Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN (Dec 2015)

Ethic / Aesthetic Aspect of Emotions Ecologicity in the Works of Art

  • V I Shakhovsky,
  • P S Volkova

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 31 – 41

Abstract

Read online

The article aims to demonstrate the mechanisms of interpretation of emotional theme depending on how it is actualized in the text. The object of investigation is an ethic / aesthetic aspect, which is the most important element of the text analysis from the point of view of its ecology / non-ecology. Joy as a variation of liberty theme is analyzed in Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Choral,” Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange and S. Kubrick’s movie with the same title. The article shows how the theme of joy (liberty) specified in the instrumental (music) text in its lofty ethical interpretation becomes aggressively dissolute in the literary text and denies ethical values. The authors come to a conclusion that the variation mode of emotions ecologicity depends on the ambivalence of the situations they are actualized in.

Keywords