"THE ETERNAL GOSPEL" IN THE ARTISTIC CHRONOTOPES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The present article studies the status of chronotope as a new category of historical poetics (M. Bakhtin). The author sets up the problems of the analysis of imaginative space and time in the works of Russian classical writers. The Christian symbolism in Dostoevsky's and Turgenev's novels is unfolded; the occurrence of the Gospel and the phenomenon of Christ in Russian literature are emphasized.

Keywords

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Ivan Turgenev
• Mikhail Bakhtin
• categories of historical poetics
• chronotope
• the Gospel
• Christian symbols of name
• space and time