PASTERNAK'S CITY OF YURYATIN: GEOGRAPHY, SEMIOTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF NOVELISTIC IMAGE

Abashev V. V.

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The article analyses the correlation between symbolic and mimetic components in the description of Yuryatin in the novel «Doctor Zhivago» by Boris Pasternak. Perm is defined as the geographical prototype for the fictional town and the transformation of the real city into literary image is traced. Also the attention is given to pragmatic relations of locus and text. It is displayed how novelistic reality becomes the object of socio-cultural and marketing strategies, how Yuryatin enters the symbolic reality of contemporary Perm.

Keywords: Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago", semiotics, literary text pragmatics

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Issue: 8, 2010

Series of issue: Issue 8

Rubric: Poetics of Literature

Pages: 115 — 121

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