A brief theoretical overview of imagological literary studies

Abstract

One of the leading research strategies for studying the images of countries is
imagology. In a broad sense, this concept can be interpreted as knowledge about the image of another
country and people. The main sources of this field are culture, literature, language and folklore.
Imagology has acquired an interdisciplinary character, thus being of great importance in literary
studies. Literary imagology studies the issue of the literary depiction of other peoples, it investigates
how images enter the consciousness of society in various types of discourse, in particular in fiction,
and then are transformed into stereotypical images and form the nation's perception of itself and
other peoples. In modern conditions, the study of the peculiarities of perception of the country image
in literature is of great interest. So, it can be inferred that imagology is one of the new methods of
studying literature. Not only the country depicted is under research, but also the context of the image,
the position of the authors