Cultural Ecology and Natural Environment Ecology in the Andrei Bitov’s Novel Pushkin Hous
Abstract
The paper analyses a chapter called Father’s Father from the Andrei Bitov’s novel Pushkin House – an example of ecological discourse in Russian fiction literature. The provided literary analysis of the fictional text serves as a basis for pedagogical text interpretation useful in the literary courses. Ecological problems presented in the novel are evaluated as resulting from social changes that took place after the establishment of the Soviet power. The novel juxtaposes natural ecology and cultural ecology as both result from consumer (uncritical, exploiting) attitude towards nature/culture and (un)conscious effort to eliminate natural hierarchy. The paper interprets the text by decoding its individual elements on the intertextual and metatextual levels. It also analyses selected elements of the text poetics, including the chronotope of the text, and decodes the typology of characters and its meaning.
Keywords
ecology; generation; generational conflict; hierarchy; consumer; culture; literature; museum; technological progress; environmental education
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Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica Slovakia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7285-007X
mgr. Martin Lizoň, PhD. – works at the Department of Slavic Languages at the Faculty of Arts of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. He provides linguistic training for students of Russian language and culture and for future teachers of Russian language and culture. He also teaches courses related to his academic research – 20th–21st Century Russian Literature, 20th–21st History of Russia, Russia in Cinematography, History of Russia in Paintings and Visual Arts Methodology. His research focuses on contemporary Russian literature and culture, on methodology of culturally-oriented didactics of Russian language and Russian history of the second half of the 20th century. His literary research deals with literary interpretation of social and political transformations of Russia, but also with film adaptations of literary texts.
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