Onomastic Means of Creating an Artistic Image of the City in Olga Pressitch’s Poetry Cover Image

Ономастичні засоби творення художнього образу міста у ліриці Ольги Пресіч
Onomastic Means of Creating an Artistic Image of the City in Olga Pressitch’s Poetry

Author(s): Irina Nakashidze
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Local History / Microhistory, Lexis, Ukrainian Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, Migration Studies
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: emigration poetry; the image of the city; topos; urbanonym

Summary/Abstract: In the article onomastic means of creating an artistic image of the city are investigated in the work of Olga Pressitch, an Ukrainian-Canadian poet. There is determined, that central city in her creativity is the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv. This is typical for emigration poetry as a manifestation of self-identity. The image of the city is portrayed primarily through toponymic names of streets, buildings and so on. It is revealed that in Olga Pressitch’s lyrics world and place names are also presented, that helps to demolish the image of the motherland into the global context.

  • Issue Year: 15/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 346-352
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English, Ukrainian
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