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HOME AND HOMELESSNESS IN “SEMINARY SKETCHES” BY N.G. POMYALOVSKYHOME AND HOMELESSNESS IN “SEMINARY SKETCHES” BY N.G. POMYALOVSKY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2009. Issue 4 (82). P. 139-142

The concepts of Home and Homelessness, which are traditional for Russian literature and culture, are explored in the context of «Seminary Sketches» by N.G. Pomyalovsky. The “Seminary Sketches” central characters of Home and Anti-Home, the embodiment of which is the Seminary (Bursa), were the subject of reflection. Special emphasis was placed on an analysis of contraposition of Home as secure private space and Anti-Home as alien and dangerous one.

Keywords: N.G. Pomyalovsky, “Seminary Sketches”, home, anti-home, homelessness

HOME IN «SEMINARY SKETCHES» BY N. G. POMYALOVSKY AND «THE SHKID REPUBLIC» BY G. BELYKH AND L. PANTELEEV // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 8 (98). P. 102-106

The concept of Home, which is traditional for Russian literature and culture, is explored in the context of «Seminary Sketches» by N. G. Pomyalovsky and «The Shkid Republic» by G. Belykh and L. Panteleev. The Seminary (Bursa) in «Seminary Sketches» by N. G. Pomyalovsky has attributes of an Anti-Home-Hell, in which its inhabitants perish. By contrast to this, a character of the state-owned house Shkid in «The Shkid Republic» by G. Belykh and L. Panteleev idtransforms from «Republic», Home-State to Home-Nest which gives its pupils a better start in life.

Keywords: living space, home, anti-home, homelessness, home-nest, home-state