ROMAN-ESSAY BY V. MIKHAILOV «ONE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH ...» IN THE CONTEXT OF RECEPTIVE AESTHETICS

Abstract

Philology as a social institution for ensuring communication plays an important role in modern society and in the modern educational space. The present article deals with the problem of studying the writer's creative personality from the standpoint of writer's reception as one of the trends in the development of the classical heritage of Russian culture and its modern interpretation, the definition of historical and cultural experience, as well as the function of influencing the modern reader. Of particular interest is the author's view of the creative personality, the literary tradition. The authors of the article pay attention to the disclosure of the role of the reader, analyze the motivation, reader's interest and the appearance of the reader, who acts as a recipient, on the one hand, and as an interpreter of a literary text, on the other. The emphasis is on the study of the novel-essay of the Kazakh writer, poet and publicist V. Mikhailov about M. Lermontov – «One between heaven and earth ...» in the context of its assessment by modern Russian literary critics. This kind of study has not been undertaken before, which may indicate the novelty of the research material.
 A comparative approach to the study of Russian literature, Russian prose of Kazakhstan, among other things, contributes to a new reading of literary texts from the point of view of the opposition «one's own» – «alien» in the context of the dialogue of cultures. For the basis the research takes the concept of receptive aesthetics as a dialogue between the text and the reader. Receptive aesthetics is aimed at studying reader's literary experience. The neoclassical model of scientific research is based on a special type of scientific rationality, on the possible synthesis of diverse cognitive practices. Reading a work of art is to study the comprehension of the meaning inherent in a particular text. Many new facts forgotten in the 20th century are introduced into scientific circulation by V. Mikhailov about the image of M. Lermontov and his image is revealed as of an artistic genius, a herald and harbinger of many events. It was concluded that his works are of interest to the contemporary readers as well. The meaning of an artistic (including poetic) text is concretized in a dialogue with the reader.