W. S. Maugham’s “On a Chinese Screen” – the Gallery of National Characters
- Authors: Bulashova N.M.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Moscow Pedagogical State University
- St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
- Issue: No 1(869) (2023)
- Pages: 134-140
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/353738
- ID: 353738
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The article is dedicated to W. S. Maugham’s book “On a Chinese Screen” about his stay in China. The text is the combination of non-fiction literature and fiction. The poetics of the title as well as the gallery of national characters - representatives of different social layers of Western and Eastern civilizations - are analyzed in the article. The author marked the disappearance of something native in modern for him China. The main motives are the following: way, road; theatricality; loneliness of white man; impossibility to understand each other.
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Nataliia Mikhailovna Bulashova
Moscow Pedagogical State University; St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
Author for correspondence.
Email: nbulashova@yandex.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor at the Department of World Literature, Moscow Pedagogical State University; Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic Philology, St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
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