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Троллоп и славянский мир: знакомство на расстоянии
Trollope and the Slavic world: a distant acquaintance

Author(s): Varvara A. Byachkova, Boris Proskurnin
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Trollope; Prague; foreign culture; “otherness”; Slavs; Jews

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the “otherness” in A. Trollope’s “Nina Balakka”. The representations of European culture of 19th century Prague is under analysis. Trol-lope mixes the British and European culture to arrange a “distance game” between the reader and the characters. Discovering Prague with its cultural, historical and linguistic peculiarities reader allows himself to feel the collision of the novel more acutelyand to sympathize with the characters more.

  • Issue Year: 13/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-143
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian