Issue 1 (70)
| SEMIOTIC MATRIX OF THE 19th CENTURY FACTORY CITY: MANCHESTER, IVANOVO-VOSNESENSK AND LODZ | |||
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| Year | 2021 | Number | 1(70) |
| Pages | 89-96 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 82(47+438) | BBK | 83.3(2Đîń+4Ďîë) |
| Authors | Timofeev Mikhail Yu. |
Topic | SEMIOTICS OF THE CITY IN LITERARY TEXTS |
| Summary | The article is devoted to the formation of an industrial urban narrative in the 19th century literature. Changes in the urban environment as a result of the industrial revolution presupposed creation of a new figurative language, which could be used to describe industrial centers. This concerned the portrayal of social changes and their context. The main antithesis of industrial loci is not the patriarchal city, but the natural environment or the countryside, changing as a result of expansion of a growing number of factories and plants. One of the most rapidly developing spheres of capitalist production in the 18th–19th centuries was the textile industry. In the middle of the 19th century, Manchester became a kind of benchmark for textile centers in different European countries. As an example of the depiction of industrial loci, the author considers texts about two “Manchesters” of the Russian Empire — the village of Ivanovo (since 1871, the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk) and the Polish city of Lodz. In the first case, numerous essays, stories and poems are the basis used to form the local text. In the second case, it is the famous V. Reymont’s novel “The Promised Land”. The semiotic analysis is applied to the urban environment and landscape, the auditory and olfactory characteristics of typical industrial cities. | ||
| Keywords | city semiotics, urban text, factory city, “local text”, semiotic matrix of the city | ||
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