КОНЦЕПТУАЛИЗАЦИЯ МЕСТНОГРАФИЗМА ГРАДОВЕДЧЕСКОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ В.Г. КОРОЛЕНКО
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE LOCAL ASPECT OF V.G. KOROLENKO’S HERITAGE OF URBAN DESCRIPTIONS

Summary/Abstract: The life of V.G. Korolenko was connected with different regions of Russia. His artistic, journalistic, and epistolary heritage reflects his impression from visits to the capital, central cities, and provincial towns. The paper reviews manifestations of the imagery in “urban texts” of the local author from the point of social and literary discourse. V.G. Korolenko is characterized as a “genius of locality”, who artistically created detailed “portraits” and sketches of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Glazov, Simbirsk, and Poltava. The writer also expressed his own view on various toposes of the Volga Region in literature: Nizhny Novgorod, Pavlovo, Gorodets, and Arzamas (“God’s town”). V.G. Korolenko’s literary works devoted to urban description are analyzed using the comparative approach rather than separately: by contrast with the understanding of loci in folklore, as well as works of other writers (I.A. Goncharov, N.N. Zlatovratskii, L.N. Tolstoi, and P.I. Melnikov-Pecherskii) and regional ethnographers (N.P. Antsiferov, S.N. Durylin, N.E. Mednis, etc.). Biographical, sociological, historic-cultural, and linguistic methods are used in the paper for analysis of the author’s literary works in the local aspect.

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