Мистическая парадигма в символистской прозе
The Mystical Paradigm in Symbolist Prose

Summary/Abstract: The article examines and describes the distinctive features of the mystical paradigm and the reasons for its increasing significance in Symbolist prose. For comparative purposes, the main body of the work is preceded by a brief introduction that provides a concise historical and literary retrospective of the chosen theme: it outlines the place and distinctive characteristics of mystical poetics in preceding periods, specifically in early modern prose, and touches upon questions of terminology. In the author’s view, the emergence and originality of Modernist Symbolist prose were conditioned both by the immanent processes then taking place within art and by the search for new means of artistic expression — but equally, or even to a greater extent, by the socially significant cultural historical situation, a point already noted by contemporaries. The specificity of the mystical paradigm in Symbolist prose is also examined in comparison with that of Gothic literature, since in both literary traditions this paradigm ranked among the dominant ones. According to the article’s final conclusion, the major transformations in literature at the beginning of the 20th century — above all, the heightened role of mystical poetics in literary creativity — were determined by a crisis in the adjacent fields of the natural sciences and philosophy, as well as by pan European doubts that had arisen in the sphere of worldviews.

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