DYNAMICS OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE RUSSIAN BATTLE ODE IN THE 18TH CENTURY

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the relationship between the researches of of battle ode done by Russian writers and critics of the 18th century. The author of the article analyzes the nature of the works of V. Trediakovsky, M. Lomonosov, M. Sumarokov, A. Shuvalov, A. Volkov, M. Kheraskov, N. Novikov in the framework of research of battle ode. The conceptualization of battle ode genre in the works of these authors illustrates the process of changing the normative-theoretical principles of genre characteristics to the more mobile historical and literary approaches, associated with the development of artistic consciousness of the era from the normative-traditionalist to the individual-creative type, which is an evidence of the change of creative guidelines of the era as a whole. The article is addressed to researchers of the Russian literature of the 18th century, students-philologists.