc. Prof., Department of the History of Russian Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Kuban State University
svitenko@list.ru
UDC 82-94
Аbstract: The review of poetry and fiction of the 19-th – 20-th centuries made it possible to point out main typological models of literary journeys to the Caucasus and define specification to each of them: “excursion”, “pilgrimage”, “escape”. The Caucasus is the main romantic topos of Russian literature, a place of metaphysical registration of poets. It determines the necessity of returning there, self-substitution of the author or a character of a classical Caucasian plot, a nostalgic reader`s journey to “the country of memories”.
Keywords: the Caucasus, romantic topos of Russian literature, literature-centered consciousness, typological models of literary journeys, author`s and character`s self- realisation in a role, metaphysical continuum.
Article information: Received on July 28, 2015, signed by the print, volume 2 / 2015 on September 29, 2015, published on September 30, 2015.
Full bibliographic reference to the article: Somova, E. V., and Svitenko, N. V., Kavkaz kak topos russkoy literatury: tipologiya literaturnykh puteshestviy (po stranitsam otechestvennoy poezii i belletristiki XX – XXI vekov) (The Caucasus as the Topos of Russian Literature: Typology of Literary Journeys (Through the Pages of Russian Poetry and Fiction of the 19th – 20th Centuries), Naslediye Vekov, 2015, no. 2. pp. 31-37. http://old.heritage-magazine.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015_2_Somova_Svitenko.pdf . Accessed Month DD, YYYY.
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