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“MOMENTS OF EVERLASTINGNESS”: CONTINUITY OF THE NATURE TOPIC INTERPRETATION IN THE WORKS BY RICHARD JEFFERIES AND EDWARD THOMAS
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Elena Viktorovna Talyzina
Samara State Technical University
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Submitted:
January 10, 2019
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Abstract.
In the article, the influence of the writer of the XIX century Richard Jefferies on the works by the British literary critic and author of non-fiction prose Edward Thomas, who became a poet during the First World War, is analysed. The author considers common to the both writers views on nature and a human’s place in it, which can be called “mystical agnosticism”: despite the disbelief of both the men in the supernatural, nature was a source of spiritual revelations for them; both the writers saw the reflection of the whole long history of the interaction of a human being and nature in the rural landscape. It is shown how the continuity of the views of these two authors is expressed in their works.
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Key words and phrases:
Ричард Джеффрис
Эдвард Томас
тема природы
«сельская» традиция
преемственность
эко-история
Richard Jefferies
Edward Thomas
nature topic
“rural” tradition
continuity
eco-history
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