PERSONAGE SYSTEM IN THE SCOTTISH-AMERICAN EMIGRATIONAL POETRY OF THE XIXTH CENTURY

Abstract

The classification of personages existing in literary criticism and the attempt to adapt it to the system of characters significant for the poetry of Scottish-American emigrants are under consideration of the article. Classification of artistic space given by Prof. M.A. Novikova is taken into consideration. It is based on the binominal (own place and alien place) opposition, center and periphery, border and contact. The diversity of classifications is explained by multifaceted approaches: 1) apatrides, unipatrides, expatriants; 2) religious people (St. Andrew), historical people (Robert Bruce I, 1274-1329), Sir William Wallace, c. 1270-1305), Robert Burns, 1759-1796), population of Scotland’s mountainous regions (Highlanders) / different regions of the USA, characters representing family members (husband, wife, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, friends), natural realias of Scotland and the USA (Grampian Hills, Noran Water, Wood of Clova). The contrastive analysis of the system of personages functioning in the poetic texts of Scotland’s poets and in the poetry of Scottish American poets-emigrants is made.