FEMALE IMAGES IN “NORTHLAND STORIES” BY JACK LONDON

Abstract

For the first time the article examines the system of images created by Jack London in “Northland Stories”. In particular, the main features of female images are identified and analyzed. Among a very few American writers Jack London turned to the creation of a gallery of images of female residents of the Arctic in his works, for example in the “Northland Stories”. In his stories written during the difficult transition period of the era there is a clash of completely opposite female types: “the new” and the Victorian woman, “the white” woman and the woman of the natural world.

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• Published: February 1, 2018.

Keywords

• «Северные рассказы»
• Джек Лондон
• художественный образ
• женский образ
• новая женщина
• Арктика
• “Northland Stories”
• Jack London
• literary image
• female image
• new woman
• the Arctic

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