FELICITARY META-PLOT IN THE XIX CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The systematic study of the felicitary paradigm of the XIX century Russian literature, including its meta-plot logic, has not yet been undertaken in literary criticism. The purpose of the article is to describe and analyze the key to this paradigm of figurative-semantic invariants, actualized in the works of Russian writers of the XIX century: of A.S. Pushkin, I.A. Goncharov, N.A. Nekrasov, A.P. Chekhov; contextually touched are also ways of embodying the theme of happiness in the works of a wider circle of authors (L.N. Tolstoy, N.G. Chernyshevsky, etc.). Using system-functional, structural-comparative, mythopoetic methods of text analysis, the authors of the article distinguish a number of symbolic invariant oppositions and identities: rationality - irrationality of happiness attainability – unattainability of happiness; happiness – rest; happiness – righteousness; happiness – conciliarism. The study leads to a conclusion that dialogic interreflections of these semantic invariants are due to modifications of the felicitary theme in the artistic worlds of these writers. The main vectors of development of this topic are defined in the article as one of the meta-plots of the literature of that period. General logic of development of the very felicitary meta-plot in the XIX century Russian literature characterized as a movement between the poles of moral-psychological and existential-metaphysical explications.

Keywords

• русская литература
• концепт счастья
• фелицитарная парадигма
• метасюжет
• оппозиция
• инвариант
• смысл
• текст