IMAGE OF THE NORTH IN THE JOURNALISM OF JACK LONDON

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of the image of the North in the journalism of Jack London. On the material of seven newspaper-journalistic publications of the American writer, which are essays (feature stories), revealed are thematic dominants, features of style, the arsenal of the artistic means, utilized by the author, determined is the role of the author in the creation of the image of the North that unites the works. As a result of the conducted investigations, the author comes to the conclusion that the image of the North is revealed in the essays as historically real and metaphorical space, and the connection of publicist and descriptive-metaphorical vision causes the special features of formation of the artistic style of the writer.