Abstract
The article deals with one of the urgent problems of modern literature genealogy – the transformation of genres, which is quite significant especially within the context of intermedial interaction between two arts – literature and painting. The transformation of the genre of still life, starting with painting and continuing in literature, is in the focus of the current scientific research. It is mentioned that the evolution of still life painting from flower framing Madonna in the 15 th – 16 th centuries, through raising in the works of Dutch and Flemish artists in the 17 th – 18 th centuries, till Impressionism view on depicting the objects has been changing the understanding of the term itself. The diversity of the meaning of still life as a term of painting genre was caused by different interpretations of the Dutch term “stilleven” in national arts and artistic epochs. This issue is also important to discover whereas to understand the author’s interpretation of a literary work through the use of the term “still life” it is necessary to refer to its origin. Transformed into literary genre still life became verbal and acquired several meanings – actually ekphrasis (description of a still life art canvas); hypothyroidism (verbal still life); the use takes place at the level of the nomenosphere (playing in the titles of works of the term “dead life”) – that are analyzed on the basis of stories (“Still Life with Cats” by Vasyl Trubay, “Military Flyer” by V. Pidmohylny), crime stories (“Still Life with Woodpecker” by T. Robbins, “Still Life with Crows” by D. Preston and L. Child and in “Still Life” by Joy Fielding), novel (“Rosleinrot” by I. Noll). It is emphasized that in literary still life objects become a kind of subject of action, which is in a system of new relationships, whereas it is important not only to depict things in the text, but also to show how they coexist (composition) and how to depict the space where their relationship takes place.
Highlights
The transformation of genres is one of the urgent problems of modern genealogy
It is known that still life as an independent genre of painting formed in the works of Dutch and Flemish artists in the 17th century, but its elements appeared in the 15th – 16th centuries
It was considered as a part of a historical or genre composition and for a long time was connected with religious paintings, framing the figures of Madonna and Christ with flower garlands
Summary
The transformation of genres is one of the urgent problems of modern genealogy. When it comes to intra-literary transformations the works by Yu. For the 17th century, the common features were the special activity of the genre, which for the first time discovered the meaning, significance, role of an object in life and art, the ability to talk to a person as well as about a person’s attitude to the world – life and death.
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