“Myth of a Gypsy Woman” as the Quintessence of the Dream of Freedom in the Works by A.S. Pushkin and P. Merimee

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10.2991/icelaic-15.2016.164How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gypsy culture; Gypsy woman character; cultural and historical prerequisites; romantic heroine; conflict; myth of a Gypsy woman

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of how the character of a Gypsy woman appears in the creative work of A.S. Pushkin and P. Merimee. The article reveals the impact of Gypsy culture on poets and writers of the 19th century through the analysis of cultural and historical prerequisites of the appearance of this character in the works of authors belonging to different literary schools and temporal coordinates. The purpose of this study is an analysis of peculiar Gypsy women characters of 19th century literature – those of Zemfira and Carmen.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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