Onomastic Means of Creating an Artistic Image of the City in Olga Pressitch’s Poetry

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Pages: 346-352
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/ASRY8298

Abstract:

In the article onomastic means of creating an artistic image of the city are investigated in the work of Olga Pressitch, an Ukrainian-Canadian poet. There is determined, that central city in her creativity is the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv. This is typical for emigration poetry as a manifestation of self-identity. The image of the city is portrayed primarily through toponymic names of streets, buildings and so on. It is revealed that in Olga Pressitch’s lyrics world and place names are also presented, that helps to demolish the image of the motherland into the global context.

Keywords:

emigration poetry, the image of the city, topos, urbanonym.

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