Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)

Session: Foundations of Historicising Readings

3 articles
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Nikolay Gogogl's "The Government Inspector" comedy (1836): a realistic conception before the Realism

Evgeniy Filonov
This paper reviews the conception of Nikolay Gogogl's "The Government Inspector" comedy. The paper analyzes Gogol's article "St. Petersburg notes of 1836" and Pyotr Vyazemsky's review where he observed audience's comments on the premiere of the play. Comedy edition, which was created in 1836, is considered...
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Visual images in "The House, in Which..." novel by Mariam Petrosyan

Ksenia Overina
This paper examines some aspects of Mariam Petrosyan's "The House, in Which..." novel's poetics and reception. One of the major characteristics of this novel is that it is full of visual images, striking metaphors, memorable descriptions. At the same time, this text contains a lot of gaps, ambiguities....
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English Romanticism: Grounds of Historisizing

Asya Rogova
Perceiving themselves as creators of history and being conscious of the future readers English Romantics sought to understand how to be truthful conveying historical knowledge: to present accentuate differences of existing perceptions of their time or what was really important and due to be remembered....