The article is focused on the emotional perception of space and ways of its designation in Feodor Sologub’s creative works. The base of this perception is so-called “claustrophobic” experience which is understood as a way of spatial self-identification of the subject which connects ontologic, existential, mental and subject realities. This phenomenon provokes a number of specific feelings (discomfort, excitement, horror; feeling of closeness, weight, constraint; losing the orientation in the world and self-control). “Literary claustrophobia” at various levels of the text is the key model for F. Sologub’s poetics.
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