Artistic World Model as a Subject of Scientific Research

Abstract

Interdisciplinary studies often refer to such general categories as world model. This article is an analytical review of the artistic world model as a problematic issue of modern literary criticism. The author studied the essential content of the term model in different areas of scientific knowledge, as well as the relationship between the concepts of worldview and world model, artistic worldview and scientific worldview, etc., as well as the role of the author’s personality in their artistic world model and principles of world modeling, the latter being a popular scientific subject. The article is an attempt to systematize the latest publications on these issues. The methodology included structural-descriptive and descriptive-functional approaches. The analysis shows that the concept of world model is a process of reproducing external reality by a subject who builds its model in line with their own value systems, cultural background, and historical environment. An artistic worldview (model) focuses on all things figurative and emotional while scientific worldview is accurate, verified, and factual. The artistic world model broadcasts the author’s view. It has a special chronotope and a deep emotional impact on its reader. The uniqueness of the artistic world model largely depends on the genre. The principles of world modeling rely on metaphor and associations.