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The Image of Yekaterinburg in the Contemporary Autobiographical Prose of the Urals
| Τίτλος: | The Image of Yekaterinburg in the Contemporary Autobiographical Prose of the Urals |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Kovalenko, Lydia Anatolyevna |
| Πηγή: | Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, Vol 19, Iss 2(163), Pp 110-119 (2017) Izvestia. Ural Federal University Journal. Series 2. Humanities and Arts; Том 19, № 2(163); 110-119 Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2. Гуманитарные науки; Том 19, № 2(163); 110-119 |
| Στοιχεία εκδότη: | Ural Federal University, 2017. |
| Έτος έκδοσης: | 2017 |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | модель и способы изображения города, Language and Literature, современная литература Урала, автобиографическое повествование, Свердловск-Екатеринбург, History (General) and history of Europe, contemporary literature in the Urals, autobiographical narrative, Sverdlovsk / Yekaterinburg, model and methods of city representation |
| Περιγραφή: | This article explores the image of Sverdlovsk / Yekaterinburg as presented in the contemporary autobiographical prose of the Urals. Referring to a number of memoir and autobiographic texts (memoirs, essays, stories, and short stories), the author illustrates the image of the city in several stages — from drawing of “a topographic layout” to filling it with realistic historical content and the ultimate universalisation of the image. According to the author, there are a number of means to represent the image of the city, namely, marking the important loci, the creation of panoramic images, the drawing of routes, and the introduction of architectural comments and stories of the city’s everyday life — such “formula units” are viewed as the main techniques for representing the image of the city. The author concludes that: 1) both formally and informally recognised landmarks can be found on the “literary maps” drawn by autobiographers; 2) historical material that passes through the filter of a personal story is transformed into lyrical narratives of the city’s everyday life in different years; 3) the authors use variations of the image of Sverdlovsk / Yekaterinburg that are based on established ideas of the city (“Yekaterinburg before the revolution of 1917”, “a hardworking city”, “an industrial giant”, etc.); 4) the authors present a view of their life journey and therefore replace the historically true picture with a mythological tale of “the city of the author’s childhood and adolescence” as they experienced it over and over again in the old days — this approach is seen as a mandatory component of the autobiographical narratives in question. |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: | Article Other literature type |
| ISSN: | 2227-2283 |
| DOI: | 10.15826/izv2.2017.19.2.028 |
| Σύνδεσμος πρόσβασης: | https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2462/2180 https://doaj.org/article/fdc336d2fd2644d89700fc9ee4ca09a4 https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2462 https://core.ac.uk/display/84765498 https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/2462 |
| Rights: | CC BY NC |
| Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bc5548d9a19add4b5d8ed865eae6dd6e |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 22272283 |
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| DOI: | 10.15826/izv2.2017.19.2.028 |