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Chinese Poems by N. S. Gumilev: Reminiscences from Theophile Gautier
- Authors: Osminina E.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 12(906) (2025)
- Pages: 137-143
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/365889
- ID: 365889
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Abstract
The purpose of the study is to identify reminiscences from T. Gautier’s poetry and prose in N. S. Gumilyov’s poems dedicated to China. The article uses structural verse analysis (to identify the themes, motifs, and images of the poems) and comparative analysis (to compare the poems). The research material includes N. S. Gumilyov’s poems: "I Believed, I Thought...", "The Chinese Girl", the cycle "The Porcelain Pavilion", and the poem "Two Dreams". As a result of the research, the above-mentioned works revealed images and epithets that are reminiscences from the poem "Chinoiserie" and the short story "Le Рavillon sur l’eau" by T.Gautier: a Chinese girl, a gazebo (pavilion) on the water, birds, flowers, porcelain, red and yellow, – and the motif of stylization, the "toyiness" of China, which also comes from T. Gautier.
About the authors
Elena Anatolievna Osminina
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: eleosminina@mail.ru
Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Communication Technology
Russian FederationReferences
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