Ivanova N. Literary landscape and mental space of author in Russian prose of the 19th century.

The dissertation is dedicated to study of specificity of literary landscape as a means of explication of mental space of author in Russian prose of the 19th century. The work determines features of mental space of author and means of its embodiment in pictures of outworld. It also reveals the most representative for authors' world view binary oppositions and means of their realization in the creative work of authors of specified period. The work establishes types, forms, dynamics and features of poetics of landscape in Russian prose of the 19th century. Conclusions are made regarding distinctness of artistic picture of the world in terms of reflection of mental space of author. The dissertation characterizes individual and authorial strategies in creation of images of outworld, it reveals interaction of romanticism and realism, traditions and innovations, individual and common, different artistic systems in literary landscape. The work shows influence of mental space of author on genre and stylistic peculiarities of Russian prose of the 19th century.