Factual reflection of urban space in William Dean Howells's short prose
| Autor | Natalia L. Fesyanova - Ekaterina A. Khuzina |
| Cargo | Kazan Federal University, Naberezhnye Chelny Institute e-mail: birujza@yandex.ru tel. 89270465157. - Kazan Federal University, Naberezhnye Chelny Institute. |
| Páginas | 169-177 |
Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito
Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
V. 8 - Nº 04 - Ano 2019 – Special Edition
ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index
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FACTUAL REFLECTION OF URBAN SPACE IN WILLIAM DEAN
HOWELLS'S SHORT PROSE
Natalia L. Fesyanova1
Ekaterina A. Khuzina2
Abstract: American writer William
Dean Howells led an intensive search for
artistic means to represent reality
throughout his creative journey. His
creative method was characterized by an
acute sensation of the world's objectivity
and the understanding of art as a special
language. In this article, various types of
art (landscape, music) are examined by
which the writer created a factographic
reflection of the urban space that
determined the artistic specifics of his
works. The theme of the city and the
motive of the road in W. D. Howells
creative destiny became fundamental
ones and were reflected in his small
prose. The studied texts of the American
writer focused the attention on the inner
world and the feelings of the author-
narrator. He has a phenomenal memory
that helps to save not only the
experienced events, but also the
emotional fabric of his wanderings in
1 Kazan Federal University, Naberezhnye Chelny Institute e-mail: birujza@yandex.ru tel.
89270465157.
2 Kazan Federal University, Naberezhnye Chelny Institute.
detail. The urban pictures conveyed by
W.D. Howells are as detailed as possible,
demonstrate both the author's picture of
the world and the specific norms of the
urban space of the XIXth century. In the
stories the writer shows such power of
the urban environment, which adversely
affects the development of urban culture,
not only ecological but also
psychological pollution occurs, the break
with the surrounding reality and the
construction of an artificial world. Thus,
it allowed the author to combine
documentality and artistic
generalizations, confirming everything
with specific names, titles, and events.
Throughout the narrative in the small
prose by W. D. Howells, the idea of the
organic development of small towns and
the existence in harmony with the
surrounding natural environment is the
main one, which is of enormous
importance for the modern world. An
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