LIGHT AND DARKNESS: THE SPECIFICS OF THE NORTHERN URBAN LANDSCAPEIN YAKUT PROSE

Abstract

The relevance of the article is dictated by the need to study an unexplored topic in the Yakut science - the local urban text. The geocultural landscape of Yakutsk is considered as a segment within which the unique quality of the national world is most clearly revealed. Based on the artistic material of the Yakut prose of the twentieth century, an attempt is made to form a methodology for analyzing the Yakut local urban text, which can be original because of the authenticity and content of the object of research - the northernmost, farthest and coldest city. The scientific novelty of the article is obvious: the understanding of the city as a semantic structure, which is manifested in the constancy of images, universals that have a cultural, historical, mental community and are united in a single artistic system, was not undertaken as an independent study. The study of the geopoetic landscape of Yakutsk, which has not received detailed development in the Yakut literary studies to this day, is justified by the idea of the city as a single artistic and cultural system that can claim to be self-sufficient by its specificity against the background of other local texts. The conclusions outlined in this article can be used in the development of problems of the cultural landscape, ethno-cultural criteria of identity in the conditions of modernity, which are becoming the most relevant in recent years in Russian science.