Танатологические мотивы в художественной литературе. Введение в литературоведческую танатологию

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Roman Krasilnikov Thanatological motifs in literature (Introduction to philological thanatology)

The monography is a comprehensive research of the functioning of thanatological motifs in the fiction. Referring to the rich tradition of studying the problem of death in the humanitarian thanatology and literary criticism, the author identifies a specific area of knowledge – literary thanatology designed to identify and systematize thanatological elements in the literature. A supporting point for literary elaborations in this sphere is the theory of motive, which allows to focus on the role of one component of the text in organization of the work, the author’s creative system and even historically conditioned artistic paradigm. The logic of the study is dictated by the semiotic approach to motivic analysis: we study the semantics, the syntactic and the pragmatic of thanatological elements. In the context of these semiotic areas the features of representation of thanatological motives, their participation in organization of the plot, in creating of characters, interacting with different art paradigms, aesthetic categories, etc. are considered.

The book is addressed to philologists, philosophers and anyone interested in questions of literary criticism and humanitarian thanatology.