MYTHOLOGICAL TYPE OF ARTISTIC CONVENTION IN THE NOVELS “SCAFFOLD” BY CH. AITMATOV AND “CHRIST LANDED IN GRODNO” BY V. KOROTKEVICH
The functions of a mythological type of artistic convention and the ways of its developing in the novels “Scaffold” by Ch. Aitmatov and “Christ landed in Grodno” by V. Korotkevich are revealed in the given article. The research has been based on the comparative and typological levels that gains currency for determination of literary interconnections. The writers presented relate the logic of their creative works to biblical plots and refer to mythological convention. It helps to exceed the limits of the method of social realism in the last third of the XXth century and extends the philosophical, moral and ethical subject matters of the novels. Mythological convention in the novels studied can be considered as one of the characteristics of postrealism.
Keywords: artistic convention, mythological type of convention, comparative and typological analysis, literary interconnections, biblical motives, mythological figurativeness, neomythologism, postrealism
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Issue: 11, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 11
Rubric: HISTORICAL POTENTIALS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF CONVENTIONALITY
Pages: 89 — 94
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