Tautos poetika Nikolajaus Karamzino tekstuose (1787-1803 m.) ; Поэтика нации в текстах Николая Карамзина (1787-1803 г.) ; The Poetics of the Nation in Nikolay Karamzin's Texts (1787-1803 m.)

Abstract

The dissertation is devoted to the question how the nation is "imagined" in Nikolaj Karamzin's works of the small genre. Unlike the existing tradition of researches of the problematics of the nation in Karamzin's works, in this doctoral thesis attention is focused not on the set of his ideas, or on analysis of the concept of the nation, but on the poetics of the nation his texts on their own. The main elements of the poetics of the nation are considered to be space, time and emotions, whose meanings are systematically analyzed in Karamzin's panegyric, political and prose fiction texts. Such study perspective allows revealing a connection between aesthetic dimension of the text and his political "imagination". It is shown that the meaning of the elements of the poetics of the nation is defined through the categories of the sublime and the beautiful (understood basing on Edmund Burke's aesthetics) that, in turn, are related to realistic and utopian tendency in Karamzin's political "imagination". Besides, the work highlights the peculiarities of the interrelation between the poetics of the nation and the empire in his texts. It has an interdisciplinary character, because it draws on different approaches applied in various areas of science (history of ideas and emotions, aesthetics, political theory) directly or indirectly related to analysis of the problematics of the nation. The dissertation uses the constructivist approach and structural method of analysis.