“Bavaria, which I will never forget”: to the image of German space in “Travel letters from England, Germany and France” by Nikolay Gretch
The paper deals with images of Bavarian space based on the travelogue “Travel letters from England, Germany and France” by Nikolay Gretch from the imagological and semiotic points of view. The representation of the metropolitan and provincial imagery of Bavaria is analyzed. Its liminality, fixed in Gretch’s text, is revealed, i. e. intermediate position between North and South. A connection is ...
The image of Ekaterinoslav as an unrealized potentiality in Russian travelogues of the late 18th — 19th centuries
... Perevoshchikov, Vasily M. Sidorov, Pavel I. Sumarokov, Gerasim T. Khokhlov, Alexander V. Khrapovitsky, and Pavel I. Shalikov). The study aims to provide an analytical description of the main spatial characteristics shaping the city’s image within a semiotic—imagological framework. The representation of Ekaterinoslav is shown to be constructed primarily through the opposition between ‘the space of a glorious past’ and ‘the space of an inglorious present’. Correspondingly, the motif of unrealized potential ...
