Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Feb 2018)

RECEPTION OF THE EUROPEAN CITY IN THE PROSE BY E.D. AIPIN (CONCERNING THE URBAN CODE OF THE KHANTY LITERATURE)

  • Elena Viktorovna Kosintseva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2017-4-145-159
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 145 – 159

Abstract

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Purpose. The article is devoted to the issue of the urban text, being quite topical in the modern Finno-Ugric philology. The subject of analysis is the reception of the European topos in the works by a leading Khanty writer E.D. Aipin. The author aims to reveal the formation of the urban code in the Khanty literature as based on the example of the works by E.D. Aipin. Method or methodology of the work. The basis of the research are the historical-cultural and comparative methods, as well as modern approaches to a selective sample analysis of a literary text. Results. The results of the work lie in the fact that the author interprets the processes of formation of the urban code in the writer’s work of art as well as in national literature of the Khanty people. The research confirms a feature of E.D. Aipin’s idiostyle that was revealed earlier. The author claims the approach that the Khanty writer selected, i.e. the view at a European city through the eyes of a traveler, quite harmoniously represents both the topos and process of metatext formation in the literary work. Field of practical application of the results. The results of the research can be applied in the field of literary and interdisciplinary humanitarian studies.

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