Images of the Little Russian space in Letters from Little Russia by Aleksey Levshin
Journal: Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Year: 2024

The article deals with the representation of images of the Little Russian space in Aleksey Levshin's Letters from Little Russia, characterized by significant heterogeneity. This representation is based on a combination of sentimentalist and rational-enlightenment narratives, and includes several chronotopes: an idyllic-pastoral chronotope marked by cyclic time, attractiveness, coziness, cleanliness, miniaturization, abundance and blessedness and actualized primarily in rustic loci; the Old Russi