Article

Name: Gogol’s literary anthropology and Pisemsky’s "ordinary man": an epical image of the world ("Dead souls" and "Turbulent sea").

Authors: Ludmila N. Sinyakova

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The paper is devoted to the problem of the literary anthropology of N.V. Gogol and A.F. Pisemsky in the poem "Dead souls" and in the novel "Turbulent sea". Study is made of Gogol’s "artistic platonism" and Pisemsky’s "negative anthropology" as ways of the anthropological reconstruction of the epical image of the world.

Keywords: literary anthropology, man and the world, man and historical reality, change, development, degradation

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