People in the Arctic: a reflection on “the polar circle quadrature” on the material of contemporary stories and feature articles
Abstract The topic of the article is the problem of exploration of the Arctic and its human potential in sociocultural and linguocultural context. The article contains a brief overview of scientific papers dedicated to fiction related to the Arctic and to polar expeditions. The aim of this article i...
| Published in: | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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IOP Publishing
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012091 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012091/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012091 |
| Summary: | Abstract The topic of the article is the problem of exploration of the Arctic and its human potential in sociocultural and linguocultural context. The article contains a brief overview of scientific papers dedicated to fiction related to the Arctic and to polar expeditions. The aim of this article is to describe the characteristic features and unique traits of the image of a person in the Arctic conditions by means of analyzing the plot chronotope and writer’s individual style of contemporary stories and feature articles related to the Arctic. The analysis of emotion-and-imagery of human existence in the Arctic was done on the material of the stories by Anatoly Laiba, a Russian polar geologist, of the autobiography of Morten Rasch, a scientist from Denmark, of journalistic articles and other sources. Obviously, the image of polar explorers presented in fiction and social-scientific works of the first decades of the 21 st century, as well as in the literary works of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, has traditionally been idealized. The characters are courageous, strong-willed and determined people, true professionals in their field. For them, the quest for “quadrature of the polar circle” is their commitment to their work, to research, their resilience in coping with challenges. The image of a person who lives and works in the Arctic is inseparable from the romanticism of its severe nature. A conclusion is made regarding the instrumentation of descriptive and axiological functions and, first and foremost, of dialogue function of literary convergence in “Arctic literature”. |
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