SELF-TRANSFORMATION AS A DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF HEROOF A META-MODERN WORK

Abstract

The article proposes to consider self-transcendence - the phenomenon of devoting oneself to a socially significant purpose - as a distinctive feature of the hero of English literary works within the framework of the course of metamodernism; to make a comparison the ideals of postmodernism and metamodernism reflected in literary works; show the importance of biography and pseudo-autobiography genres in the historical and cultural process. With the help of analysis and synthesis method, the authors compare socio-historical processes with their literary mapping and come to the conclusion that it is the change of consciousness - a return to integrity and syncretism - that provides the basis for self-transcendence as an understanding and realization of oneself in the world.

Keywords

• metamodernism
• Jojo Moyes
• Claire North
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• blue flower
• self-transcendence