The Notion “Sense Of Nature” In Russian Literature: Methodological Aspects, Artistic Practice

Abstract

The research is based on the material of works in Philology, Philosophy, Theory and History of culture of the XIX-XX centuries and on Russian literature. This article is relevant as there is a demand in complex interdisciplinary approach to studying the portrayal of nature which can be successfully carried out by the use of methodological support of the notion “sense of nature”. This notion is characterized as an intellectually-artistic module which conveys a naturphilosophical view and the artistic individuality of the writer. The goal of the article is to study methodological aspects of the above-mentioned notion. The article focuses on its multifunctional character and universality of a research strategy regarding the literature and culture of different eras. Forms of artistic implementation of the sense of nature are reviewed on the corpus of works of Russian literature of the XX century. The historical and literary, typological, and structural methods used in the research allow conducting a complex study of vast theoretical material and literary texts. The results are the following: the conducted research has enabled to clarify the characteristics of the notion “sense of nature” and relevant forms of its realization in the literary text. It is concluded that the notion “sense of nature” possesses the system of informative aspects and settings towards the artistic practice which allows characterizing the reflection of nature in the literary text as integrity of philosophical, aesthetic, social, natural science ideas and the artistic individuality of the author.