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Kabanova I. V. Английская путевая проза и «Письма из Исландии» Одена и Макниса. Journal Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2005, vol. 5, iss. 1, pp. 165-172. DOI: , EDN:

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Английская путевая проза и «Письма из Исландии» Одена и Макниса

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Kabanova Irina Valeryevna, Saratov State University
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The articie contains а survey of the tradition of travel narratives in English literature from the ХVI century аn well аn of the current critical concepts of the genre of travels. It offers а perspective оп the state of the genre in the English literature of the 1930-s аnd analyzes W.H. Auden and Louis McNiece's «Letters from lceland» (1937) аs а representative text of е period. This travel book happens to be centered around Auden's major poem of the thirties — «А Letter Lordto Вугоn», hence the analysis is focused оn this poem.,

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  1. Отметим попытку возвести жанр к XIV веку, к памяти об эпохе крестовых походов (см.: Zacher Christian. Curiosity аnd Pilgrimage. The Litcrature оf Discovery in Fourteenth-Century England / С. Zacher. Baltimore, 1976). 
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  10. См., например: Dunlop M H. Sixty Miles from Continent. Traveling т the Nineteenth-Century American lnterior / M. H. Dunlop. Westview Press, 1998. 
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  12. Ibid. P. 204. 
  13. «exhausted male-privileged paradigm» (см.: Kaplan, Caren. Questions of Travel. Postmodern Discourses of Displacement / С. Kaplan. Durham ; L., 1996. P. 34).
  14. Ibid. P. 82. 
  15. Fussell Paul. Op. cit. P. 78. 
  16. The Essays, Articles and Reviews оf Evelyn Waugh / Г. by D. Gallagher. L., 1985. Р. 133. 
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  18. Ibid. P. 198. 
Received: 
11.07.2005
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01.10.2005
Available online: 
20.12.2005
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20.12.2005