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ARTISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY IN BELARUSIAN PROSE OF THE FIRST THIRD OF 20th CENTURY: IMAGES AND NOTIONS

https://doi.org/10.29235/2524-2369-2018-63-2-221-227

Abstract

The article deals with the national features of personages created on the basis of such traditionally typified characters as “a small man”, “a superfluous man”, “a man in the case”. The paper considers their psychological and mental dominants, peculiarities of the ideas and poetics. It centers on the feature of type that brings together characters of different times, appearances, temperaments and status. Authors’ metaphorical nominations of human types / literary persons are singled out and their role in the typology of characters and aesthetic value are described. From the perspective of the modified world the type-“refrain” of the owner and the authors’ concepts of the collective images are presented. The analysis of literary process during transitional periods shows its tendency to social typification. The criteria for the evaluation of personage as an image and personage as a character are outlined. It is concluded that the influence of classical and national literary traditions in combination with the specific socio-cultural situation on the individual author’s vision of a man makes it possible to regard the artistic anthropology of Belarusian prose of the first third of the twentieth century not only as the distinctive aesthetic phenomenon but perspective for scientific research.

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