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Name: «Both of us are contemporaries, fellow-countrymen, and friends for about forty years»: the features of the poetics of N. M. Karamzin’s letters to I. I. Dmitriyev

Authors: T. B. Frik

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper is devoted to considering N. M. Karamzin’s letters to I. I. Dmitriyev in the aspect of their poetics. Serving as the basis for the research was the understanding of the friendly literary letter as a hybrid genre combining factual and fictional planes. Differentiated as text-building features of the analyzed epistolary complex are: motive of unity and compatibility of vital, emotional and moral experience of the participants of the correspondence; motive of the native land as an ideal topos of friendship; motive of aging. Determined are the peculiar features of the images of the author and addressee at different periods of their correspondence. The conclusion is drawn that the epistolary complex under consideration represents a special literary and cultural phenomenon, is the reflection of the major aspects of N. M. Karamzin’s world outlook, includes original elements of his poetics and an esthetics, and shows their dynamics depending on the writer’s vital and creative trajectory.

Keywords: n. m. karamzin, i. i. dmitriyev, epistolary, poetics, friendly literary letter

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