Phenomenon of the Crowd in Russian Prose of the 1900-s

Antoshchuk L. K.

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The article deals with the conception of mass and individual consciousness correlation in L.Andreyev's creative work and analyzes the image of the crowd in short stones «it was so» and «The Curse of the Beast*. In his creative work L. Andreyev anticipated the latest discoveries of Western phsychoiogists and sociologists in mutual conditionality of mass and power. The author of the article concludes that the writer's interest in the phenomenon of the crowd indicates actualization of the problem of the normal life arrangement in Russian cultural consciousness at the beginning of the XX-th century.

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Issue: 1, 2001

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)

Rubric: Academic Papers

Pages: 34 — 40

Downloads: 945