The “physiology” of adapting foreign space in sea travelogue of I. Goncharov

The problem of specificity of the sketchbook “Fregat Pallada” (Pallas’ Frigate) written by I. Gorchakov has attracted attention of literary scholars during various periods. However, a research of such aspects as poetics, stylistics, relation to European and Russian genre traditions does not provide an answer to a whole range of important questions. Among important issues is the identification of peculiarities demonstrating perception of the strange, foreign space from the standpoint of physiological reactions of a neophyte voyager. The analysis of the narrative of the given level shows that I. Goncharov, by means of activation of the above mentioned components, initiated a debate with the romantic version of travelogue proceedings. His polemic is based on a number of significant aesthetic priorities intrinsic to the Russian “naturalist school”.