Issue 2 (59)
| A. N. OSTROVSKY’S ARTISTIC MAPMAKING: CITY | |||
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| Year | 2018 | Number | 2(59) |
| Pages | 78-86 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 82-2 | BBK | 84-6 |
| Authors | Kuptsova Olga N. |
Topic | SELF DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES |
| Summary | The article deals with the artistic map of A. N. Ostrovsky, for whom from the first to the last play Moscow, as the sole capital city, stayed in the center of his map as a playwright (St. Petersburg was practically absent from his drama works). The collision between the static-motion, the old-renovating, the Asian-the European was described by A. N. Ostrovsky via the comparison of “Moscow” and “Zamoskvorechye” (the opposition existed inside the same city and not in the pair Moscow — St. Petersburg), and on the Russian national scale — the “Moscow” (capital) and the “provincial” (peripheral). In the artistic world of the dramatist Zamoskvorechye was not the actual administrative district of Moscow, but rather the “collective”, fictional (often of the fairy tale and the folklore type) ahistoric image of Moscow. In the Volga plays cycle A. N. Ostrovsky created the non-existent cities in the upper reaches of the Volga — the provincial capital Bryahimov and the smaller district center Kalinov. The artificial name of the district center and the precedent setting name of the province capital (Bryahimov was an historical Volga Bulgars' city) had a common Asian component. A. N. Ostrovsky’s artistic mapmaking was implicitly polemical. The “non-existent” St. Petersburg not affecting in any way the general course of the Russian life or the uniformity of the Russian space was the author’s distinctive contribution to the “Petersburg text” of the Russian literature. The “Zamoskvorechye Asia” (which metonymically represented the whole of Moscow) and the “Asian” Volga cities Kalinov and Bryahimov were his arguments in the disputes with the dramatist’s Slavophilic environment. | ||
| Keywords | A. N. Ostrovsky, Russian drama, geopoetics, art cartography, Moscow, Zamoskvorechye, Volga, city | ||
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