“Nature” ASA Construct in the Literary Text Landscape: Analytical Aspects

Abstract

Background: The study was conductedonthegroundsofRussianliteratureof20thcentury,howevertheanalyticalmethodssuggestedareuniversalandcanbeappliedto works representing otherliteratures as well. Therationaleofthisarticleliesintheneedtosystematizeanalyticalprocedureswithregardtostructuresandelementsofaliterarytextreferring to natural phenomena, and to portray the wide range of their expressive and descriptive capacity. Objective:The article studies functionsandformsofrepresentationof “nature” asalinguisticconstructinaliterarytext, revealsits capacities in introducing ideas of an epoch, in performing functional yieldwithin the landscape of a literary text and in text modelling. Methods: Typoligical, structural, historical and literature methods were used for the research as they enable comprehensive analysis of a wide range of factual material. Weareintroducingthe “nature” constructintotheresearchtorevealpolyfunctionalityandmultitudeofconnectionsbetweentext fragments about nature and whole literary texts, and extrapolation of their functional and notional models to other texts.Theconstructisasystemofliterarytextfragmentsassociatedwiththenotionof “nature”, whichmaybeeitherextendedorunextendeddependingonthe individual imaginative vision of an author. Findings: Inthecourseofthestudy,worksbyRussianandinternationalscientistsonnature’saesthetics/artisticphysiophilosophy, literaturepoetics, ideologicalandartisticformsofthenaturalcomponent, aswellas the corpus of fictional narrativesof both recognized and young writers of the stated period – the latter was mentioned in the monography “Sense of Nature in the Russian Prose of 1920-1930s” – were examined[5]. This article specifies and updates the period based on the studies dating back to the tur of 20th-21st centuries [17, 18, 19]. Theadditional research undertaken made it possible to create a detailed classification reflecting the functional and notional potential of the “nature” construct in the landscape of an artistic text. Conclusions:The “nature” constructinliteraryworksofvariousperiodsof 20thcenturyfeaturesgeneralcompletenessofphilosophical, socialandpoliticalideasof writings, of authors’ artistic platforms, of modelling principles for a particular text, i.e. serves as a guide to the artistic individuality of an author. Itisshapedundertheimpactofcommondirectiveassumptionsand components, such as method, genre, function, structure, mechanism for interaction with the whole, and others, thus providing it with the ability to be extrapolated to a vast range of other fictional texts.