“This Street is Also Ours”: Familiar and Alien in Russian Authors’ American Travelogues
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- УДК / UDK: 82-821
- DOI:
10.22455/2541-7894-2017-3-307-324
- Abstract:
The article studies Soviet writers’ complex attitude to the USA reflected in theirThe article studies Soviet writers’ complex attitude to the USA reflected in theirAmerican travelogues of the 1920–1930s, as well as the peculiar superimposition ofboth countries in their texts. It analyzes how the familiar realities serve as an instrumentfor describing foreign phenomena, as well as the motifs of paradoxical recognitionand metaphorical appropriation of one’s own in a foreign country, contrasted withthe motifs of distinctively alien phenomena.
- Keywords: American text, travelogue, svoe/chuzhoe, Esenin, Mayakovsky, Ilf, Petrov, Pilniak.
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