Landscape as a universal component in the narrative art (on the example of a Mordovian story)
Levina Natalia N.,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Associate Professor, Department of Finno-Ugric Literatures, Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia), lev-nataliyan@ya.ru
The proposed article pays attention to the landscape as one of the most important components of a literary work; it analyzes its place and role in the formal and content organization of the creative narrative; it considers the significance and specificity of landscape units in the short stories of authors from Mordovia.
Keywords: landscape; description of nature; artistic narrative; artistic means; multi-functionality.
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