Occidentalism in Russian Travel Literature in the 18th Century: Example of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
| Název práce v češtině: | |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Occidentalism in Russian Travel Literature in the 18th Century: Example of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin |
| Klíčová slova: | Travel, Travel literature, Russian writers, borders, frontier, landscape, city image, identity, cultural luggage, Western Europe, backwardness, modernity |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Travel, Travel literature, Russian writers, borders, frontier, landscape, city image, identity, cultural luggage, Western Europe, backwardness, modernity |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2011/2012 |
| Typ práce: | diplomová práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav světových dějin (21-USD) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | prof. Dr. phil. Pavel Himl |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 14.05.2012 |
| Datum zadání: | 14.05.2012 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | zatím neschvalováno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 09.01.2013 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 12.09.2013 09:00 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 31.07.2013 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 12.09.2013 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | PhDr. Martina Power, Ph.D. |
| Péter Erdösi | |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| The MA thesis examines the ways in which Russian identity was articulated in the “long” nineteenth century through the medium of travel writing.
The “travelers” in their journeys are identified and specified in relation to the meaning of the “other”, the “foreign”. The travelers are conveying with them in the new lands they visit their cultural heritage which is deeply rooted in their collective unconscious. This "imported" cultural heritage is the subject of the study and through literature, as undoubtedly it is part of a broader communication process, indicating the participation of individuals in a particular cultural and social life. Travel literature as the mean of study – memoirs, letters, impressions, travelogues – is a powerful tool to promote understanding of the self and the other. Through the study of primary sources, the diaries of three Russian writers narrating about their visits to Western Europe, this thesis targets to contribute to a wider cultural comprehension by creating awareness, appreciating the diversity of cultures and diverse lifestyles. The main facts about the writers chosen and their narratives is that they are writers of various forms of literary activity – Karamzin, historian & fiction writer / Herzen, pro-Western social & political thinker & writer / Dostoevskii imaginative – psychological novelist. The chosen authors lived in different phases of the long 19th century – follow a linear stream of social changes – from bureaucratic autocracy (early 19th c.), attempt of elite modernization (1825) to abolition of serfdom (1861). In addition all authors have different political orientation – Herzen, libertarian socialism / Dostoevskii – conservative nationalism. Sources: Nikolay Karamzin: Letters of a Russian Traveller, based on the writer’s travels in the German states, Switzerland, France and England between 1789-1790 Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen: Letters from France and Italy, which relates to the period 1847-1851 from his travels to France and Italy Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, which deals predominantly with the author’s visit to France and England in 1862 |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
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