Title of the article:

DIALOGUE OF CULTURES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN LITERARY TRAVEL

Author(s):

O. A. Zapeka

Zh. A. Beresneva

Information about the author/authors

Oksana A. Zapeka — PhD in Philosophy, A. N. Kosygin Russian State University, Institute of Slavic Culture, Khibinsky pr., 6, 129337 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: zana5@yandex.ru

Zhanna A. Beresneva — Associate Professor, A. N. Kosygin Russian State University, Institute of Slavic Culture, Khibinsky pr., 6, 129337 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: zhanna-beresneva@yandex.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2019

Volume

Vol. 54

Pages

pp. 35–42

Received

October 07, 2019

Date of publication

December 28, 2019

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71(2) + 83.3(2Рос=Рус)

Abstract

There is always an ongoing dialogue between cultures, regardless of their locations as well as time of emergence. Each culture of the past is an actor of this process gradually gaining new insights in its meanings a little more every time. Dialogue is a culture`s “nature” of a kind which is inherently dialogical and polyphonic. The genre of travel prose, traditional for the Russian literature, is illustrative of this original vision of cultures` dialogue. Here dialogue is a rather particular form reflecting a work`s literary conception underlying its generic specifics on the one hand and semantic context — on the other. In terms of the Russian literary travel the dialogue of cultures is performed through the levels of perception of the very path building the narrative and the plotline. On the whole the Russian literature conceives the cultures` dialogue as the path — predestination, predetermination, movement: this is a lyrical theme, plotline and means of artistic expression all in one. When it comes to medieval Russian pilgrimages, the dialogue of cultures is carried out on a level of interaction between God and man, where Holy land acts as a cultural ideal and the path itself — as a destiny, predetermined by God so that the actual impressions during the travel are secondary. Conversely we see that cultural dialogue is based on the so-called horizontal projection, real-time impressions in the beginning of the 18th century. Second half of the 19th – early 20th cs. is marked by a new vision of the cultures` dialogue via literary travel perceived as an endless space for man`s understanding of the world and himself. This tendency emerges in critical realism and goes on to unfold within symbolism with his extreme sensuality and con-science of culture.

Keywords

literary travel, dialogue of cultures, journey, A. S. Pushkin, I. А. Goncharov, А. Bely, path, perception.

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