THE IMAGE OF THE URALS IN TRAVEL LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV: IMPRESSIONS AND CREATIVE PROJECTIONS
This article is devoted to the dynamics of the Urals themes in works by Chekhov. The main evidence of the writer’s Ural experience is letters which he wrote during his three trips along the Urals (in 1890, 1901 and 1902). The first and most detailed cycle of the Ural letters is connected with Chekho...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7f86bc79490b464499ff2fab44a17dec 2023-05-15T18:09:15+02:00 THE IMAGE OF THE URALS IN TRAVEL LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV: IMPRESSIONS AND CREATIVE PROJECTIONS Елена Георгиевна Власова (Elena G. Vlasova) 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/7f86bc79490b464499ff2fab44a17dec EN RU eng rus Perm State University http://press.psu.ru/index.php/philology/article/view/1106 https://doaj.org/toc/2073-6681 2073-6681 https://doaj.org/article/7f86bc79490b464499ff2fab44a17dec Vestnik Permskogo universiteta: Rossijskaâ i zarubežnaâ filologiâ, Vol 0, Iss 1 (2017) А. П.Чехов эпистолярный травелог демифологизация пространства образ Урала образ уральца граница Европы и Азии Language and Literature P article 2017 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T13:28:32Z This article is devoted to the dynamics of the Urals themes in works by Chekhov. The main evidence of the writer’s Ural experience is letters which he wrote during his three trips along the Urals (in 1890, 1901 and 1902). The first and most detailed cycle of the Ural letters is connected with Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin. Describing Ural space in this cycle of letters, Chekhov often applies a device of the ironic use of literary formulas, established in the previous descriptions of the Urals. In subsequent cycles of the Ural letters the problem of exact description of external impressions comes to the fore. The image of the Urals recreated in Chekhov's letters is curious and significant as a result of direct emotional experience of the travel space. It does not claim to have completeness of description or conceptuality of assessment, though, while fixing some particular features of the seen, the letters give them the quality of expressive details, snatched from the flow of impressions as the most important emotional and cognitive experience. This experience has accumulated the writer’s great creative energy: the state of mind he had on the road, reinforced by emotional expressiveness of epistolary words, repeatedly echoes in his literary work. In particular, Chekhov’s letters clarify the circumstances of the Perm origin of the three sisters’ town, as well as the Urals allusions to the factory image in “Practice Case”. Generally, Chekhov's Ural letters are a vivid example of such a variety of travel literature as an epistolary travelogue. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Three Sisters ENVELOPE(-68.470,-68.470,-71.441,-71.441) |
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This article is devoted to the dynamics of the Urals themes in works by Chekhov. The main evidence of the writer’s Ural experience is letters which he wrote during his three trips along the Urals (in 1890, 1901 and 1902). The first and most detailed cycle of the Ural letters is connected with Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin. Describing Ural space in this cycle of letters, Chekhov often applies a device of the ironic use of literary formulas, established in the previous descriptions of the Urals. In subsequent cycles of the Ural letters the problem of exact description of external impressions comes to the fore. The image of the Urals recreated in Chekhov's letters is curious and significant as a result of direct emotional experience of the travel space. It does not claim to have completeness of description or conceptuality of assessment, though, while fixing some particular features of the seen, the letters give them the quality of expressive details, snatched from the flow of impressions as the most important emotional and cognitive experience. This experience has accumulated the writer’s great creative energy: the state of mind he had on the road, reinforced by emotional expressiveness of epistolary words, repeatedly echoes in his literary work. In particular, Chekhov’s letters clarify the circumstances of the Perm origin of the three sisters’ town, as well as the Urals allusions to the factory image in “Practice Case”. Generally, Chekhov's Ural letters are a vivid example of such a variety of travel literature as an epistolary travelogue. |
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THE IMAGE OF THE URALS IN TRAVEL LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV: IMPRESSIONS AND CREATIVE PROJECTIONS |
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THE IMAGE OF THE URALS IN TRAVEL LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV: IMPRESSIONS AND CREATIVE PROJECTIONS |
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THE IMAGE OF THE URALS IN TRAVEL LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV: IMPRESSIONS AND CREATIVE PROJECTIONS |
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