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Russian literary landscape. Between nature and history

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-6-192-203

Abstract

The article deals with the specifics of a Russian literary landscape’s construction as a system of values organized in a particular way. It allows answering the question what is good and what is beauty in the life context relevant to a human being. In this regard, special attention is paid to various descriptions. They allow not only to describe and individualize the contemplated natural forms like meadows, fields, lakes and forests, but also to understand, realize and evaluate those familiar marks of the central Russia’s landscape in connection with some axiological concepts significant for a human being, such as God, life, freedom, liberty, art, happiness, or virtue, as a historically dynamic system of values. In that sense, a literary landscape is more than a recognizable image of a place; it is also a “focus of the world-like-history”.

About the Author

A. E. Bochkarev
HSE University
Russian Federation

Andrey E. Bochkarev, Dr. of Sci. (Philology), associate professor

bld. 25/12, Bolshaja Pecherskaja St., Nizhny Novgorod, 603155



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Bochkarev A.E. Russian literary landscape. Between nature and history. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2022;(6 (2)):192-203. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-6-192-203

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