Chronotope of literary-critical judgement (based on books of I.I. Vinogradov)

Abstract

The phenomenon of the undefined status of literary criticism leads to a lack of clarity in its terminological apparatus. In particular, there is no unity on the issue of what to consider as the plot of a literary-critical utterance, as well as how to determine its motivational structure, or to identify a set of semantic fields. The subject of this research is the literary category of the chronotope, which is used to analyze the poetics of a critical text. This study was carried out on the basis of the collections of I.I. Vinogradov (1930-2015) “Like bread and water. Art in Our Life” (1963), “Art. True. Realism” (1975), “On a living track. Spiritual Searches of Russian Classics” (1987) with the involvement of textual criticism, biographical data and evidence of the historical context. Despite the artificiality of dividing the chronotope as dominant uniting texts, each of its parts is consistently characterized in order to accomplish the most complete presentation. Space, not in physical, but in textual terms, is understood as a set of factors that bind articles together at a formal level (genre format, heading complexes, typography design). The author's image is viewed as multifunctional: it builds an internal connection and a storyline. The functions of the chronological aspect are also shown: responsibility for the historical, cultural and biographical contexts, dating, meaningful transformation of articles. The conclusion deals with the possibility of using a complex view of the totality of chronotopic characteristics of judgment and the methodological preferences of the critic as a whole.