CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Konstantinova, Svetlana Sergeyevna |
|---|---|
| Title | Remapping the Self and the Other: The image of Russia through the prism of late 18th century British Intellectual history |
| Summary | This study aims to investigate the mechanisms of formation of national consciousness, imagination of the other nations, as well as both strategies and tactics of identification and location of the Self and the Other. The thesis employs an asymmetrical example of an Image of Russia viewed by three British travellers in the late 18th century. It introduces the relevant theoretical approaches of scholarship on travel and travel writing, represents the overall historical context and personal background of the authors. Furthermore, on the basis of the Cambridge school methodology, vocabularies and languages which construct both the British Self and the Russian Other are scrutinized and classification of their main elements is proposed. Finally, the thesis designs an interpretation of the British vision of the historical process in relation to the ideas of man and political order. Looking at the problem from the linguistic-philosophical perspective, the study concludes that the construction of both the Self and the Other are parts of the same process, the process of creation of the modern national consciousness. |
| Supervisor | Kontler, László Aurél; Miller, Alexei Ilyich |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/konstantinova_svetlana.pdf |
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