title: Nikolay Gumilyov’s toponymical epithets
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metadata.value: Fedotova, Kseniia S.
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metadata.value: 2022-08-10T17:01:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-08-10T17:01:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Fedotova K. S. Nikolay Gumilyov’s toponymical epithets. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (1): 169–180.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37325
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article analyzes functions and semantics of epithets pertaining to geographical names
  (topopoetonyms) in Gumilyov’s poems. Among 206 proper names and 77 epithets are definitions containing emotional assessment: crazy Africa (“Love Island”), kingly Niger (“Niger”)
  and color characteristics: golden Baghdad (“Pilgrim”), green Siberia (“Sahara”) prevailed. The
  epithet in genitival constructions usually refers to the main word of the nominal group: Tsargrad’s
  golden gate (“Sweden”), green waves of the Euphrates (“Adam’s Dream”), but in the periphrases
  it can be given to a geographical name: the queen of boundless Rus (i. e. Moscow,
  “Muzhik”). The analysis of the most common definitions (distant, remote; ancient; mysterious)
  showed that the epithet in the poetic text conveys several dictionary meanings, and its semantics
  are befogged by contextual connotations. Thus, the epithet distant to the topopoetonym
  Siberia (“Modernity”) express the idea of remoteness both in time and space, while the image
  of Siberia opens up a special space of poetic world — a place where the past continues in the
  present. In the poem “Galla”, the idea of opposing different cultures, is conveyed through the
  image of remote and wild Russia, as it is presented through the voice of a teacher of Islam. The
  definition ancient (“Words to Davydov’s music”, “Rhodes”) in Gumilyov’s poems also creates
  a temporal perspective of poetic description, has a positive connotation referring to high importance
  of the object designated by the topopoetonym, while the epithet mysterious (e. g. Rus,
  the poem “Old estates”) has an additional meaning — ‘associated with sacrament’.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epithet
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. Gumilyov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic poetics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: name semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: poetonym
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Nikolay Gumilyov’s toponymical epithets
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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