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Feiger Feind, edles Volk. Russische Karikaturen im Krieg von 1812
The author scrutinizes visual images of emeny and images of heroes created by Russian artists during the 1812 war. The research objects are colloqual metaphors, figures of speech, proverbs and ethnic stereotypes. Such approach allows to reveal new cognitive notions and trends of national imagionations.
The article is devoted to the problem of reception of visual messages in the early XIXth Russia. The author explores the satirical images of enemy, national and civil heroes and the 1812 war to reveal the meaning of elite messages and perception it in the mass culture
Dans les livres de Roland Barthes, une interpénétration des discours scientifique et littéraire se produit au niveau de thèmes, d’intuitions, de métaphores. Cet ouvrage analyse en particulier les problèmes de l’image visuelle et le couple conceptuel continu/discontinu
In Russia’s cultural memory, the idea that Napoleon’s forces were crushed in a war with Russian people is widespread. Leo Tolstoy popularized this concept of a “people’s war”. Stalinist court historians refined this concept with Marxist notions. To this day, this concept to sources and ideology. A reassessment is still pending.