The poetry of cold in Yakut prose of the early twentieth century: cold as the border of the Yakut world

Abstract

In recent years, an active appeal to the discourse of cold as a scientific problem has been observed in science, which is partly due to some extent to the transformation of the worldview of modern man, partly to the awareness of the fragility of the world balance in a globalising space. At the same time, the lack of development of the methodology, which consists in the absence of a conceptual, informational base, separate tools, creates difficulties in implementation this problem. In this regard, the topic presented in this article undoubtedly has great scientific potential and novelty in the context of the problem of geo-culture of the North. The purpose of the study is to study the concept of cold in the context of the geo-cultural landscape of Yakutia as a semantic structure, which manifests itself in the constancy of images, universals with cultural, historical, mental community and united in a single artistic system. The author pays special attention to the reception of the concept of cold in the aspect of binary positions of one's own and another's, where one's own is represented by an associative series of native, close, bright, safe, and participates in the formation of unique characteristics of the national world. The main attention is paid to the initial properties of cold, which form the borders of the Yakut world and participating in the design of a specific mental picture of Sakha, which is quite clearly reflected in the images of the initiating heroes of P.A. Oyunsky. In addition, the subject of the study is also the specifics of cold and its role in the actualisation of the unique geo-cultural quality of the city of Yakutsk as the coldest, most distant city, “the city on the edge”. The methods used in the article were systemic, structural research methods. Results. The study of this concept in the literary aspect helps to identify the peculiarities of the individual style, the author's position, and the peculiarities of constructing a national picture of the world.