National stereotypes in author’s artistic world: purpose or means?

Abstract

In the article is considered the national stereotype as a means for expressing an artistic idea upon the example of A.P. Chekhov’s story «Daughter of Albion». The key features of stereotype (as a concept which came from sociology and psychology) receive special refraction in the world of a work of art, on the basis of the main character of a stereotype to draw the line between “domestic” and “alien”.