The Turkish world in Russian literature of the 19th century
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-81-3-229-235
Abstract
The article analyzes the representation of Turkey and the Turkish East in Russian literature of the 19th century and considers various artistic strategies for depicting the Turkish world based on the texts of A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov, N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy and V. M. Garshin. The dominant method of studying this problem is the hermeneutic analysis. The concepts of “other” / “alien” are at the center of the study, inextricably linked with the concept of “one’s own”. The binary opposition “ours”–“theirs” is the subject and, at the same time, the means of analyzing in many research practices. Herefore, the analysis of the problem of the Turkish “other” / “alien” in the artistic world of 19th-century Russian literature is carried out in the imagological and mythopoetic discourse. The focus is on the evolution from romantic exotization to realistic and ethnographic approaches, as well as the functioning of the image of Turkey as a mirror of national self-awareness. Russian literary criticism has few works on the understanding of the Turkish element perception in Russian literary classics. For obvious reasons, much more works on this topic are written by Oriental historians who study the specifics of state and cultural relations between Russia and Turkey at different stages of their historical development. The perspective of the topic is to study the specifics of the “Turkish element” perception in Russian fiction of the 19th century in the works by writers belonging to the second, non-classical series.
About the Authors
K. Unal
Birsk Branch of Ufa University of Science and Technology
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Unal Kerami, Master student,
10 Intrenatsionalnaya Str., Birsk, 452453
I. Sh. Yunusov
Birsk Branch of Ufa University of Science and Technology
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yunusov Ildar Shaykhenurovich, Doctor of Philology, Professor,
10 Intrenatsionalnaya Str., Birsk, 452453
F. V. Yunusova
Birsk Branch of Ufa University of Science and Technology
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yunusova Faniya Vasbirakhmanovna, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor,
10 Intrenatsionalnaya Str., Birsk, 452453
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Unal K., Yunusov I.Sh., Yunusova F.V. The Turkish world in Russian literature of the 19th century. Philology and Culture. 2025;(3):229-235. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2025-81-3-229-235
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