КЛАССИЧЕСКИЕ И НЕКЛАССИЧЕСКИЕ СТРУКТУРЫ ДРАМЫ

Abstract

The article attempts to apply a structural approach to the existence and development of the dramatic genre. The au-thor proceeds from the position of two types of structures – classical (order structure) and non-classical (chaos struc-ture). The constant transformation of one structure into another throughout history demonstrates a certain stable mechanism of change, when the centripetal movements of the classical structure give way to centrifugal ones, which causes the classical structure to collapse. In the future, it opens, expands and transforms. Then this mechanism goes in reverse order. Thus, artistic culture, in particular, dramatic (as well as social, historical) processes of compression and expansion, closeness and openness take place over two large cycles. This is a constant «drawing» of the movement of cycles from the classical structure (order) to the non-classical (chaos) and becomes the key to unraveling the existence of the dramatic genre for large periods, perhaps for the period of the entire civilization, showing the «curve» of the course and transformations of the dramatic genre, which does not fit into the linear paradigm. At the same time, this «curve» also testifies to the transformations of social and historical structures. In connection with all this, it is possible to put forward some hypotheses that can be confirmed in related sciences – quantum physics, philosophy, etc. In gen-eral, this indicates the existence of some kind of supra-historical law or meta-law that operates in the universe. In order to understand the movement of genres, in this case, the dramatic, it is not enough to use only a historical descriptive approach. A kind of permanent, universal law of transformations of the existence and movement of the genre gives a structural approach