Conceptual features of I. Turgenev’s artistic method in the aspect of Anglo-American critics in XX century

Abstract

The article includes the consideration of the strategy of Anglo-American literary studies and investigation the significance of I. Turgenev’s personality in the world literary and cultural process from a new perspective. The use of historical-functional and comparative-typological methods represent the original approaches to the reception of I. Turgenev fiction through the allocation of spatial and interlinguistic oppositions in the structure of the artistic chronotope. The strategy of Anglo-American literary criticism was aimed at understanding literary heritage of Turgenev from a new perspective and represented the significance I. Turgenev’s personality in the world literary and cultural process as well. The original approach to the reception of I. Turgenev included the spatial and linguistic oppositions recognized the specifics of the artistic chronotope. Anglo-American critics believed that the spatio- temporal boundaries of the Turgenev`s narrative had been expanded due to speech characteristics. They paid solid attention to the conceptual features of the artistic method of the Russian writer and believed that the I. Turgenev creativity had based not only on one method and had been not exhausted by the potentials of the realistic context to which it had been traditionally ranked. The Anglo-American Slavic study was distinguished by its priority approaches in enlighting the Turgenev`s literary heritage, and the Western scientist researched new semantic artistic shades of literary texts regad less of hermeneutic, structural, and gender approaches. Representatives of existentialism, psychoanalytic criticism, as well as adherents of the mythological school, carried out their philological research. In the artistic world of I. Turgenev Anglo-American researchers revealed an internal contradiction between the ideas of the Russian writer about the self-worth of culture and literature and his real artistic practice, aimed at creating novels with pointed social and political problems.