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Name: The motives of voyages and ships in the essay "Belfast" by V. Khodasevich

Authors: Elena Y. Kulikova

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper analyzes the essay where Khodasevich's describes a "journey" through the shipyards of Belfast. Khodasevich conceptualizes his observations in the context of the poetic tradition by referring the reader, predominantly, to Dante's "Divine Comedy". The paper discusses the ways in which the essay juxtaposes the eschatological images of dying ships (the famous Titanic was built in a Belfast shipyard) with the motifs of creativity which Khodasevich associated with Pushkin's "Autumn" and Baudelaire's "Voyage" and "Invitation to a Voyage".

Keywords: the voyage genre, intertext, motif, tradition, essay prose

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