East and West Themes in Remizov’s Novel “Sisters of the Cross”

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.138How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sisters of the Cross, the East and the West, culture

Abstract

In Russian literature, the writer Remizov took the role of national thinker and philosopher, and explored the spiritual dimension of Russians in his own creation. He has inherited and carried forward the essence of Russian traditional culture and national spirit, and at the same time, he thought hard about the future development of Russia in his novel “The Sisters of the Cross”. The purpose of this thesis is to study Remizov’s thoughts on the development of Russia in his novel. By means of textual analysis and comparative analysis, this paper explores the intertextuality between the “eastern and western themes” in “The Sisters of the Cross” and other texts and reveals that the writer uses symbolic metaphor to express his dissatisfaction with Peter the Great’s reform, especially referring to the negative influence of comprehensive Westernization on Russian culture. The innovation of this thesis lies in the introduction of “The Sisters of the Cross” into the eastern and western texts of Russian literature and a new interpretation of it through specific text analysis.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Juan Zhang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - East and West Themes in Remizov’s Novel “Sisters of the Cross”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 685
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