Journal | Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 3 | 1 | 2023
Research Article | Environments of the Post-Reform Village

Environments of the Post-Reform Village

An Ecocritical Reading of Nekrasov’s Red-Nose Frost

Abstract

Nikolaj Nekrasov’s Moroz, Krasnyj nos (Red-Nose Frost) (1863) focuses on the death and legacy of the peasant Prokl and the suffering and death from exposure of his widow Dar’ja. Some relevant issues from an ecocritical perspective – creatures, natural forces, and the natural world in general – are portrayed as sentient and accorded respect and agency; peasants in the poem are fully enmeshed in the natural world – not insulated or isolated; and Nekrasov displaces onto a peasant Other a connection with the natural world that has been lost by his implied audience of the urban elite.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: May 5, 2023 | Accepted: June 13, 2023 | Published July 17, 2023 | Language: en

Keywords Red-Nose FrostEcocriticismMoroz, Krasnyj nosPeasantsFolkloreNekrasovEcological Indian


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