Ontological Motivation of the Myth-Based Novel in Ossetian Literature

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10.2991/tphd-18.2019.51How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ossetian myth-based novel; a type of mythologism; mythopoetic chronotope; biblical motives; utopia; dystopia

Abstract

The article discusses factors contributing to the emergence of the myth-based novel in the Ossetian literature. Based on the analysis of the works by N. Dzhusoyty, M. Bulkaty, B. Gusalov, and S. Khugaev, features structuring the artistic paradigm of the new genre were revealed. The author studies transformations of the epic discourse, reception of a myth in the text structure, interaction of mythic epic and historical principles. Special attention is paid to the constitutive element of the author world-modeling - the mythopoetic chronotope. The apocalyptic component was singled out as a constante of the genre, accentuated reflection of modern catastrophism. The conceptual significance of memory, antinomism of semantics of the creation myth were emphasized. When analyzing motivational aspects of the genre genesis, the unity of two multidirectional beginnings was highlighted: pathos of ethnic self-affirmation, interest in the structures of national myth thinking, ontology of life and openness to the poetics of the cultural intertext, aesthetic experience of the non-national world. This is due to the synthesis of genres, "complication" of the structure of the national myth by biblical allusions, elements of utopia and dystopia. The conclusion about the openness of parameters of the "poetic cosmos" of Ossetian writers to the space of the universe was made. The concept of narrative strategies and genre features of the Ossetian myth-based novel as a developing structure was deepened. The types of artistic mythologism were identified.

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