“Fascinating Geography”: the Typology of Geographical Images’ Construction in Ukrainian and English “High Road Novels” of the 1st half of the 19th century

Authors

  • Денис Чик Berdyansk State Pedagogical University

Keywords:

space, novel, geographical topos, fictitious topos, the image, symbol

Abstract

The article deals with the typology of the spatial relationships between geographic objects in the novels The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England by J. Morier, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Ch. Dickens, The Life and Adventures... of Stolbikov... by H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Dead Souls by N. Gogol. It also analyzes the impact of national and ethnic factors in the deformation of the real geographical or fictitious topoi. The modeling of spatial relationships between geographic features in the novels corresponds to the spatial world of the characters. “Imaginary” space was constructed in all the pieces of fiction, in spite of the existence of real place names (H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko, J. Morier, Ch. Dickens) or symbolic markers (N. Gogol, Ch. Dickens). For a complete reproduction of mental and emotional states of the characters and their national and mental characteristics the English and Ukrainian writers often use the intentional deformations of geographic space, filling its content with extrinsic symbolic meaning.

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Published

2016-01-25

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Чик, Д. (2016). “Fascinating Geography”: the Typology of Geographical Images’ Construction in Ukrainian and English “High Road Novels” of the 1st half of the 19th century. Studia Rossica Gedanensia, 307–319. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SRG/article/view/6693

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