title: Selma Lagerlöf ’s travelogue on Russia: fairy tale, revelation or propaganda?
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metadata.value: Lisovskaya, Polina
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metadata.value: 2018-08-07T09:06:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T09:06:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Polina Lisovskaya. Selma Lagerlöf ’s travelogue on Russia: fairy tale, revelation or propaganda? Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 138– 148.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14686
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Speeches constitute unique and poorly studied part of Selma Lagerlöf´s legacy.
  The article analyzes the speech delivered at the ceremonial meeting of the Swedish
  Academy on December 20, 1926, where Lagerlöf chose to talk about her experiences
  during the journey to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, which she had made in 1912 accompanied
  by a close friend of hers Valborg Olander. The publication of the speech in
  a major Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” omitted a larger part of the speech’s text,
  namely the very description of the trip to Russia, leaving space for the political message
  only, which followed in the second half. The only unabridged version of the speech was
  published in 1945. The latest publication of the speech in Sweden is dated 2016 and
  received mixed reviews, as Selma Lagerlöf ’s characterization of Russia in it borders to
  some extent on propaganda. Selma Lagerlöf renders her impressions of her visit to both
  Saint Petersburg and Moscow and her encounters with Russian people, culture, art,
  theatre, and religiosity, as well as with social and political conditions. Among these impressions
  a key role is given to the visit to Tretyakov Gallery, where she got mesmerized
  by one of the paintings, namely by Ilya Repins “Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan on
  November 16th, 1581”. This stark impression allowed her to shape the speech’s rhetoric
  as a revelation while herself trying on a role that of a seeress. The article though studies
  Lagerlöf ’s speech about Russia primarily as a literary work: in terms of composition,
  artistic techniques and images. Like anything else Selma Lagerlöf wrote, her address to
  the Swedish Academy members follows a thoroughly planned narrative idea. To reach
  her thesis Lagerlöf makes use of a variety of tropes, such as metaphor, allegory, parable
  and ekphrasis.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Selma Lagerlöf
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: travelogue
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ekphrasis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nobel family
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Knut Hamsun
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ylia Repin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ivan the Terrible
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Selma Lagerlöf ’s travelogue on Russia: fairy tale, revelation or propaganda?
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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