M. G. Merkulova
MerkulovaMG@mgpu.ru
Moscow City University, Moscow, Russian Federation
England and the Englishmen in the cycle of travel essays “Frigate Pallada” by I. A. Goncharov
Abstract: The article discusses the originality of I. A. Goncharov’screative reception of England and the Englishmenon the material of a cycle of travel essays, which was the result of the writer’s circumnavigation as an interpreter of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Finance also being the secretary of Vice Admiral Yefimiy Putyatin from October 1852 to August 1854 on the military frigate Pallada. The author of the article focuses on the imagological receptive strategies of I. A. Goncharov in the representation of the image of the “stranger”. Under the imagological receptive strategies, it is proposed to understand the dominants of perception and creative embodiment of the image of the “other” (“stranger”) by the writer; the dominants were realized by him in the poetics of a work of art. The result of the study is the general conclusion of the author of the article about the specifics of imagological reception I. A. Goncharov of England and the Englishmen, concluded in the triad of the imagotheme “life-trade”, the imagome “Englishman-machine” and the imagotype “merchant”.
Keywords: imagological receptive strategies, imagotheme, imagome, imagotype, England, Englishmen, I. A. Goncharov, Frigate Pallada.
Paper submitted: December 28, 2022.
For citation: Merkulova M. G. (2023) England and the Englishmen in the cycle of travel essays “Frigate Pallada” by I. A. Goncharov. Russian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 85–91. DOI: 10.57015/issn1998- 5320.2023.17.1.9.
