Philology, pedagogy, and psychology

2014 Issue №8

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East on the “mental map” of 18th century English essayists: The imagological aspect

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118-124

Abstract

This article attempts to identify the dominant oriental hetero-images of the eighteenth-century English essays. It deals with the imagological structures of the oriental essay, by means of which the author outlines the main oriental constructs on the Englishmen’s «mental map» as artistic methods of opening up the literary space of the era.

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